[R] distance matrix?

John Ramey johnramey at gmail.com
Mon Jun 28 23:44:27 CEST 2010


x <- 0:10
y <- t(replicate(11, 0:10))
abs(sweep(y, 1, x))

Hope this helps.

On Mon, Jun 28, 2010 at 5:21 AM, clips10 <m.mcquillan at lancaster.ac.uk> wrote:
>
> I have a vector 0 to 10 and want to create a matrix with the differences
> between the numbers in it for instance:
>
>        0   1   2   3   4   5   6   7   8   9   10
>
> 0       0   1   2   3   4   5   6   7   8   9   10
> 1      1   0   1   2   3   4   5   6   7    8    9
> 2
> 3
> 4
> 5
> 6
> 7
> 8
> 9
> 10
>
> Etc etc. So that the matrix is filled with the differences between in
> absolute value so there are no negatives.
>
> Any ideas?
>
> Thanks
>
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