distance.info: Pairwise distances of spatial coordinates

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Pairwise distances of spatial coordinates

Description

A range of descriptive statistics on the distribution of the pairwise distances between observations.

Usage

distance.info(data)

Arguments

data	data A data frame or matrix containing the x-coordinates in meters in the first column, the y-coordinates in meters in the second column, and the values of the attribute of interest in the third column. Additional columns are ignored.

Value

A list containing:

distmatrix	A matrix containing the pairwise Euclidean distances between all given locations.
distset	A vector containing the pairwise Euclidean distances. The elements equal the upper (or lower) triangle minus the diagonal of the distance matrix. If the input dataset has n rows, distset contains n(n-1)/2 distances.
distsummary	A summary containing the minimum, 1st quartile, median, mean, 3rd quartile and maximum of the distset.
maxdist	The maximal distance.

Moreover, the function prints a histogram of the pairwise distances saved in the list entry distset.

Examples

## Example 1
x = c(1,3,7,10,15)
y = c(5,19,8,3,11)
z = rnorm(5, mean = 20, sd = 40)
dataset = as.data.frame(cbind(x,y,z))
distance.info(data = dataset)

## Example 2
distance.info(birth)

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