check whether a matrix is additive

Is there a package in R that checks whether my distance matrix is additive kind of like an is_additive function?

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updated 11.7 years ago by Michael Dondrup

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what's the relevance for a bioinformatics application?

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written 11.7 years ago by Michael Dondrup

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Any real-valued matrix is a linear map between vector spaces and therefore additive.

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