nmds.min {ecodist}R Documentation

Find minimum stress configuration

Description

Finds minimum stress configuration from output of nmds()

Usage

nmds.min(x)

Arguments

x output from nmds()

Value

Configuration of minimum stress ordination (dataframe of coordinates).

Author(s)

Sarah Goslee, Sarah.Goslee@ars.usda.gov

See Also

nmds

Examples


## Not run: 
# Example of multivariate analysis using built-in iris dataset
data(iris)
iris.md <- distance(iris[,1:4], "mahal")

# Minimum-stress 2-dimensional nonmetric multidimensional scaling configuration
iris.nmds <- nmds(iris.md)
iris.nmin <- nmds.min(iris.nmds)

# Plot NMDS result with symbols denoting species
plot(iris.nmin, pch=as.numeric(iris[,5]))
## End(Not run)

# A full example is available in the NMDS 
# section of the main help file for ecodist.

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