R: Make a distance matrix using a custom distance function

dist_make {usedist}

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Make a distance matrix using a custom distance function

Make a distance matrix using a custom distance function

dist_make(x, distance_fcn, ...)

`x`	A matrix of observations, one per row
`distance_fcn`	A function used to compute the distance between two rows of the data matrix. The two rows will be passed as the first and second arguments to `distance_fcn`.
`...`	Additional arguments passed to `distance_fcn`.

We do not set the call or method attributes of the dist object.

A dist object containing the distances between rows of the data matrix.

x <- matrix(sin(1:30), nrow=5)
rownames(x) <- LETTERS[1:5]
manhattan_distance <- function (v1, v2) sum(abs(v1 - v2))
dist_make(x, manhattan_distance)

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