Simple classes to represent proximity matrices.
dist objects are the result of
calling the method dissimilarity() with one argument or any
R function returning a S3 dist object.
ar_cross_dissimilarity objects are the result of calling the method
dissimilarity() with two arguments, by calls of the form
new("similarity", ...), or by coercion from matrix.
ar_similarity objects are the result of calling the method
affinity(), by calls of the form new("similarity", ...),
or by coercion from matrix.
Michael Hahsler
For compatibility with
clustering functions in R, we represent dissimilarities as the
S3 class dist. For cross-dissimilarities and similarities, we
provide the S4 classes ar_cross_dissimilarities and
ar_similarities.
stats::dist(), proxy::dist()
Other proximity classes and functions:
affinity(),
dissimilarity(),
predict()