Hi David -
I wanted to thank you for your response!  This was exactly what I needed.
Sincerely,
Alicia

On Fri, Jun 17, 2011 at 3:33 PM, David L Carlson [via R]
<ml-node+3606287-1326677984-245...@n4.nabble.com> wrote:
> You need to use hhid as the rownames for housing.cluster rather than
> including it as a variable in the data.frame:
>
> housing.cluster <-data.frame(htypec1, afforcr1, resyrc1, crowdcc1, chprbos1)
> rownames(housing.cluster) <- hhid
>
> Then it will not be included in the cluster analysis but will be used to
> label the dendrogram.
>
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> Hi All - I am using the daisy function from the cluster library to create a
> dissimilarity matrix.  I'm going to use that matrix to run a cluster
> analysis.  My participants are identified with the variable, hhid.  However,
> when I try to keep hhid in the dataset that I use to create the
> dissimilarity matrix, daisy uses it to create the matrix rather than
> ignoring it as an ID variable.  I need to have the ID variable so I can
> later on identify which cluster each participant was classified as.  Any
> thoughts would be much appreciated!
>
> housing.cluster <-data.frame(hhid, htypec1, afforcr1, resyrc1, crowdcc1,
> chprbos1)
> housingdiss <- daisy(housing.cluster, metric="gower")
>
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Boston College, Lynch School of Education
Department of Counseling, Developmental, and Educational Psychology
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