.getMinDist {genBaRcode}

Distance calculation

Description

Calculates the minimum distance to a set of predefined barcodes for a given list of barcode.

Usage

.getMinDist(BC_dat, ori_BCs, m = "hamming")

Arguments

BC_dat

a BCdat object

ori_BCs

a character vector containing barcodes to which the minimal hamming distance will be calculated.

m

a character string, Method for distance calculation, default value is Hamming distance. Possible values are "osa", "lv", "dl", "hamming", "lcs", "qgram", "cosine", "jaccard", "jw", "soundex" (see stringdist function of the stringdist-package for more information).