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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...
Other analyses
A further bubble plot you might like to try on the Fal nMDS is to superimpose abiotic variables f...
Species analyses
The final step in the Basic MVA wizard is to break down the dissimilarities (or distances) betwee...
MDS & PCA ordinations
The Basic MVA wizard next produces non-metric MDS (nMDS) plots in 2-d and 3-d, together with thei...
CLUSTER analyses
The Basic MVA wizards then run a cluster analysis, again on the respective resemblance matrices. ...
ANOSIM tests
The wizard then runs, for both biotic and abiotic data, Analyse>ANOSIM>(Model: One-way - A) & (Fa...
Resemblance calculation
Resemblance is the general term in PRIMER used to cover (dis)similarity or distance coefficients....