[R] distance matrix to coordinate format for spatial stats

[Prof Brian Ripley]

You can't do this uniquely (shifts, rotations and reflection do not change 
the distances), but cmdscale() will produce one reconstruction.

On Thu, 22 Nov 2007, Jesse D Lecy wrote:

> Greetings,
>
> I would like to use some of the spatial statistics functions in R, but I am having trouble entering data.  My data is already in a distance matrix format, not an X Y coordinate format (each Xij cell in the matrix represens the distance from point i to j).  Does anyone know of a way to convert a distance matrix to a ppp object in spatstat, or an X,Y coordinate system for other packages?
>
> Thanks,
> Jesse

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