a data matrix ([data.frame object] row: metabolites,
col: samples or replicates)
methods
a character string indicating which correlation coefficient is to be calculated. One of "pearson" (default), "spearman", or "kendall" can be abbreviated.
absolute
TRUE means that absolute value of the correlation coefficient is used (Default: FALSE).
Author
Atsushi Fukushima
Details
These functions were originally from 'hybridHclust' package.
We modified the functions slightly. See also the reference manual in detail.