What techniques exists in R to visualize a “distance matrix”?

Question

I wish to present a distance matrix in an article I am writing, and I am looking for good visualization for it.

So far I came across balloon plots (I used it here, b

Answer 1

In the book "Numerical Ecology" by Borcard et al. 2011 they used a function called *coldiss.r * you can find it here: http://ichthyology.usm.edu/courses/multivariate/coldiss.R

it color codes the distances and even orders the records by dissimilarity.

another good package would be the seriation package.

Reference: Borcard, D., Gillet, F. & Legendre, P. (2011) Numerical Ecology with R. Springer.