phm (version 2.1.2)

distMatrix: Calculate a Distance Matrix

Description

Calculate a distance matrix for a numeric matrix, where a distance function is used to calculate the distance between all combinations of the columns of the matrix M.

Usage

distMatrix(M, fn = "textDist", ...)

Value

The distance matrix with the distance between all combinations of the columns of M according to the distance function in fn.

Arguments

M

A numeric matrix

fn

The name of a distance function, default is "textDist".

...

Additional arguments to be passed to the distance function

Examples

M=matrix(c(0,1,0,2,0,10,0,14,12,0,8,0,1,0,1,0),4)
colnames(M)=1:4;rownames(M)=c("A","B","C","D")
M
#Text distance matrix
distMatrix(M)
#Canberra distance matrix
distMatrix(M,"canberra")