Extract diagonals from a distance matrix in R
问题 I would like to know how can I extract the values of the first diagonal from a distance matrix. For example: > mymatrix [,1] [,2] [1,] 1 2 [2,] 3 4 [3,] 6 4 [4,] 8 6 > dist(mymatrix) 1 2 3 2 2.828427 3 5.385165 3.000000 4 8.062258 5.385165 2.828427 I want to get in a vector the values: 2.828427, 3.000000, 2.828427 Thanks! 回答1: One work around is to convert the dist object to matrix and then extract elements where row index is one larger than the column index: mat = as.matrix(dist(mymatrix))