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Dear List: I have a question regarding an MDS procedure that I am accustomed to using. I have searched around the archives a bit and the help doc and still need a little assistance. The package isoMDS is what I need to perform the non-metric scaling, but I am working with similarity matrices, not dissimilarities. The question may end up being resolved simply. Here is a bit of substantive

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 <-

Hi all, I'm trying to perform an MDS of some data that I have. When I use cmdscale everything is fine and I get some interesting results however, the tends to be low. What I wnat to do is compare this with the Non-Metric MDS using isoMDS or sammon. However, when I try using these I get the following message. Error in isoMDS(x.dist) : zero or negative distance between objects 2 and 4

Dear useRs, last week I asked you about a problem related to isoMDS. It turned out that in my case isoMDS was trapped. Nonetheless, I still have some problems with other data sets. Therefore I would like to know if anyone here has experience with how well isoMDS performs in comparison to other non-metric MDS routines, like Minissa. I have the feeling that for large data sets with a high

Hi, I'm trying to do a non-metric multidimensional scaling using isoMDS. However, I have some '0' distances in my data, and I'm not sure how to deal with them. I'd rather not drop rows from the original data, as I am comparing several datasets (morphology and molecular data) for the same individuals, and it's interesting to see how much morphological variation can be

Dear All, I am in the somewhat unfortunate position of having to reproduce the results previously obtained from (non-metric?) MDS on a "kinship" matrix using Statistica. A kinship matrix measures affinity between groups, and has its maximum values on the diagonal. Apparently, starting with a nxn kinship matrix, all it was needed to do was to feed it to Statistica flagging that the

Hi We have a few questions regarding the use of the "isoMDS" function. When we run "isoMDS" function using 60,000 x 60,000 data matrix, we get the following error message: ------------------------------------ cmdscale(d, k) : invalid value of 'n' Calls: isoMDS -> cmdscale ------------------------------------ We checked the source code of "cmdscale" and

Hi, I am looking for the best multidimensional configuration for my data (47*47 distance matrix). I ve tried classical metric (cmdscale) and non metric MDS (isoMDS, nmds) but it is now difficult to choose the best solution because of the uncertainties in the definitions of the "stress" function. So, same problem, several questions : 1. Statistical consideration : With

Hello all- I'm having some problems with memory consumption under R. I've tried increasing the appropriate memory values, but it keeps asking for more; I've even upped the heap size to 600M, significantly eating into swap (256M real, 500+M swap). So, performance slows to a crawl. What I'm trying to do is run isoMDS on a 4000x4000 matrix. My first question is, how much memory

Hello everyone, I have a question on isoMDS. My data set (of vegetation) with 210 samples is in this way: Rotfoehrenau Lavendelweidenau Silberweidenau .... 067_Breg.7 0 2 0 .... 071_Dona.4 0 2 6 .... ... I want to do an isoMDS-analysis with the dissimilarity index

Dear all, I'm trying to get a two dimensional embedding of some data using different meythods, among which princomp(), cmds(), sammon() and isoMDS(). I have a problem with sammon() because the coordinates I get are all equal to NA. What does it mean? Why the method fails in finding the coordinates? Can I do anything to get some meaningful results? Thank you very much Domenico

I have a dataframe like this (toy example): x y z "a" "a" 0 "a" "b" 1 "a" "c" 2 "b" "a" .9 "b" "b" 0 "b" "c" 1.3 "c" "a" 2.2 "c" "b" 1.1 "c" "c" 0 The observations are from a matrix like this: c 2.2 1.1 0.0 b 0.9 0.0

Hi, this is a second try to post this to the R-help mailing list. The first one has been rejected because of a too large attachment. Now I ask this without attaching the data. If you want to reproduce the results, please contact me directly to get the data. (First mail, rejected:) > Attached there is a 149*149 dissimilarity matrix; it is a file obtained by >

Dear all, I'm analyzing a dataset (A) of 400 cases with 11 binary variables. Unfortunately, several (actually a lot) of cases are identical. NA are also present. I want to to plot distances between cases. For this, I obtained a distance matrix by dist(A, method="binary"). I then analyzed the obtained distance via Principal coordinate analysis with cmdscale(). Results are fine.

Hello, We are trying to find a function to compute "stress" in our multidimensional scaling analysis of a dissimilarity matrix. We've used "dist()" to create the matrix and "cmdscale()" for the scaling. In order to determine the number of dimensions we would like to plot stress vs. dimensions. However, we cannot find a pre-made command. It seems that other

Sorry to bother you kind folks again with my questions. I am trying to learn as much as I can about all this, and I will admit that I don't have the proper background, but I hope that someone can at least point me in the correct direction. I have created a test matrix for what I want to do: s1 s2 s3 s4 s5 s1 10 5 0 8 7 s2 5 10 0 0 5 s3 0 0 10 0 0 s4 8 0 0 10 0 s5 7

I'm working on a project related to document clustering. I know that R has clustering algorithms such as clara, but only supports two distance metrics: euclidian and manhattan, which are not very useful for clustering documents. I was wondering how easy it would be to extend the clustering package in R to support other distance metrics, such as cosine distance, or if there was an API for

i know cmdscale and isoMDS inR can do classical and non-metric MDS.but i want to konw if there is packages can carry on "individual differences scaling" and "multidimensional analysis og preference"?both method are important one,but i can not find any clue on how to do it using R. anyone can help? thank you!

Hi, For example: I built a half matrix "w" using a daisy(x, metric = c("euclidean")) http://www.nabble.com/file/p25211016/1.jpg And next I transformed this matrix "w" using isoMDS function, for example isoMDS(w, k=2) and as result I got: http://www.nabble.com/file/p25211016/2.jpg And now I have two questions: 1. If number in matrix w[2, 1] (= 0.41538462) match

I am starting with a matrix in which rows are vegetation plots and columns are various characteristics including ID# and elevation. I removed elevation and ID columns to avoid having those characteristics influence the distances between points which I calculated using the "dist" command. The resulting distance file was then used in isoMDS. What I want to know is whether I can