R/rdist.vec.R

In fields: Tools for Spatial Data

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rdist.vec = function(x1, x2) {
  #make sure inputs are matrices
  if (!is.matrix(x1)) {
    x1 <- as.matrix(x1)
  }
  if(!is.matrix(x2)) {
    x2 <- as.matrix(x2)
  }
  
  #return distances
  sqrt(rowSums((x1 - x2)^2))
}