similar to: similarity matrix conversion to dissimilarity

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 haven't been an R lister for a bit, but I hope to enlist someone's help here. I think this is a simple question, so I hope the answer is not much trouble. Can you please respond directly to this email address in addition to the list (if responding to the list is warranted)? I have a histogram and I want to see if the data fit a Poisson distribution. How do I do this? It is

R-help folks: Thanks in the past for your help. I have another question that I hope has a simple answer. I have searched the R home pages and the R-help archives with no hits. How can I cluster data in R using UPGMA? I am not subscribed to the list (can't keep up with all the traffic!), so I would appreciate it if you could email directly to me (or to the list and to me). Thanks, Tom

Hello, I would like to use my own dissimilarity matrix in a PAM clustering with method "pam" (cluster package) instead of a dissimilarity matrix created by daisy. I read data from a file containing the dissimilarity values using "read.csv". This creates a matrix (alternatively: an array or vector) which is not accepted by "pam": A call

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

Dear List, is there an elegant (or even not elegant) way how to transform dissimilarity or distance matrix A (or, in general, arbitrary symmetrical matrix) by transposition of rows and columns into a form closest to "block diagonal" matrix B? The matrix A is adjusted the following way A[A<epsilon] <-0 #(epsilon is given "small" number) B: (in its ideal form)

Hello Stephen, I am happy that you help me. Thanks a million. It is a good feeling that you confirm my assumption that dsvdis is not able to deal with missing data, because it says me that I am not completely incapable. Okay now I have the problem what to do. I used this function ´cause there is an option to weight columns differently what I haven´t found in other functions. But now I

Hi all, I'm trying to perform a hierarchical clustering on some dissimilarity data that I have but the data matrix I have already contains the dissimilarity values. These values are calculated using a separate program. The dissimilarity matrix in complete with no missing values but the hclust, and agnes routines require it in the form produced by daisy or dist. Is there any of converting

Dear List, This is Elaine, a postgraduate studying in bird distributions in East Asia. I want to calculate Simpson dissimilarity index, based on a presence/absence matrix of bird species in islands in East Asia. (matrix row: 36 islands/matrix column: species ID) (R package vegan to make NMDS and R package betapart) In most papers using vegan for NMDS and betapart for dissimilarity

Hi I have a large dataset, containing a wide range of binary variables. I would like first of all to compute a jaccard matrix, then do a PCA on this matrix, so that I finally can do a hierarchical clustering on the principal components. My problem is, that I don't know how to compute the jaccard dissimilarity matrix in R? Which package to use, and so on... Can anybody help me? Alternatively

Hi, I'm trying to use a similarity matrix (triangular) as input for pam() or fanny() clustering algorithms. The problem is that this algorithms can only accept a dissimilarity matrix, normally generated by daisy(). However, daisy only accept 'data matrix or dataframe. Dissimilarities will be computed between the rows of x'. Is there any way to say to that your data are already a

Is there a way of extracting mean distance or dissimilarity for a given strata from a 'dist' or 'dissimilarity' object, e.g. extract mean distances for each species in Anderson's iris data? data(iris) iris.dist<-dist(iris[,1:4]) then what? Mikkel Grum, PhD Genetic Diversity Scientist International Plant Genetic Resources Institute (IPGRI) Sub-Saharan Africa Group ***

Hi, According to daisy function from cluster documentation, it can compute dissimilarity when NA (missing) value(s) is present. http://stat.ethz.ch/R-manual/R-devel/library/cluster/html/daisy.html But why when I tried this code library(cluster) x <- c(1.115,NA,NA,0.971,NA) y <- c(NA,1.006,NA,NA,0.645) df <- as.data.frame(rbind(x,y)) daisy(df,metric="gower") It gave this

Dear David, you asked this question a while ago on the R mailing list and got no answer. I have the same problem and was wondering if you had found a solution Cheers Loic Loic Thibaut, PhD candidate, ARC Centre of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies, School of Marine Biology, James Cook University, Townsville, Qld, 4811, Australia. Tel + 61 747 815 735, Fax: + 61 747 251 570, email:

Hi, I have a set of nodes and a dissimilarity matrix for them, as well as a csv file in which the diss matrix has been converted to [node_1, node_2, dissimilarity] format. I would like to visualize this as a graph in Euclidean space (that is, similar nodes clumped together in clusters), rather than the seriation visualization given by dissplot(). I am using Network WorkBench for my

Hello R-user community! I am running R 2.7.0 on a Power Book (Tiger). (I am still R and statistics beginner) Presently I try to run the function metaMDS (vegan) using an existing dissimilarity-matrix. As I would like to start with this matrix I thought I could just give the matrix using the x= -argument Test<-metaMDS(x=Dist.Gower) Fehler in inherits(comm, "dist") :

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, I already have a dissimilarity matrix and I am submitting the results to the elbow.obj method to get an optimal number of clusters. Am I reading the below output correctly that I should have 17 clusters? code: top150 <- sampleset[1:150,] {cluster1 <- daisy(top150 , metric = c("gower") , stand = TRUE , type = list(symm

R users, Does anybody know how to convert a square matrix of distances (X^2 distances, actually) into an object of class "dissimilarity" so that the cluster package can used it? Thanks. Jord? L?pez Unv. Aut?noma de Barcelona -.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.- r-help mailing list -- Read http://www.ci.tuwien.ac.at/~hornik/R/R-FAQ.html Send

Dear All, I have a dissimilarity matrix which I happily convert to a distance object by running: X <- as.dist(Y) and I can happily now run either hclust(X) or agnes(X). So that the various bits of output are labelled correctly I would dearly like to be able to give names to the columns and rows of X, as would happen if I ran: mydata<-read.table("clipboard",header=T)