[R] for loop question Documentation and its application for calculating euclidean distance on MDS ordination axis scores

[stephen sefick]

?for doesn't return anything help.search("for") doesn't return anything-
Is the for loop so prevelant in computer programing that the
documentation is implicit or is R paradigm to discourage the use of
the for loop.

I will post data probably tonight, but here is my problem.  I have
preformed an MDS on a set of data.  I have the scores of the four axes
that
are the optimal solution.  I want to calculate the euclidean distance
between time steps of the ordination.  My thought is to use a for
loop-
calculate distance march to april then calculate the distance from
april to may  ...  Is this the proper way of going about this

              axis1    axis2    axis3      axis4
march            3         4          6            3
april               5         7          8            5
may               7         3         1             9
.....

thanks

Stephen

The data is at home and I will post it once I have fooled around with
the for loop - if I can not figure it out, but this is the general set
up of the problem
-- 
Stephen Sefick
Research Scientist
Southeastern Natural Sciences Academy

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