On Thu, 11 Sep 2003 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I am really new into R, and I would like to know if it is possible to load a > distance file matrix (lower-triangular) into R and then do a PCA or > Multidimensional Scaling over that matrix.
No, yes, as PCA is not defined for a distance matrix but MDS is. -- Brian D. Ripley, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Professor of Applied Statistics, http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/~ripley/ University of Oxford, Tel: +44 1865 272861 (self) 1 South Parks Road, +44 1865 272866 (PA) Oxford OX1 3TG, UK Fax: +44 1865 272595 ______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list https://www.stat.math.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help
