R help - Jul 2005 - how to get dissimilarity matrix

Hello All,
   I'm learning R. Just wonder, any package or function that I can use to
get the dissimilarity matrix? Thanks.

Best regards, 
  Baoqiang Cao

>>>>> "Baoqiang" == Baoqiang Cao <caobg at
email.uc.edu>
>>>>>     on Mon, 18 Jul 2005 15:02:05 -0400 writes:
    Baoqiang> Hello All, I'm learning R. Just wonder, any
    Baoqiang> package or function that I can use to get the
    Baoqiang> dissimilarity matrix? Thanks.

Yes,
learn to use help.search()  {also read the docu :  ?help.search}

help.search("dissimilarity")

and find daisy() in recommended package 'cluster'.
There's also  dist() in 'stats' which is a bit less versatile.