utilsCalculateDistance {rSRD}

utilsCalculateDistance

Description

Calculates the Manhattan-distance between two rankings and inserts it into the DataFrame after the first column.

Usage

utilsCalculateDistance(df, nameCol, refCol)

Arguments

df

A DataFrame.

nameCol

The current Column of the iteration.

refCol

The reference Column of the dataFrame.

Value

Returns a new df that has a Distance Column based on the nameCol.

Author(s)

Ali Tugay Sen

Examples

SRDInput <- data.frame(
A=c(32, 52, 44, 44, 47),
B=c(73, 75, 65, 76, 70),
C=c(60, 59, 57, 55, 60),
D=c(35, 24, 44, 83, 47),
E=c(41, 52, 46, 50, 65))
nameCol <- "A"
refCol <- "B"
 for(i in names(SRDInput)){ SRDInput <- rSRD::utilsCalculateRank(SRDInput,i)}
rSRD::utilsCalculateDistance(SRDInput,nameCol,refCol)