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lower: Lower-triangular matrix

Description

Converts a symmetric distance matrix to a column order lower triangular matrix.

Usage

lower(m)

Arguments

m

a symmetric distance matrix.

Value

• a column order lower triangular matrix.

Details

Converts a symmetric matrix, for example a dissimilarity matrix, into a lower- triangular matrix. This may be useful to format the input for certain clustering and ordination functions.

See Also

full, fixdmat,