maxDistance {LearnClust}

Maximal distance

Description

Get the matrix maximal value.

Usage

maxDistance(matrix)

Arguments

matrix

is a numeric matrix. It could be a numeric vector.

Details

This function is part of the hierarchical clusterization method. The function uses the numeric vector or matrix matrix given and return the maximal value. The function avoids distances equal 0, and initialize maximal value with an auxiliar function initMax, which gets the first matrix element with a valid distance.

Value

numeric value. Max value from a matrix

Author(s)

Roberto Alcántara [e-mail]

Juan José Cuadrado [e-mail]

Universidad de Alcalá de Henares

Examples

matrixExample <- matrix(c(1:10), nrow=2)

maxDistance(1:10)

maxDistance(matrixExample)