dissimilarity-methods {tm}R Documentation

Methods for Function dissimilarity in Package ‘tm’

Description

Methods for function dissimilarity in package tm.

Methods

x = "TermDocMatrix", y = "ANY", method = "character"
Computes the dissimilarity between the documents in x with the distance measure method. Any method accepted by dist from package proxy can be passed over.

Formally the dissimilarity is returned in form of a dist object.

x = "TextDocument", y = "TextDocument", method = "character"
Computes the dissimilarity between x and y with the distance measure method. Any method accepted by dist from package proxy can be passed over.

Examples

data("crude")
tdm <- TermDocMatrix(crude)
dissimilarity(tdm, method = "cosine")
dissimilarity(crude[[1]], crude[[2]], method = "eJaccard")

[Package tm version 0.3-3 Index]