dist {mva}

R Documentation

Distance Matrix Computation

Description

This function computes and returns the distance matrix computed by using the specified distance measure to compute the distances between the rows of x.

Usage

dist(x, method="euclidian", diag=FALSE)

print.dist(dist.obj)

Arguments

x	a matrix or (data frame). Distances between the rows of x will be computed.
method	the distance measure to be used. This must be one of "euclidian", "maximum", "manhattan" or "canberra". Any unambiguous substring can be given.
diag	a logical value indicating whether the diagonal of the distance matrix should be included in the result.

Value

The lower triangle of the distance matrix (with or without its diagonal as specified by diag) and stored by columns in a single vector. The vector has the attributes "size", "diag", "labels" and class equal to "dist".

References

Mardia, K. V., J. T. Kent and J. M. Bibby (1979). Multivariate Analysis, London: Academic Press.

See Also

hclust.

Examples

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