[R] non-metric multidimensional scaling

2013-01-30 Thread Myra Juckers
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 treatmen

Re: [R] Non-metric multidimensional scaling (NMDS) help

2010-01-12 Thread Gavin Simpson
On Tue, 2010-01-12 at 10:28 -0800, kellys17 wrote: > 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 se

[R] Non-metric multidimensional scaling (NMDS) help

2010-01-12 Thread kellys17
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.

Re: [R] Non-metric multidimensional scaling

2007-09-20 Thread Silvia Lomascolo
>Error in isoMDS(Gquad.dist) : zero or negative distance between objects >179 and 180. >How can I handle this, is it valid to add 0.5 to every element in the >distance matrix or is someother alternative more appropriate? This means that your objects 179 and 180 are identical so just remove one

[R] Non-metric multidimensional scaling

2007-09-20 Thread Friedman, Steven
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$points, type = "n") text(Gquad.mds$p