# Assessing Dissimilarity Between Multivariate Time Series

## Documentation for package ‘distantia’ version 1.0.2

- DESCRIPTION file.
- Package NEWS.

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distantia-package | distantia: Assessing Dissimilarity Between Multivariate Time Series
autoSum | Computes sum of distances between consecutive samples in a multivariate time-series.
climate | Dataframe with palaeoclimatic data.
climateLong | Dataframe with palaeoclimatic data.
climateShort | Dataframe with palaeoclimatic data.
distance | Computes a multivariate distance between two vectors.
distanceMatrix | Computes distance matrices among the samples of two or more multivariate time-series.
distancePairedSamples | Computes distance among pairs of aligned samples in two or more multivariate time-series.
distantia | distantia: Assessing Dissimilarity Between Multivariate Time Series
formatPsi | Formats the output of 'psi'.
handleNA | Handles emtpy and NA data in a multivariate time series.
leastCost | Extracts the least cost from a least-cost path.
leastCostMatrix | Computes a least cost matrix from a distance matrix.
leastCostPath | Find the least cost path in a least cost matrix.
leastCostPathNoBlocks | Extracts the least-cost from a least cost matrix by trimming blocks.
plotMatrix | Plots distance matrices and least cost paths.
pollenGP | Pollen dataset.
prepareSequences | Prepare sequences for a comparison analysis.
psi | Computes sum of distances between consecutive samples in a multivariate time-series.
sequenceA | Multivariate and irregular time series with pollen counts.
sequenceB | Multivariate and irregular time series with pollen counts.
sequencesMIS | Dataframe with pollen counts for different MIS stages.
workflowImportance | Computes the contribution to dissimilarity of each variable.
workflowImportanceHP | Computes the contribution to dissimilarity of each variable using workflowPsiHP.
workflowNullPsi | Computes the dissimilarity measure _psi_ on restricted permutations of two or more sequences.
workflowNullPsiHP | Computes the dissimilarity measure _psi_ on restricted permutations of two or more sequences. High performance version with limited options
workflowPartialMatch | Finds the section in a long sequence that better matches a short sequence.
workflowPsi | Computes the dissimilarity measure _psi_ on two or more sequences.
workflowPsiHP | A refactored version of 'workflowPsi' with a higher performance (hence the suffix HP).
workflowSlotting | Slots two sequences into a single composite sequence.
workflowTransfer | Transfers an attribute (time, age, depth) from one sequence to another