Thanks for the suggestion Christian. I'm trying to avoid expanding the dist
object to a matrix, since i'm usually working with microarray data which
produces a distance matrix of size 5000 x 5000.
If i can keep it in its condensed form i think it will speed things up.
Is my thinking correct?
On 3/12/07, Christian Hennig <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> On Mon, 12 Mar 2007, Sender wrote:
>
> > Hello:
> >
> > Does anyone know if there exists a package that handles methods for [
> for
> > dist objects?
> >
> > I would like to access a dist object using matrix notation
> >
> > e.g.
> >
> > dMat = dist(x)
> > dMat[i,j]
>
> Try
> dMat <- as.matrix(dist(x))
>
> Christian
>
>
>
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