mangow: Convert a Gower distance problem to a Manhattan distance...

In krlmlr/mangow: Generate a Manhattan Distance Problem from a Gower's Distance Problem

Description

This function converts a data frame to a matrix with the same number of rows. For any two rows of the resulting matrix, the Manhattan distance equals the Gower distance in the input data between the corresponding rows.

Usage

mangow(data)

Arguments

data	The input data frame with continuous, categorical (factor) and ordered variables

Value

A numeric matrix

Examples

iris_sub <- iris[c(1:2,50:51,100:101), ]
row.names(iris_sub) <- NULL
iris_sub
cluster::daisy(iris_sub, "gower")
mangow_iris_sub <- mangow(iris_sub)
cluster::daisy(mangow_iris_sub, "manhattan")

krlmlr/mangow documentation built on Jan. 1, 2020, 4:53 p.m.