Re: [R] previous.best in metaMDS

2009-10-07 Thread Gavin Simpson
On Tue, 2009-10-06 at 11:03 +0200, Kim Vanselow wrote: > Dear R-community, dear Jari Oksanen! > I use metaMDS (package vegan) to calculate NMDS. > In a lot of papers I read that it is recommended to use previous best > solutions as a new starting configuration to get better results and to avoid >

[R] previous.best in metaMDS

2009-10-06 Thread Kim Vanselow
Dear R-community, dear Jari Oksanen! I use metaMDS (package vegan) to calculate NMDS. In a lot of papers I read that it is recommended to use previous best solutions as a new starting configuration to get better results and to avoid local minima. On the help page I found that a previous.best-comma