I want to find out the euclidean distance of two matrices using the rdist() function. It requires the fields package to be imported first. I am using R version 2.15.2 and unable to install this package as its giving error that package ‘fields’ is not available (for R version 2.15.2). Which package should I install?
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sgibb
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You need to downlaod R version 3.0(or higher) and fields package also has dependencies - You also need to install spam and maps,
Depends: R (≥ 3.0), methods, spam, maps
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thank you,but is there any function to calculate euclidean distance in this version of r? – user2969490 Dec 23 '13 at 19:47
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http://stat.ethz.ch/R-manual/R-patched/library/stats/html/dist.html – Prasanna Nandakumar Dec 23 '13 at 19:55
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1Upvote if your problem is solved – Prasanna Nandakumar Dec 23 '13 at 19:56
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If you really don't want to use rdist you could use dist this is in stats and so part of base
dist(x, method = "euclidean")
e.g.
dist(rbind( c(1,2,3), c(3,2,1) ), method = "euclidean")
# this is the distance of the two vectors
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