[R] trimmed correlations

Prof Brian D Ripley
2001-02-27T07:20:27Z

On Mon, 26 Feb 2001, Amy C. Peng wrote:

> Dear R users:
>
> Does anyone know if there are any R library functions for computing trimmed
> correlations, similar to the trim option in Splus's cor function?

I don't, but then I think that the robust covariance computations of
cov.rob (in package lqs) are much to be preferred.

> Also, does anyone know if there are any R library functions for computing a
> Euclidean distance matrix which can handle missing values, similar to
> Splus's dist function?

It looks to me as if the internal code can do this, and all that is needed
is to add NAOK=TRUE to the .C call in dist().

> Please reply directly to me, as I am not currently a list recipient.
> Thanks very much for your advice.
>
> Sincerely,
> Amy Peng
>
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