R help - May 2003 - Principal coordinates analysis

Dear all,


Does anyone know how to run Principal Coordinates Analysis (PCoA) from a
squared euclidean dissimilarity matrix with R ?
Thanks,


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?cmdscale.

which is what Gower called `Principal Coordinate Analysis':  I vaguely 
recall there are other definitions.

On Fri, 9 May 2003, Dowkiw, Arnaud wrote:
> Does anyone know how to run Principal Coordinates Analysis (PCoA) from a
> squared euclidean dissimilarity matrix with R ?

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