`metric.mds()` computes the current metric-MDS baseline using `stats::cmdscale()` on the graph shortest-path distance matrix and returns a common `"grip_gmds_layout"` result.
Arguments
- prepared
Optional all-pairs prepared object returned by [prepare.graph.geodesic.mds()] or [prepare.geodesic.kk()]. Edge-only objects from [prepare.edge.kk()] are intentionally rejected because metric MDS requires a graph distance matrix.
- edges
Two-column edge matrix used when `prepared` is omitted.
- n
Number of vertices used when `prepared` is omitted.
- adj_list
Optional adjacency list used when `prepared` is omitted.
- weight_list
Optional edge-weight list parallel to `adj_list`.
- edge_weights
Optional positive edge weights parallel to `edges`.
- dim
Target embedding dimension. Values greater than 3 are supported for GMDS and edge-KK workflows.
- add, eig
Passed to `stats::cmdscale()`.
- diagnostics
If `TRUE`, attach the common GMDS diagnostic panel. If `FALSE` and raw graph inputs are supplied, `metric.mds()` uses a distance-matrix-only preparation path and does not build the full all-pairs path cache.
- scale_mode
Scale policy for edge, path, and chord targets: `"profiled"` fits one scalar for each diagnostic family, `"identity"` uses scale one, and `"user"` uses the corresponding supplied scale.
- distance_floor
Positive floor for relative residuals.
- edge_length_epsilon
Small stabilizer for fixed-path embedded lengths.
- band_quantiles
Two quantiles splitting graph distances into short, mid, and long bands.