Package: disttools
Type: Package
Title: Distance Object Manipulation Tools
Version: 0.1.8
Authors@R: c(
    person("Zachary", "Colburn", email = "zcolburn@gmail.com", role = c("aut", "cre")),
    person("Madigan Army Medical Center - Department of Clinical Investigation", email = "usarmy.jblm.medcom-mamc.mbx.dci@mail.mil", role = c("cph", "fnd"))
  )
Maintainer: Zachary Colburn <zcolburn@gmail.com>
Description: Provides convenient methods for accessing the data in
        'dist' objects with minimal memory and computational overhead.
        'disttools' can be used to extract the distance between any
        pair or combination of points encoded by a 'dist' object using
        only the indices of those points. This is an improvement over
        existing functionality, which requires either coercing a 'dist'
        object into a matrix or calculating the one dimensional index
        corresponding to a pair of observations. Coercion to a matrix
        is undesirable because doing so doubles the amount of memory
        required for storage. In contrast, there is no inherent
        downside to the latter solution. However, in part due to
        several edge cases, correctly and efficiently implementing such
        a solution can be challenging. 'disttools' abstracts away these
        challenges and provides a simple interface to access the data
        in a 'dist' object using the latter approach.
License: MIT + file LICENSE
Encoding: UTF-8
Suggests: covr, testthat, knitr, rmarkdown
RoxygenNote: 7.1.2
VignetteBuilder: knitr
Repository: https://mamc-dci.r-universe.dev
Date/Publication: 2022-02-04 19:31:13 UTC
RemoteUrl: https://github.com/mamc-dci/disttools
RemoteRef: HEAD
RemoteSha: 49820837aff0daff93715113b2818e6b55f4e8d9
NeedsCompilation: no
Packaged: 2026-10-01 08:13:30 UTC; root
Author: Zachary Colburn [aut, cre],
  Madigan Army Medical Center - Department of Clinical Investigation
    [cph, fnd]