Bump...no insights on defining custom metrics. Guess I'll give the other languages a shot.
Vivek On Wed, May 5, 2010 at 10:13 AM, Vivek Ayer <vivek.a...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi guys, > > I've been using the kmeans and hclust functions for some time now and > was wondering if I could specify a custom metric when passing my data > frame into hclust as a distance matrix. Actually, kmeans doesn't even > take a distance matrix; it takes the data frame directly. I was > wondering if there's a way or if there's a package that lets you > create distance matrices from non-standard metrics, e.g., > KL-divergence (which is not really one), but metrics used often in > information theory. I'm assuming kmeans just assumes the euclidean > metric, but it would be nice to customize that as well. Is stuff out > there, or would I have create my own? > > Thanks, > Vivek > ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
