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I work on Windows, R version 2.4.1. I'm very new with R! I am trying to build a classification tree using rpart but, although the matrix has 108 variables, the program builds a tree with only one split using one variable! I know it is probable that only one variable is informative, but I think it's unlikely. I was wondering if someone can help me identify if I'm doing something

Dear Users,I have two matrices A=15*365 and B=1*365. i want to calculate "Euclidean Distance" between these matrices in such a way that i should have euclidean distance of matrix B against all the columns of matrix A. More precisely, first i want euclidean dist. of column 1 of A against B, then column 2 against B, 3rd column of A against B and so on.is there a way in r to do it?your help

Hi Stefan, Thank you very much for pointing me to the wordspace package. It does the job a bit faster than my C code but is 100 times more convenient. By the way, since the tcrossprod function in the Matrix package is so fast, the Euclidean distance can be computed very fast: euc_dist <- function(m) {mtm <- Matrix::tcrossprod(m); sq <- rowSums(m*m);? sqrt(outer(sq,sq,"+") -

Hello, I am working with a matrix of multilocus genotypes for ~180 individual snail samples, with substantial missing data. I am trying to calculate the pairwise genetic distance between individuals using the stats package 'dist' function, using euclidean distance. I took a subset of this dataset (3 samples x 3 loci) to test how euclidean distance is calculated: 3x3 subset used

the first line of dist() says if (!is.na(pmatch(method, "euclidian"))) shouldn't that be "euclidean" ? --------------------- R version 2.5.1 (2007-06-27) i486-pc-linux-gnu locale:

Hello, everybody, I hope somebody could help me with a dist() function. I have a data frame of size 2*4087 (col*row), where col corresponds to the treatment and rows are species, values are Hellinger distances, I should reconstruct a distance matrix with a dist() function. I know that "euclidean" method should be used. When I type: dist(dframe,"euclidean") it gives me a

Hello everyone! metaMDS(cm, distance = "euclidean", k = 2, trymax = 50, autotransform =TRUE, trace = 1, plot = T) (cm is a similarity matrix, in which values are positive integers or 0) I use this command to run NMDS on my matrix "cm". But the stress is very high after analysis. About 14. Actually, there is no improvment comparing with using isoMDS.

Hello, I am trying to do a multi-dimensional scaling of the World Bank's quality of governance indicators for the Balkan region. I am having trouble labelling my plot. Could some kind person help me out. How do I set the attribute Label by a variable (say, "Code")? At present I get this: >qog.dist<-dist(Balkans.data, method = "euclidean", diag = FALSE, upper =

Vince Carey found this (thank you!). Since the fix to the problem is not entirely obvious, I post this to R-devel as RFC: help(dist) says: >> Missing values are allowed, and are excluded from all computations >> involving the rows within which they occur. If some columns are >> excluded in calculating a Euclidean, Manhattan or Canberra >> distance, the sum is

I've been unable to find a R package that provides the means of performing Clarke & Ainsworth's BIO-ENV procedure or something comparable. Briefly, they describe a method for comparing two separate sample ordinations, one from species data and the second from environmental data. The analysis includes selection of the 'best' subset of environmental variables for explaining

> 3x3 subset used > Locus1 Locus2 Locus3 > Samp1 GG <NA> GG > Samp2 AG CA GA > Samp3 AG CA GG > > The euclidean distance function is defined as: sqrt(sum((x_i - y_i)^2)) My > assumption was that the difference between

Hi guys, I've been using the kmeans and hclust functions for some time now and was wondering if I could specify a custom metric when passing my data frame into hclust as a distance matrix. Actually, kmeans doesn't even take a distance matrix; it takes the data frame directly. I was wondering if there's a way or if there's a package that lets you create distance matrices from

Hi, I've been using R for a while now but I've got a problem with metaMDS (in the vegan package) that I can't quite figure out. I have a set of proportion data (from 0-1, rows sum to 1) that I apply metaMDS to using the command: nMDS.set=metaMDS(sqrt(test.set),distance="euclidean",k=3,zerodist="add",autotransform=FALSE) I am using a squared-chord distance

Hi all, I have a matrix of about 100.000?x 4?that I need?to classify using euclidean metric. For that I am using dist?or daisy functions, but I am afraid that the message: Error in vector("double", length) : vector size specified is too large, means too much lines. Can anyone suggest me how should I analyse this matrix? Thanks in advance, Diogo Andr? Alagador MNCN,CSIC, Madrid, Spain

Dear all: I want to ask question about "binary" distance measure. As far as I know, there are many binary distance measures,eg, binary Jarcad distance, binary euclidean distance, and binary Bray-Curtis distance,etc. It is even more confusing because many have more than one name. So , I wan to know what the definite name of the binary distance measure of the "dist" function

hi, i have just begun using R, so please bear with me. i am trying to use cmdscale and display the result. i read the data using read.table(), calculate the proximity matrix using dist() and the display the result using the cmdscale(). this is very fine. in addition, i want the display to distinguish between two classes of records in my data. i have my data records marked as "1" or

This message is in MIME format. The first part should be readable text, while the remaining parts are likely unreadable without MIME-aware tools. Send mail to mime@docserver.cac.washington.edu for more info. ---559023410-162216788-916833047=:29339 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII On my R installation (0.62.4) there is no dist() function, so I attach one possibility. It provides

Hi Ryszard! There is a dist function in R. It's in the mva package. You can set the kind of distance that you want. Thanks, Erin mailto:hodgess at gator.uhd.edu

Dear R users; Is it possible to get the row and column number of a particular entry in a dist object? Let's say that I want to find the position of the value 1.1837 (the last entry on the dist object below), that is [6,3]. Can I get those values without transforming the object to a matrix?, i.e. working with the dist object only. 1 2 3 2 0.23935864

> BDR> You will need to call it something else: dist is a clone of an S > BDR> function, and dist(X, "manhattan") is well-established usage. > > one could still imagine an extra Y argument such that > dist(X, Y=myY, method="euclidean") > and dist(X, "euclidean", Y=myY) > would work > one could even make it such that > both