Peter Kleiweg <kleiweg@let.rug.nl> writes:
> If tbl is an object of class 'dist', you can do this:
>
> a <- sammon(tbl, k=3)
>
>
> But you can't do this:
>
> b <- isoMDS(tbl, k=3)
>
>
> Wouldn't it be sensible to have identical interfaces to sammon()
> and isoMDS() ?
>
> I think all that would be needed is to change this:
>
> isoMDS <- function(d, y=cmdscale(d, 2), maxit=50, trace=TRUE)
> {
>
> ...into this:
>
> isoMDS <- function(d, y, k=2, maxit=50, trace=TRUE)
> {
> if(missing(y)) y <- cmdscale(d, k=k)
Actually, it should work if you simply define the arguments as
isoMDS <- function(d, y=cmdscale(d, k), k=2, maxit=50, trace=TRUE)
Default arguments can refer to each other and even to items calculated
inside the function.
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