[R] Getting variable names from as.matrix

Hi all,

I'm running a multidimensional scaling model on data that are first transformed into a similarity matrix using the program daisy in the cluster package. If I already provide the similarity matrix, the plotting routine will give me the variable names on the plot itself. But, it seems that when I use the daisy program to create the similarity matrix, I can't get the program to give me variable names on the plot. Here is the input

## Sammon's MDS

country.demog <- read.csv("~/Desktop/country.demog.csv")

## daisy requires loading the cluster package. It will calculate
standardized Eculidean distances

country.demog.dist <- daisy(country.demog,metric="euclidean",stand=TRUE)

## The following line calculates the ordinal MDS

country.mds <- sammon(dist(country.demog.dist), k=2)

## The following lines create the MDS map using country names. It also
places horizontal and vertical lines for reference.

plot(country.mds$points,type="n")
text(country.mds$points, labels = as.character(country.demog$country)) abline(h=0)
abline(v=0)

Thanks for any advice,

David

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