Functions to manipulate binary fingerprints of arbitrary length. A fingerprint is represented by an object of S4 class 'fingerprint' which is internally represented a vector of integers, such that each element represents the position in the fingerprint that is set to 1. The bitwise logical functions in R are overridden so that they can be used directly with 'fingerprint' objects. A number of distance metrics are also available (many contributed by Michael Fadock). Fingerprints can be converted to Euclidean ...