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cytofkit (version 1.4.4)

minDistToHigher: Calculate distance to nearest observation of higher density

Description

This function finds, for each observation, the minimum distance to an observation of higher local density. With a rowise implementation of the pairwise distance calculation, makes the local density estimation fast and memory efficient. A big benifit is the aviliability for big data. Parallel computing is supported for fast calculation.

Usage

minDistToHigher(data, rho, ifParallel = FALSE)

Arguments

data
Numeric matrix of data or data frame.
rho
A vector of local density values as outputted by localDensity.
ifParallel
A boolean decides if run parallelly.

Value

  • A list of distances to closest observation of higher density and the ID