Re: [R] Euclidean Distance in 3 Dimensions

2014-08-22 Thread William Dunlap
> This function unfortunately does not work in 3d space. [I think 'this' is refering to the 'dist' function.] Can you show how it is not working for you? I.e., what does it produce compared to what you want for a given input? dist() does work on a 3-column (or n-column) matrix or data.frame, wh

Re: [R] Euclidean Distance in 3 Dimensions

2014-08-21 Thread Patzelt, Edward
This function unfortunately does not work in 3d space. Thoughts? On Wed, Aug 20, 2014 at 4:57 PM, Don McKenzie wrote: > ?dist > > from the help > > dist {stats}R Documentation > Distance Matrix Computation > > Description > > This function computes and returns the distance matrix computed

Re: [R] Euclidean Distance in 3 Dimensions

2014-08-21 Thread Patzelt, Edward
r-help-boun...@r-project.org] > *On Behalf Of *Don McKenzie > *Sent:* Thursday, August 21, 2014 1:44 PM > *To:* Patzelt, Edward > *Cc:* R-help@r-project.org > *Subject:* Re: [R] Euclidean Distance in 3 Dimensions > > > > Ugh sorry. I misread your message obviously. Cc�ing

Re: [R] Euclidean Distance in 3 Dimensions

2014-08-21 Thread David L Carlson
rocess the matrices in each list to get what you want. David C From: Patzelt, Edward [mailto:patz...@g.harvard.edu] Sent: Thursday, August 21, 2014 2:58 PM To: David L Carlson Cc: Don McKenzie; R-help@r-project.org Subject: Re: [R] Euclidean Distance in 3 Dimensions Your first description is c

Re: [R] Euclidean Distance in 3 Dimensions

2014-08-21 Thread David L Carlson
: [R] Euclidean Distance in 3 Dimensions Ugh sorry. I misread your message obviously. Cc�ing back to the list (as is the protocol) I�m surprised no one else has replied. I�m a lightweight compared to others on the list. It looks as if the dist() function has compiled code, which suggests that t

Re: [R] Euclidean Distance in 3 Dimensions

2014-08-21 Thread Don McKenzie
Ugh sorry. I misread your message obviously. Cc�ing back to the list (as is the protocol) I�m surprised no one else has replied. I�m a lightweight compared to others on the list. It looks as if the dist() function has compiled code, which suggests that there is some gnarly linear algebra unde

Re: [R] Euclidean Distance in 3 Dimensions

2014-08-20 Thread Don McKenzie
?dist from the help dist {stats}R Documentation Distance Matrix Computation Description This function computes and returns the distance matrix computed by using the specified distance measure to compute the distances between the rows of a data matrix. Is this what you want? Computing on