Re: [R] distance coefficient for amatrix with ngative valus

2011-10-06 Thread R. Michael Weylandt
for each > variable as it will not give the summary out put or loadings as we get for > pca. > Thanks. > From: R. Michael Weylandt > To: dilshan benaragama ; r-help > > Sent: Monday, October 3, 2011 11:05:19 PM > Subject: Re: [R] distance coefficient for amatrix with ngativ

Re: [R] distance coefficient for amatrix with ngative valus

2011-10-04 Thread R. Michael Weylandt
You are, of course, entirely correct and, once again, I tip my hat to the erudition of those who comment on this list. My initial formulation, for a distance on a normed space inherited from the norm, stands trivially, but as you rightly point out, I'm excluding many interesting and possibly useful

Re: [R] distance coefficient for amatrix with ngative valus

2011-10-03 Thread Rolf Turner
On 04/10/11 17:05, R. Michael Weylandt wrote: More importantly, as I said in my initial response, any distance metric worth its salt is translation invariant. Point of order, Mr. Chairman. (This is really *toadally* off topic; my apologies, but I couldn't resist --- I trained as a pure mat

Re: [R] distance coefficient for amatrix with ngative valus

2011-10-03 Thread R. Michael Weylandt
ut that's a discussion for another time and place -- but the function still returns a valid dist object for both d1 and d2. > > Thanks, > From: R. Michael Weylandt > To: dilshan benaragama ; r-help > You will note that I include the r-help list on each email on this chain

Re: [R] distance coefficient for amatrix with ngative valus

2011-10-03 Thread R. Michael Weylandt
dt > To: dilshan benaragama ; r-help > > Sent: Monday, October 3, 2011 3:27:53 PM > Subject: Re: [R] distance coefficient for amatrix with ngative valus > > One order of the usual coming right up! > > 1 course of "Why does XXX not work for you?" a la francaise, where

Re: [R] distance coefficient for amatrix with ngative valus

2011-10-03 Thread R. Michael Weylandt
One order of the usual coming right up! 1 course of "Why does XXX not work for you?" a la francaise, where XXX is, in your case, the Euclidean distance. Specifically, any metric worth its salt (in a normed space) satisfies dist(a,b) = dist(a+c,b+c) so why are negative values a problem?... 2 side

[R] distance coefficient for amatrix with ngative valus

2011-10-03 Thread dilshan benaragama
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 (th