dist.3col: Transform distance matrix to 3-column matrix

In iCAMP: Infer Community Assembly Mechanisms by Phylogenetic-Bin-Based Null Model Analysis

Transform distance matrix to 3-column matrix

Description

Transform a distance matrix to a 3-column matrix in which the first 2 columns indicate the pairwised samples/species names.

Usage

dist.3col(dist)

Arguments

dist	a square matrix or distance object with column names and row names.

Details

In many cases, a 3-column matrix is easier to use than a distance matrix.

Value

name1	1st column, the first item of pairwised two items
name2	2nd column, the second item of pairwised two items
dis	3rd column, distance value of the pairwised two itmes

Note

Version 1: 2015.5.17

Author(s)

Daliang Ning

Examples

# In this example, dist.3col transforms the distance object
# of Bray-Curtis dissimilarity to 3-column matrix.

data("example.data")
comm=example.data$comm
BC=vegan::vegdist(comm)
BC3c=dist.3col(BC)

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