distancia {dprep} | R Documentation

## Vector-Vector Euclidiean Distance Function

### Description

Finds the euclidean distance between two vectors x and y, or the matrix y and the vector x

### Usage

    distancia(x, y)

### Arguments

`x` | numeric vector
`y` | numeric vector or matrix

### Details

Does not support missing values. If y is a column of a vector, the transpose must be used.

### Value

`distancia` | numeric value representing the Euclidean distance between x and y, or a row matrix representing the Euclidean distance between x and each column of y.

### Author(s)

Caroline Rodriguez and Edgar Acuna

### Examples

    #---- Calculating distances
    x=rnorm(4)
    y=matrix(rnorm(12),4,3)
    distancia(x,t(y[,1]))
    distancia(x,y)

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