Manhattan Distance — manhat • gdsm

manhat computes the Manhattan distance between two vectors. Specify either two individual vectors or a data frame/matrix and two pertinent row names as input.

manhat(v1, v2, data = NULL)

Arguments

v1	Either an individual vector or a row name of `data`.
v2	Either an individual vector or a row name of `data`.
data	A data frame object or matrix.

Value

Nothing.

Author

D. Schmitz

Examples


### two individual vectors

var01 <- runif(n = 50, min = 1, max = 10)
var02 <- runif(n = 50, min = 1, max = 10)

manhat(var01, var02)
#> [1] 154.2668


### data frame

data("gdsm_df")

manhat("var03", "var04", gdsm_df)
#> [1] 165.7444


### matrix

data("gdsm_mat")

manhat("var05", "var06", gdsm_mat)
#> [1] 149.7203