Have you looked into "multidimensional scaling"? There are lots of variants, many of which are in R packages.
Bill Dunlap Spotfire, TIBCO Software wdunlap tibco.com > -----Original Message----- > From: r-help-boun...@r-project.org [mailto:r-help-boun...@r-project.org] On > Behalf > Of Rory Wilson > Sent: Saturday, May 18, 2013 8:45 AM > To: R help > Subject: [R] distances between entities > > Hello all, please forgive my lack of knowledge, but I am somewhat new to R > and would > be very grateful for some help. I have tried some searches, but am not even > quite sure > what to search for. I will describe my problem: > I have a number of nodes (or entities) and pairwise (Euclidean) distances > for SOME of the > pairs of nodes, but I do not know where in the space my nodes lie. Is there a > package of > some kind that would allow me to generate a best-possible picture of the > geometry of > the nodes, i.e. a guess as to where most of them are in the space (relative > to each other). > I know it is impossible to get the full picture (since I have incomplete > information), but a > kind of minimum-error guess? > Please let me know if you need more information, or if you suspect you have > an answer > to my query. > Thank you very much, > Rory > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
