I just asked a similar question yesterday except I was using
correlation-based distances rather than Euclidean. Check
out that thread:
https://www.stat.math.ethz.ch/pipermail/r-help/2006-March/087782.html
On 3/1/06, Matt Sakals <msakals at interchange.ubc.ca>
wrote:> Dear all,
> I have point data from an irregular survey. Starting with a random
> point, I would like to select as many other points as possible, so long
> as the minimum inter-point distance is never below a given threshold.
>
> I would appreciate help in finding a nice solution. Thankyou in advance.
> matt
>
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