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(Tasmanian meiofauna)
This study concerns meiofaunal abundances from a two-way layout of samples on a sand-flat in Eagl...
Missing or zero values?
The final option is whether a blank cell in the Excel sheet should be interpreted as a Missing va...
Wizard for input data
File>Open gives the same Open dialog box as previously but, importantly, the drop down menu on th...
(Ekofisk abiotic data)
For the 39 sites around the Ekofisk oil-field, environmental data is available on concentrations ...
Opening Excel files
Usually, rectangular data matrices of variables by samples, or samples by variables, will initial...
Properties
Edit>Properties produces the Sample Data Properties dialog box, seen earlier, where information a...
Opening PRIMER files
File>Open>(File name: Ekofisk macrofauna counts.pri)>Open will read in the existing Ekofisk speci...
Saving, closing & opening a workspace
Typically, a single workspace would encompass one or more inter-connected data sets which are ana...
Undo in the workspace
Another new feature to PRIMER 7 is the option Undo Workspace which back-tracks for the workspace ...
Saving data, renaming & deleting
The data sheet can now be saved (as can any item created in the workspace) from the File menu. F...
Cut, copying & pasting
The Edit>Cut and Edit>Copy operations send part of a worksheet (or its factors/indicators) to the...
Moving & sorting rows/cols
Movement of rows or columns uses both highlighting and the cursor position. Rows (or columns) to ...
Deleting & inserting rows/cols
In addition to attaching labels, the Edit menu allows a range of other edit functions on the data...
Labelling samples & variables
At this point only the default row (variables V1, V2, …) and column labels (samples S1, S2, …) ha...
Opening the PRIMER 7 desktop
Start the program by (double)-clicking on the desktop or task bar PRIMER 7 icon , giving the win...
Primer file types
Whether the extensions *.pri, *.xls(x) etc. display, or not, is a function of your Windows set-up...
Getting the examples
The installation and subsequent run of Help>Get Examples V7 will have placed a number of sub-dire...
Install and Uninstall
You will need to run Help>Install Licence at the point at which you have purchased an installatio...
Updates
The Help>About PRIMER menu item will tell you: which maintenance version number you are currently...
Primer 7 trial software
A trial version of PRIMER 7 is freely available, which is downloadable from the PRIMER-e web site...