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Rankcluster (version 0.93.1)

distHamming: Hamming distance between two ranks

Description

The Hamming distance between two ranks x and y is the number of difference between the two ranks. For example, the Hamming's distance between x=(1,4,2,5,3) and y=(1,3,4,5,2) is 3 because, only 1 and 5 have the same place in both ranks.

Usage

distHamming(x, y)

Arguments

x, y
two ranks of size m.

Value

an integer, the Hamming distance between x and y.

Examples

Run this code
x=1:5
y=c(2,3,1,4,5)
distHamming(x,y)

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