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Provides tools for constructing, computing, and using distance measures for numerical, categorical, and mixed-type data. The package implements a flexible framework in which continuous and categorical components can be combined under additive, commensurable, and association-aware specifications. Supported methods include classical distances such as Gower, Euclidean, Manhattan, and Mahalanobis-type distances; categorical dissimilarities such as simple matching, occurrence-frequency, and association-based measures; and mixed-type presets designed to reduce biases due to variable type, scale, distribution, redundancy, and number of categories. The package also provides scaling options, supervised and unsupervised distance constructions, leave-one-variable-out tools for distance-based variable importance, and integration with distance-based learning workflows such as nearest-neighbour prediction, partitioning around medoids, and spectral clustering. Methods are motivated by van de Velden, Iodice D'Enza, Markos, and Cavicchia (2026) <doi:10.1080/10618600.2026.2680181> and related work on categorical and mixed-type dissimilarities.
| Version: | 0.5.0 |
| Depends: | R (≥ 4.5.0) |
| Imports: | aricode, cluster, clusterGeneration, data.table, dials, distances, dplyr, entropy, fastDummies, forcats, fpc, generics, ggplot2, kdml, magrittr, Matrix, parsnip, philentropy, purrr, readr, recipes, Rfast, rlang, rsample, stats, tibble, tidyr, tidyselect, tune |
| Suggests: | arules, clustMixType, FD, klaR, mclust, palmerpenguins, parallelDist, StatMatch, workflows |
| Published: | 2026-06-09 |
| DOI: | 10.32614/CRAN.package.manydist |
| Author: | Alfonso Iodice D'Enza [aut, cre], Angelos Markos [aut], Michel van de Velden [aut], Carlo Cavicchia [aut] |
| Maintainer: | Alfonso Iodice D'Enza <iodicede at unina.it> |
| License: | GPL-3 |
| NeedsCompilation: | no |
| Citation: | manydist citation info |
| Materials: | NEWS |
| CRAN checks: | manydist results |
| Reference manual: | manydist.html , manydist.pdf |
| Package source: | manydist_0.5.0.tar.gz |
| Windows binaries: | r-devel: manydist_0.5.0.zip, r-release: manydist_0.4.9.zip, r-oldrel: manydist_0.5.0.zip |
| macOS binaries: | r-release (arm64): manydist_0.5.0.tgz, r-oldrel (arm64): manydist_0.5.0.tgz, r-release (x86_64): manydist_0.5.0.tgz, r-oldrel (x86_64): manydist_0.5.0.tgz |
| Old sources: | manydist archive |
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