[R] jaccards index

[Sarah Goslee]

On Mon, Jul 20, 2015 at 2:02 PM, Don McKenzie <dmck at u.washington.edu> wrote:
> Sarah Goslee’s package “ecodist” will compute a Jaccard index, I believe.

Indeed it does, and for that matter so does the dist() function in
base R. But I couldn't see how that index could be used to normalize
data, being a dissimilarity on pairwise samples, so I left the
question alone hoping it made more sense to someone else on the list.

> You are unlikely to get much help, however, unless you provide more details as to what you are trying to accomplish.  See
>
> http://stackoverflow.com/questions/5963269/how-to-make-a-great-r-reproducible-example
>
> for how to create a reproducible example, as requested in the PostingGuide.

Please do!

You might also try reading the documentation about data import and
boxplots. http://www.rseek.org might help you find the appropriate
docs.

Sarah


>> On Jul 19, 2015, at 10:23 PM, sreenath <sreenath.rajur at macfast.ac.in> wrote:
>>
>> hi..
>> I have a csv file containing 35 coloumns and 193 rows.i want to generate
>> jaccards index to normalise these data.how can i do this also from these
>> data i want to draw boxplot.plz help
>>

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