R: Hamming Distance

dist.hamming {pegas} | R Documentation

## Hamming Distance

### Description

This function implements a general purpose Hamming distance.

### Usage

    dist.hamming(x)

### Arguments

`x` | a matrix or a data frame.

### Details

This function should work for a wide range of data types. A typical usage would be with an object of class `c("haplotype", "character")`.

For objects of class `c("haplotype", "DNAbin")`, it is better to use `dist.dna(x, "n")` to compute the Hamming distances.

### Value

an object of class `"dist"`.

### Author(s)

Emmanuel Paradis

### See Also

`haplotype`, `dist.haplotype.loci`

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