[R] Levenshtein-Distance

[steven mosher]

check the help archives.

 hclust  with method=ward  might be what you are looking for



On Wed, Oct 19, 2011 at 2:43 PM, Jörg Reuter <joerg at reuter.at> wrote:
> I am very new to R, so sorry that I ask stupid things.
> I want compare a Matrix row by row and at the end I want to a Matrix with
> the Levenshtein-Distance.
> Example:
> The Data (Learningpath in a E-Learning-System):
> 5 12 24 35
> 1 24 35
> 3  35 35 45 35
> Now I need a comand, which compare the first line with the second,
> then with the third and write the result in a new Matrix. I found many
> Funktion in R, but all compare Strings, but I have numbers.
> After that I want to use the ward-argorithm at the result.
> Can anyone give me a hint, I am at the end with my nervs.
>
> Joerg
>
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