Convert a dataframe to an object of class “dist” without actually calculating distances in R

Question

I have a dataframe with distances

df<-data.frame(site.x=c(\"A\",\"A\",\"A\",\"B\",\"B\",\"C\"),   
site.y=c(\"B\",\"C\",\"D\",\"C\",\"D\",\"D\"),Distanc         


        

Answer 1

?as.dist() should help you, though it expects a matrix as input.