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+#shorthand: map 1->1, 2->2, 3->3, 4->1, ..., 149->2, 150->3, ... (is base==3)
+I = function(i, base)
+ (i-1) %% base + 1
+
+# NOTE: medoids can be a big.matrix
+computeDistortion = function(series, medoids)
+{
+ n = nrow(series) ; L = ncol(series)
+ distortion = 0.
+ if (bigmemory::is.big.matrix(medoids))
+ medoids = medoids[,]
+ for (i in seq_len(n))
+ distortion = distortion + min( colSums( sweep(medoids,1,series[,i],'-')^2 ) / L )
+ distortion / n
+}