Re: [R] Calculation time of isoMDS and the optimal number of dimensions

2010-05-26 Thread Gavin Simpson
On Tue, 2010-05-25 at 19:00 +0200, Joris Meys wrote: Dear all, I'm running a set of nonparametric MDS analyses, using a wrapper for isoMDS, on a 800x800 distance matrix. I noticed that setting the parameter k to larger numbers seriously increases the calculation time. Actually, with k=10 it

Re: [R] Calculation time of isoMDS and the optimal number of dimensions

2010-05-26 Thread Joris Meys
Hi Michael, thanks for your answer. Indeed, with a 100x100 matrix it runs even pretty fast with k=30. But as with a lot of things in R, there is a disproportionate rise in the calculation time once you exceed a certain size limit on your matrices. In the end, it ran about 8 hours for my complete

Re: [R] Calculation time of isoMDS and the optimal number of dimensions

2010-05-26 Thread Joris Meys
Hi Gavin, thank you for the answer. I am aware of the fact that with nMDS it's about the configuration, and that's exactly my problem: the configuration changes pretty much when I increase the number of dimensions. As I am trying to go from a CAT(0) space of trees (see Billera et al on geodesic

Re: [R] Calculation time of isoMDS and the optimal number of dimensions

2010-05-26 Thread Gavin Simpson
On Wed, 2010-05-26 at 14:25 +0200, Joris Meys wrote: Hi Gavin, thank you for the answer. I am aware of the fact that with nMDS it's about the configuration, and that's exactly my problem: the configuration changes pretty much when I increase the number of dimensions. As I am trying to go

[R] Calculation time of isoMDS and the optimal number of dimensions

2010-05-25 Thread Joris Meys
Dear all, I'm running a set of nonparametric MDS analyses, using a wrapper for isoMDS, on a 800x800 distance matrix. I noticed that setting the parameter k to larger numbers seriously increases the calculation time. Actually, with k=10 it calculates already longer than for k=2 and k=5 together.

Re: [R] Calculation time of isoMDS and the optimal number of dimensions

2010-05-25 Thread Michael Denslow
Hi Joris, On Tue, May 25, 2010 at 1:00 PM, Joris Meys jorism...@gmail.com wrote: Dear all, I'm running a set of nonparametric MDS analyses, using a wrapper for isoMDS, on a 800x800 distance matrix. I noticed that setting the parameter k to larger numbers seriously increases the calculation