The eurodist dataset (my favorite for mds) is malformed. Instead of a standard distance matrix, it's a data frame. The rownames have gotten 'bumped' to a new anonymous dimension "X". It's possible to fix the data, but it messes up a lot of example code out there.
X Athens Barcelona Brussels Calais ... 1 Athens 0 3313 2963 3175 2 Barcelona 3313 0 1318 1326 3 Brussels 2963 1318 0 204 4 Calais 3175 1326 204 0 5 Cherbourg 3339 1294 583 460 6 Cologne 2762 1498 206 409 ... Best, -Justin -- Justin Donaldson PhD Candidate, Informatics Indiana University http://www.scwn.net aim: iujjd twitter: jjdonald [[alternative HTML version deleted]] ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel