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A student of mine wants to use R to do some nonmetric multidimensional scaling. According to the R FAQ, there's a package called pcurve that computes multidimensional scaling solutions, but I was not able to locate it the contrib page (I am a Windows user with R version 1.4.1). Can anyone tell me whether it is possible to do nonmetric multidimensional scaling with R, and if so, how? John

Dear R list Would anyone be able to tell me whether it is possible to do "enhanced multidimensional scaling" (enhanced MDS) in R? In other words, something that goes beyond "cmdscale" by iteratively improving the fit between observed dissimilarities and inter-object distances, using the KYST algorithm (Kruskal, 1964). I have found several implementations of non-metric MDS

Hi Does anyone know if there's a package I can use to do Multidimensional scaling ? Thank's EJ -.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.- r-help mailing list -- Read http://www.ci.tuwien.ac.at/~hornik/R/R-FAQ.html Send "info", "help", or "[un]subscribe" (in the "body", not the subject !) To: r-help-request at

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

I have a dissimilarity dataset with the form: 1 1 dissimilarity value 1 2 ... 1 3 1 4 2 2 2 3 2 4 ... I would like to do nonmetric multidimensional scaling with this data, but I am having trouble using this format. I would like to either find a function that accepts this format or find a way to easily convert this format to a matrix for use with existing functions. Thanks!

The vegan package has non-metric multidimensional scaling in addition to a variety of other ordination techniques. Regards, Helen Mills Poulos Yale University

I sent a query to R-Help about the availability of nonmetric multidimensional scaling (MDS) algorithms in R. I would like to thank Tony Rossini, Jonathan Baron, Sundar Dorai-Raj, and Brian Ripley for helpful replies. The gist of the replies is that isoMDS in the MASS library provides Kruskal's method for nonmetric MDS, sammon in the MASS library provides Sammon's nonlinear mapping method

Dear UserR's, The smacof package (see also our PsychoR repository on http://r-forge.r-project.org/projects/psychor/) is uploaded on CRAN. This package provides the following approaches of multidimensional scaling (MDS) based on stress minimization by means of majorization (smacof): - Simple smacof on symmetric dissimilarity matrices - smacof for rectangular matrices (unfolding models) -

Hi, I am currently working on some data and feel that NMDS would return an excellent result. With my current data set however I have been experiencing some problems and cannot carry out metaMDS. I have tried with a few smaller data sets which I created for practice sake and this has worked fine. I think it is the set up of my data set that is causing me trouble. I have 18 columns and 18 rows,

Dear R-list members, I need an help with the Multidimensional Scaling analysis (MDS). So far I used the cmdscale() command in R, but I did not get the perceptual map I would love to see, and I would like to know if it is possible to get it using R, and if yes how. I also had a look to the functions isoMDS() and sammoc() but with no luck. I summarize the experiment I performed, and I would ask you

Hi, I just encountered what I thought was strange behavior in MDS. However, it turned out that the mistake was mine. The lesson learned from my mistake is that one should plot on a square pane when plotting results of an MDS. Not doing so can be very misleading. Follow the example of an equilateral triangle below to see what I mean. I hope this helps others to avoid this kind of headache.

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

Hello everyone, I'm working with R 2.4.1 on a PC running with XP. Trying to run isoMDS as follows: Gquad.mat <- Gquads[4:10] # extracts only the metric data variables Gquad.dist <- dist(Gquad.mat) Gquad.mds <- isoMDS(Gquad.dist) plot(Gquad.mds$points, type = "n") text(Gquad.mds$points, labels = as.character(Gquads$Quadname), cex = .5) The data.frame

Hello! Very often one can hear that MDS usually ends with two-dimensional solution. Of course, there are methods, like Scree-test (proposed by Kruskal and Wish, 1981), to determine optimal number of dimensions. However, I am trying to find references to this two-dimensional gold-standard. Can anyone point me to authors which explicitly states that two-dimensions are typical and easiest to

Hi there, I'm trying to do a regression experiment on a multidimensional dataset where both x and y in the model are multidimensional vectors. I'm using R version 2.9.2, updated packages, on a Linux box. I've tried gausspr(), ksvm() and rvm(), and the models are computed fine, but I'm always getting the same error message when I try to use predict(): "Error in

I want to create a MDS plot with pairwise Fst values derived from a population genetics project. My Fst values are in a tab-delimited file (lower triangle only) that I view with Excel. When I use the cmdscale command I get the message: Error in cmdscale(x) : Distances must be result of dist or a square matrix In addition: Warning messages: 1: "^" not meaningful for factors in:

Hello, I would like to perform an NMDS on the following: I have two independent variables, which are sites and treatments. I have 6 sites which are peatlands. I collected 5 replicates (at the same time) from each of the sites. I used each of the replicates in a treatment. There were 4 treatments. 2 were controls and the other two were a simulated 30 day drought and a simulated 60 day drought.

Hello, Your way is much better than to mess with the dim attribute, like I did. But, "If you can create a data.frame or matrix that has the indices" Actually, it must be a matrix, indices can't be of type list. A way to avoid loops/apply altogether, and much faster, is the one creating K3 (K is the result from the op.) n <- 20 t2 <- system.time({ K2 <-

I am moving this to r-devel. The problem and solution below posted on r-help could have been a bit slicker if %*% worked with multidimensional arrays multiplying them so that if the first arg is a multidimensional array it is mulitplied along the last dimension (and first dimension for the second arg). Then one could have written: Tbar <- tarray %*% t(wt) / rep(wti, each = 9) which is a bit

Hi, anyone knows about any functions in R can get multidimensional integration not over a multidimensional rectangle (not adapt). For example, I tried the following function f(x,n)=x^n/n! phi.fun<-function(x,n) { if (n==1) { x }else{ integrate(phi.fun, lower=0, upper=x, n=n-1)$value } } I could get f(4,2)=4^2/2!=8, but failed in f(4,3)=4^3/3! Thanks Best, Lynette