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Hello, I want to make a fuzzy classification from a dissimilarity matrix (calculated with daisy from package 'cluster'). I have tried to use fanny (package cluster) but I have the same problems than described in a previous message (http://tolstoy.newcastle.edu.au/R/help/05/05/4546.html) i.e. it always gives me two clusters in the results (even if k is different from 2) with the same

Hi, Using Vegan package I was wondering if there's a way to use a distance matrix as an input for adonis (or any of the other similar hypothesis testing functions) instead of the usual species by sample table. Working in the field of microbial ecology, what I'm trying to do is to overcome the problem of having to use discrete units such as species or OTUs, which are problematic in