dist_matrix: Calculate a distance matrix for a data frame of coordinates

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Calculate a distance matrix for a data frame of coordinates

Description

Given a data frame containing X and Y Cartesian coordinates, calculate a distance matrix between the points.

Usage

dist_matrix(dataframe, x_var, y_var)

Arguments

dataframe	A data frame. Must contain numeric variables corresponding to x_var and y_var containing the X and Y coordinate values.
x_var	Character string. The name of the variable in dataframe containing the X components of the coordinates.
y_var	Character string. The name of the variable in dataframe containing the Y components of the coordinates.

Value

A matrix of the distances between the points.

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