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Based in C, using openMP for parallelization.\n\n### Usage\n\n```\nlibrary(gower)\nreviris \u003c- iris[rev(seq_len(nrow(iris))),,drop=FALSE]\n# compute distances\nd \u003c- gower_dist(iris, reviris)\n\n# data.frame with less records is recycled\nd \u003c- gower_dist(iris[1:3,,drop=FALSE], reviris)\n\n# compute top-n matches\nmat \u003c- gower_topn(iris, reviris, n=5)\n\n## mat$index   : Array of indices (sorted from better to worse match)\n## mat$distance: Array of distances (sorted from small to large)\n\n```\n\nMore info in the [vignette](https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/gower/vignettes/intro.pdf)\n\n\n### Installation\n\n#### From CRAN\n\n```\ninstall.packages(\"gower\")\n```\n\n\n#### Beta versions\n\nMade available through my drat repo.\n\nFirst, install the [drat](https://cran.r-project.org/package=drat) package. Users of the OS who's name shall not be mentioned need to install [Rtools](https://cran.r-project.org/bin/windows/Rtools/) first.\n```\nif(!require(drat)) install.packages('drat')\ndrat::addRepo('markvanderloo')\ninstall.packages('gower',type='source')\n\n```\n\n\n### Reference\n\nGower (1971) A general coefficient of similarity and some of its properties. _Biometrics_ **27** 857-874 [pdf](http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.412.4155\u0026rep=rep1\u0026type=pdf)\n","project_url":"https://awesome.ecosyste.ms/api/v1/projects/github.com%2Fmarkvanderloo%2Fgower","html_url":"https://awesome.ecosyste.ms/projects/github.com%2Fmarkvanderloo%2Fgower","lists_url":"https://awesome.ecosyste.ms/api/v1/projects/github.com%2Fmarkvanderloo%2Fgower/lists"}