After that, you might consult the source code for distance() in ecodist. That function was specifically written to make it easy for people to add new dissimilarity/similarity metrics, and I think you'll find it helpful (even if you just extract the bit you need rather than expand the whole function).
Sarah On Mon, Dec 5, 2011 at 9:40 PM, B77S <bps0...@auburn.edu> wrote: > Set, > > This is the same post as your "Similarity Matrix" post. > > I'm not trying to be a smart ass here, but ... ?Can you fit a square peg in > a round hole?... yes, but it doesn't mean it belongs there. > > I suggest you get a piece of paper and a pencil and figure out 1) what you > are trying to do and why, and 2) how you would do that by hand. After you > do that, you should be able to figure this out on your own or formulate a > question to post that someone will be able to answer. Reading might help as > well. > > > > set wrote >> >> Hello R-users, >> >> I've got a file with individuals as colums and the clusters where they >> occur in as rows. And I wanted a table which tells me how many times each >> individual occurs with another. I don't really know how such a table is >> called...it is not a frequency table....My eventual goal is to make >> Venn-diagrams from the occurence of my individuals. >> >> So I've this: >> >> cluster ind1 ind2 ind3 etc. >> 1 0 1 2 >> 2 3 0 1 >> 3 1 1 1 >> >> And I want to go to this: >> ind1 ind2 ind3 >> ind1 0 4 2 >> ind2 4 0 4 >> ind3 2 4 1 >> >> is there a way to do this? >> Thank you for your help >> -- Sarah Goslee http://www.functionaldiversity.org ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
