It depends on what you mean? If you would like a goodness of fit of your ordination to your distance matrix then this is doable and I would suggest that you look at the labdsv tutorial - http://ecology.msu.montana.edu/labdsv/R/
On Thu, Jan 29, 2009 at 6:50 PM, Tomek Wlodarski <tomek.wlodar...@gmail.com> wrote: > Dear R developers and users! > > I have calculated metric MDS by cmdscale from matrix of distances > (dissimilarities). > I would like to ask you how can I estimate how well this new mapping > represents characteristic features of my data set? > Thank you for any suggestions. > Best, > > tomek > > ______________________________________________ > R-help@r-project.org mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html > and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. > -- Stephen Sefick Let's not spend our time and resources thinking about things that are so little or so large that all they really do for us is puff us up and make us feel like gods. We are mammals, and have not exhausted the annoying little problems of being mammals. -K. Mullis ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.