neighbors: Neighbors

In labdsv: Ordination and Multivariate Analysis for Ecology

Neighbors

Description

Calculates the nearest neighbors in a distance/dissimilarity matrix

Usage

neighbors(dis,numnbr)

Arguments

dis	an object of class ‘dist’ such as returned by dist, vegdist or dsvdis
numnbr	the number (order) of neighbors to return

Details

For each sample unit in a dissimilarity matrix finds the ‘numnbr’ nearest neighbors and returns them in order.

Value

Returns a data.frame with sample units as rows and neighbors as columns, listed in order of proximity to the sample unit.

Author(s)

David W. Roberts [e-mail]

Examples

data(bryceveg) # returns a data.frame called veg
dis.bc <- dsvdis(bryceveg,'bray/curtis')
neighbors(dis.bc,5)

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