[R-sig-eco] pairwise distance metrics

[Etienne Laliberté]

gowdis() in package FD

http://cran.r-project.org/package=FD

also computes the Gower dissimilarity coefficient just like daisy(), but
implements Podani's (1999) extension to ordinal variables and allows
variable weights to be specified.


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