qiimer (version 0.9.4)

dist_groups: Create a data frame of distances between groups of items.

Description

Create a data frame of distances between groups of items.

Usage

dist_groups(d, g)

Arguments

d

A distance matrix object of class `"dist"`.

g

A factor representing the groups of objects in `d`.

Value

A data frame with 6 columns. "Item1" and "Item2" identify the items compared, using the label if available. Likewise, "Group1" and "Group2" identify the groups of the items. "Label" is a factor giving a convenient label for the type of comparison. Finally, "Distance" contains the distance of interest.

Examples

data(relmbeta_dist)
data(relmbeta)
head(dist_groups(relmbeta_dist, relmbeta$Diet))