customDist: A 'dist' function that supports custom metrics
In rgp: R genetic programming framework

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This function computes and returns the distance matrix computed by using the given metric to compute the distances between the rows of a data list or vector. Note that in contrast to dist, x has to be a vector and the the distance metric is an arbitrary function that must be symmetric and definite.

1	customDist(x, metric, diag = FALSE, upper = FALSE)

`x`	A vector or list of objects.
`metric`	A metric, i.e. a function of two arguments that returns a numeric. Note that a metric must be definite and symmetric, otherwise the results will be undefined.
`diag`	`TRUE` iff the diagonal of the distance matrix should be printed by `print.dist`.
`upper`	`TRUE` iff the upper triangle of the distance matrix should be printed by `print.dist`.