Articles • grip

Development documentation (0.2.0.9001). For the released package, use the CRAN manual and vignettes. In CRAN 0.2.0, metric.mds() performs classical scaling; this development version minimizes raw distance stress.

Start here

Getting Started with grip
Finding your way around grip
Graph gallery: SGD metric MDS
Graph gallery

Choose and understand layouts

Choosing and evaluating a layout
Layouts with meaningful edge lengths
Metric MDS: SGD, SMACOF, and stress weighting
Animating metric MDS: paraboloid and saddle
Higher-dimensional metric MDS for 3D visualization
Embedding Fermat distances on a paraboloid, saddle and helix
Sparse SGD for larger graphs
Tracing and Diagnosing Layouts

Representation and interpretation (website only)

What does a 3D embedding preserve?
Local embeddings versus subsets of a global embedding

Case study and exploration

A biological network: HMP/U01
Interactive exploration with gripui

Complete results and further examples

Graph gallery: multiscale GRIP
Graph gallery: further examples
Metric MDS: complete experiment
Sparse metric MDS: complete experiment
Comparing graph layout engines