Re: [R] Multidimensional scalling

2009-02-01 Thread stephen sefick
#this is all assuming you want Bray-Curtis distances, but there are other distances involved. library(vegan) library(labdsv) dis.bc <- vegdist(your.data) bc4d.nmds <- nmds(dis.bc,4) ordcomp(bc4d.nmds,dis.bc,dim=4) On Sat, Jan 31, 2009 at 6:53 AM, Titus von der Malsburg wrote: > Hi Tomek, have a

Re: [R] Multidimensional scalling

2009-01-31 Thread Titus von der Malsburg
Hi Tomek, have a look at R News, Volume 3/3, December 2003. There you find an article about different algorithms that are available in R. Titus On Sat, Jan 31, 2009 at 01:36:29AM +0100, Tomek Wlodarski wrote: > now I see that cmdscale is not the best option for my problem > So I am wondering i

Re: [R] Multidimensional scalling

2009-01-31 Thread Tomek Wlodarski
Dear Stephen, Thanks a lot! now I see that cmdscale is not the best option for my problem So I am wondering if you can advice me other method of MDS or different approach to my problem: I have matrix which describes "distances" between object and I would like to visualise this matrix onto 2D in su

Re: [R] Multidimensional scalling

2009-01-29 Thread stephen sefick
It depends on what you mean? If you would like a goodness of fit of your ordination to your distance matrix then this is doable and I would suggest that you look at the labdsv tutorial - http://ecology.msu.montana.edu/labdsv/R/ On Thu, Jan 29, 2009 at 6:50 PM, Tomek Wlodarski wrote: > Dear R d

[R] Multidimensional scalling

2009-01-29 Thread Tomek Wlodarski
Dear R developers and users! I have calculated metric MDS by cmdscale from matrix of distances (dissimilarities). I would like to ask you how can I estimate how well this new mapping represents characteristic features of my data set? Thank you for any suggestions. Best, tomek ___