From bolker at zoo.ufl.edu  Sun Sep  2 21:07:29 2007
From: bolker at zoo.ufl.edu (Ben Bolker)
Date: Sun, 02 Sep 2007 15:07:29 -0400
Subject: [Rd] buglet in dist()  ?
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  oops.  sorry.  should have figured something
this obvious would have been on purpose.

  Ben


Peter Dalgaard wrote:
> Ben Bolker wrote:
>>   the first line of dist() says
>>
>>  if (!is.na(pmatch(method, "euclidian")))
>>
>>   shouldn't that be "euclidean" ?
>>
>>   
> I think not.  The first *five* lines are
>
>    if (!is.na(pmatch(method, "euclidian")))
>        method <- "euclidean"
>    METHODS <- c("euclidean", "maximum", "manhattan", "canberra",
>        "binary", "minkowski")
>    method <- pmatch(method, METHODS)
>
> so what happens is that if you enter "euclidian" (which I gather is an 
> uncommon but valid spelling) you get the same result as with "euclidean".
>
>> ---------------------
>> R version 2.5.1 (2007-06-27)
>> i486-pc-linux-gnu
>>
>> locale:
>> LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8;LC_NUMERIC=C;LC_TIME=en_US.UTF-8;LC_COLLATE=en_US.UTF-8;LC_MONETARY=en_US.UTF-8;LC_MESSAGES=en_US.UTF-8;LC_PAPER=en_US.UTF-8;LC_NAME=C;LC_ADDRESS=C;LC_TELEPHONE=C;LC_MEASUREMENT=en_US.UTF-8;LC_IDENTIFICATION=C 
>>
>>
>> attached base packages:
>> [1] "stats"     "graphics"  "grDevices" "utils"     "datasets"  
>> "methods" [7] "base"   
>> other attached packages:
>>    bbmle     nlme
>>  "0.7.7" "3.1-84"
>>
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[Rd] buglet in dist() ?
Ben Bolker