Try this: diag(rdist(rbind(z, 0), rbind(0, z))[,-(1:2)])
On Mon, Oct 6, 2008 at 1:49 PM, stephen sefick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > a <- c(1:10) > b <- c(.5, .6, .9, 10, .4, 3, 4, 9, 0, 11) > d <- c(21:30) > > z <- data.frame(a,b,d) > library(fields) > results <- c() > for(i in 1:(length(rownames(z))-1)){ > results[i] <- rdist(z[i,], z[(i+1),]) > } > > results.1 <- data.frame(results) > f <- rownames(z) > r <- f[-1] > rownames(results.1) <- r > colnames(results.1) <- f[1] > > this does what I want it to do - is there an easier/generic way of > doing this. I will be using this to calculate euclidean distances > between successive time steps on ordination scores. > thanks > > -- > Stephen Sefick > Research Scientist > Southeastern Natural Sciences Academy > > Let's not spend our time and resources thinking about things that are > so little or so large that all they really do for us is puff us up and > make us feel like gods. We are mammals, and have not exhausted the > annoying little problems of being mammals. > > -K. Mullis > > ______________________________________________ > R-help@r-project.org mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html > and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. > -- Henrique Dallazuanna Curitiba-Paraná-Brasil 25° 25' 40" S 49° 16' 22" O ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.