R help - Jan 2002 - Distance matrix by cosine?

Hello,

a. is there a possibility to obtain a distance matrix with the cosine between
vectors?? hclust, hierclust, dist will not work and seem to be hard to extend.

b. if there is not: Is the cosine between vectors implemented somewhere?

Thanks for all hints and advice!

Petra Steiner 
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The Euclidean inner product <v, w> of vectors v, w is |v|*|w|*cos(angle).
So
you could first normalize the vectors to length 1, then if they are columns
of a matrix A, crossprod(A) ( = A'A) gives you the matrix of cosines.
 
Reid Huntsinger
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Hello,
 
a. is there a possibility to obtain a distance matrix with the cosine
between vectors?? hclust, hierclust, dist will not work and seem to be hard
to extend.
 
b. if there is not: Is the cosine between vectors implemented somewhere?
 
Thanks for all hints and advice!
 
Petra Steiner 
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