How do I manipulate/access elements of an instance of “dist” class using core R?

Question

A basic/common class in R is called \"dist\", and is a relatively efficient representation of a symmetric distance matrix. Unlike a \"matrix\" object,

Answer 1

Seems dist objects are treated pretty much the same way as simple vector objects. As far as I can see its a vector with attributes. So to get the values out:

x = as.vector(distobject)

See? dist for a formula to extract the distance between a specific pair of objects using their indices.