[R] nnclust: nnfind() distance metric?

Thomas Lumley tlumley at u.washington.edu
Thu May 6 18:46:22 CEST 2010



It uses Euclidean distances.  I don't know what the maintainer was thinking when he wrote that help page.

   -thomas

On Thu, 6 May 2010, Jay wrote:

> Hello,
>
> pardon my ingorance, but what distance metric is used in this function
> in the nnclust package?
> The manual only says:
>
> "Find the nearest neighbours of points in one data set from another
> data set. Useful for Mallows-type
> distance metrics."
>
>
> BR,
> Jay
>
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Thomas Lumley			Assoc. Professor, Biostatistics
tlumley at u.washington.edu	University of Washington, Seattle



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