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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

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

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; I am working with the similarity matrix below and I would like to plot a two-dimensional MDS solution such as each point in the plot has a label. This is what I did: data <- read.table('c:/multivariate/mds/colour.txt',header=FALSE) similarity <- as.dist(data) distance <- 1-similarity result.nmds <- nmds(distance) plot(result.nmds) (nmds and plot.nmds as defined at

Hi, I am working with a species-by-trait .csv file (columns=traits, rows=species) and get the following warning message when trying to plot results of both metaMDS and pcoa:  "Warning message: In ordiplot(x, choices = choices, type = type, display = display,  :   Species scores not available" I am using a Gower's transformation in both procedures within the metaMDS or pcoa

Hi, I'm trying to use isoMDS to project a directed graph to 2-dim vectors, but I got an error. #here is the code to create the graph using igraph package and run isoMDS on it. library(igraph) library(MASS) g<-make_graph(c(1,2, 2,3, 2,4, 3,4, 4,5, 5,6, 3,6, 1,6, 2,5),directed=TRUE) dist<-distances(g, mode="out") loc<-isoMDS(dist) # below is content of the dist matrix

In applying multidimensional scaling, it seems to me that sometimes the underlying dimensionality of the matrix is 1. However I found a case where cmdscale failed when I tried k=1. Here it is: m<-matrix( c(.5,.81,.23,.47,.61, .19,.5,.06,.17,.28, .77,.94,.5,.74,.85, .53,.83,.26,.5,.64, .39,.72,.15,.36,.5), nrow=5) # BTW I think cmdscale uses only the lower triangle--how to enter only # that

I'm having trouble with the ordisurf function in the vegan package. I have created an ordination plot (cmdscale) of 60 samples based on Bray-Curtis dissimilarities, and would like to overlay various soil edaphic characteristics as possible clues to the clustering I observe in my plot. However, I find that ordisurf creates a surface on the plot that is a perfect, even gradient - and

Hi. I know matrices that use distances between places works fine when using cmdscale. However, what about matricies such as: A B C D E A 0 1 23 12 9 B 1 0 10 12 3 C 23 10 0 23 4 D 12 12 23 0 21 E 9 3 4 21 0 i.e. matrices which do not represent physical distances between places (as they would not make sense for real distances such as the one above)

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

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:

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

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

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

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 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

kalish at psy.uwa.edu.au wrote: > > I'm a newbie at R, and can't get libraries to really work. > I did this: > > library(help = mva) > cancor Canonical Correlations > cmdscale Classical (Metric) Multidimensional Scaling > dist Distance Matrix Computation > hclust Hierarchical Clustering

Hi, I need to run a PCoA (PCO) for a data set wich has both positive and negative values for variables. I  could not find any distancecoefficient other than euclidean distace running for the data set. Are there any other coefficient works with negtive values.Also I cannot get summary out put (the eigen values) for PCO as for PCA.   Thanks. Dilshan [[alternative HTML version deleted]]

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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