R help - Oct 2008 - Gower distance between a individual and a population

Hi the list,

I need to compute Gower distance between a specific individual and all 
the other  individual.

The function DAISY from package cluster compute all the pairwise 
dissimilarities of a population. If the population is N individuals, 
that is arround N^2 distances to compute.

I need to compute the distance between a specific individual and all 
the other  individual, that is only N distances to compute. Is there a 
function that can do it ?

Christophe

> If you used daisy, is there a problem with converting the resulting
> object to a full dissimilarity matrix and extracting the relevant
> row/column you need for the target site?
Well, the lost of efficiantcy is huge. I need to compute the distance 
several time on data base that count 1000 or even 10 000 subjects. 10 
000^2 cost a lot in term of time, whereas 10 000 does not.

A solution would be to re-write DAISY and adapt it. But since I do not 
know fortran, I prefers first to ask if someone already did it...

Christophe