R: Compute the length of the longest common subsequence of two...

seqLLCS {TraMineR} | R Documentation

## Compute the length of the longest common subsequence of two sequences

### Description

Returns the length of the longest common subsequence of two sequences. This attribute is described in Elzinga (2008).

### Usage

    seqLLCS(seq1, seq2)

### Arguments

`seq1` | a sequence from a sequence object
`seq2` | a sequence from a sequence object

### Value

an integer being the length of the longest common subsequence of the two sequences.

### References

Elzinga, Cees H. (2008). Sequence analysis: Metric representations of categorical time series. Technical Report, Department of Social Science Research Methods, Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam.

### See Also

`seqdist`

### Examples

    LCS.ex <- c("S-U-S-M-S-U", "U-S-SC-MC", "S-U-M-S-SC-UC-MC")
    LCS.ex <- seqdef(LCS.ex)
    seqLLCS(LCS.ex[1,],LCS.ex[3,])

[Package TraMineR version 2.2-4 Index]