Hi! I am trying to implement non-bipartite matching. I have around 500 sites
which can be clustered by 10 regions. I am able to calculate pairwise
Mahalanobis distances between sites (thanks to another post in the forum).
However, I want to constrain my match to sites within the same region. Thus
I want to replace elements of the distance matrix with a high value, say
999999, for sites not of the same region so that the pair will not be
matched.
In the original data file I have information on which sites belong to what
region. However, when I compute for pairwise Mahalanobis distances, I only
use a subset of the file, which, naturally, does not include the
georeference of the sites. How should I do this? Any hint will be most
appreciated.
Btw, I am relatively new in using R. I may export the matrix to another
program and replace the elements there, but that is a very very dirty and
rough trick that I would rather not do given better options.
Many thanks in advance.

Cheers,
Michael

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individuality of its own and make itself worthy of liberties... " Jose
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