How to extract intergroup and intergroup distances from a distance matrix? in R

Question

I have this dataset:

values<-c(0.002,0.3,0.4,0.005,0.6,0.2,0.001,0.002,0.3,0.01)
codes<-c("A_1","A_2","A_3","B_1","B_2","B_3","B_4","C_1","C_2","C_3")
names(values)<-codes

In codes, the letter indicates the group and case number in each group. Therefore, I have three groups and from 3 to 4 cases in each group (the actual data set is much larger, but this is a subset).

Then I compute the distance matrix:

dist(values)->dist.m

Now I would like to convert dist.m into a dataset with two columns: one containing the distances "inside" of all groups (the distance between A_1 and A_2, between B_2 and B_4, etc.), and the other containing the distances between "groups" (between A_1 and B_1, between C_1 and B_4, etc.)

Is there an easy way to do this in R?

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thank you very much in advance.

Tina.

Answer 1

, . as.matrix, :

> as.matrix(dist.m)[grep("A", codes), grep("A", codes) ]
      A_1   A_2   A_3
A_1 0.000 0.298 0.398
A_2 0.298 0.000 0.100
A_3 0.398 0.100 0.000

, :

> sapply(LETTERS[1:3], function(let) as.matrix(dist.m)[grep(let, codes), grep(let, codes) ]
+ )
$A
      A_1   A_2   A_3
A_1 0.000 0.298 0.398
A_2 0.298 0.000 0.100
A_3 0.398 0.100 0.000

$B
      B_1   B_2   B_3   B_4
B_1 0.000 0.595 0.195 0.004
B_2 0.595 0.000 0.400 0.599
B_3 0.195 0.400 0.000 0.199
B_4 0.004 0.599 0.199 0.000

$C
      C_1   C_2   C_3
C_1 0.000 0.298 0.008
C_2 0.298 0.000 0.290
C_3 0.008 0.290 0.000

, :

> sapply(LETTERS[1:3], function(let) as.matrix(dist.m)[grepl(let, codes), !grepl(let, codes) ]
+ )
$A
      B_1   B_2   B_3   B_4   C_1   C_2   C_3
A_1 0.003 0.598 0.198 0.001 0.000 0.298 0.008
A_2 0.295 0.300 0.100 0.299 0.298 0.000 0.290
A_3 0.395 0.200 0.200 0.399 0.398 0.100 0.390

$B
      A_1   A_2   A_3   C_1   C_2   C_3
B_1 0.003 0.295 0.395 0.003 0.295 0.005
B_2 0.598 0.300 0.200 0.598 0.300 0.590
B_3 0.198 0.100 0.200 0.198 0.100 0.190
B_4 0.001 0.299 0.399 0.001 0.299 0.009

$C
      A_1   A_2   A_3   B_1   B_2   B_3   B_4
C_1 0.000 0.298 0.398 0.003 0.598 0.198 0.001
C_2 0.298 0.000 0.100 0.295 0.300 0.100 0.299
C_3 0.008 0.290 0.390 0.005 0.590 0.190 0.009

, melt pkg:: reshape2, :

> melt( as.matrix(dist.m)[grep("A", codes), grep("A", codes) ] )
  Var1 Var2 value
1  A_1  A_1 0.000
2  A_2  A_1 0.298
3  A_3  A_1 0.398
4  A_1  A_2 0.298
5  A_2  A_2 0.000
6  A_3  A_2 0.100
7  A_1  A_3 0.398
8  A_2  A_3 0.100
9  A_3  A_3 0.000

, melt .