Distance Between Two Numeric Vectors — distance • distantia

Computes the distance between two numeric vectors with a distance metric included in the data frame distantia::distances.

Usage

distance(x = NULL, y = NULL, distance = "euclidean")

Arguments

x: (required, numeric vector).
y: (required, numeric vector) of same length as x.
distance: (optional, character string) name or abbreviation of the distance method. Valid values are in the columns "names" and "abbreviation" of the dataset distances. Default: "euclidean".

Value

numeric value

See also

Other distances: distance_matrix(), distances

Examples


distance(
  x = runif(100),
  y = runif(100),
  distance = "euclidean"
)
#> [1] 4.210524
#> attr(,"distance")
#> [1] "euclidean"