Message-ID: <C99C1EDB.15A41%jari.oksanen@oulu.fi>
Date: 2011-03-08T15:58:51Z
From: Jari Oksanen
Subject: metaMDS vs. isoMDS for NMDS
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTi=k4x94RmZMUgfi9DEe4S8CZ1XORbUfrk2emziQ@mail.gmail.com>
On 8/03/11 17:05 PM, "Stephen LeDuc" <sdleduc at gmail.com> wrote:
> Dear R listserve members,
>
> Does anyone have any thoughts or advice regarding using "metaMDS" versus
> "isoMDS" functions for conducing NMDS in R? Is one clearly preferred over
> another? Please respond directly to me at the email below. Any thoughts
> would be most appreciated! Best regards, Steve LeDuc
>
Stephen,
You should give the packages where you have these functions. However,
metaMDS (of vegan) is a wrapper to isoMDS (of MASS). Basically they are the
same, except that vegan adds some support wrapping over isoMDS.
Cheers, Jari Oksanen