\name{JSdist} \alias{JSdist} \title{ Jensen-Shannon distance on columns } \description{ JSdist takes a matrix of expression probabilites (calculated directly or output from makeprobs()) and returns a dist object of the pairwise Jensen-Shannon distances between columns } \usage{ JSdist(mat) } \arguments{ \item{mat}{ A matrix of expression probabilities (e.g. from makeprobs()) } } \details{ Returns pairwise Jensen-Shannon distance (in the form of a dist object) for a matrix of probabilities (by column) } \value{ A dist object of pairwise J-S distances between columns. } \references{ None } \author{ Loyal A. Goff } \note{ None } \examples{ mat<-matrix(sample(1:50,50),10) probs<-makeprobs(mat) js.distance<-JSdist(probs) } \keyword{ Jensen-Shannon } \keyword{ distance } \keyword{ metric } \keyword{ JS }