On Wed, 2009-08-12 at 20:26 -0400, Justin Donaldson wrote: > 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
What version of R, platform, loaded packages etc? This is not what I see on Linux, 2.9.1-patched r49104. > class(eurodist) [1] "dist" > sessionInfo() R version 2.9.1 Patched (2009-08-07 r49104) x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu locale: LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8;LC_NUMERIC=C;LC_TIME=en_US.UTF-8;LC_COLLATE=en_US.UTF-8; LC_MONETARY=C;LC_MESSAGES=en_US.UTF-8;LC_PAPER=en_US.UTF-8;LC_NAME=C; LC_ADDRESS=C;LC_TELEPHONE=C;LC_MEASUREMENT=en_US.UTF-8;LC_IDENTIFICATION=C attached base packages: [1] stats graphics grDevices utils datasets methods base loaded via a namespace (and not attached): [1] tools_2.9.1 Have you tried this in a clean session to see if it persists there? If you can reproduce this in a clean session with an up-to-date R or R-Devel then send details of your R back to the list for further investigation. HTH G -- %~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~% Dr. Gavin Simpson [t] +44 (0)20 7679 0522 ECRC, UCL Geography, [f] +44 (0)20 7679 0565 Pearson Building, [e] gavin.simpsonATNOSPAMucl.ac.uk Gower Street, London [w] http://www.ucl.ac.uk/~ucfagls/ UK. WC1E 6BT. [w] http://www.freshwaters.org.uk %~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~% ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
