Re: [R] Cluster on both categorical and numerical data

2008-06-18 Thread paulandpen
okay, when you cluster information, you can have two inputs raw data information which the algorithms converts have into a matrix and then processes a pre-processed matrix which you create yourself to input into a package essentially, packages will have a default assumption about the data yo

Re: [R] Cluster on both categorical and numerical data

2008-06-18 Thread Gavin Simpson
On Wed, 2008-06-18 at 12:43 +0100, Gavin Simpson wrote: > On Wed, 2008-06-18 at 03:45 -0700, Birgitle wrote: > > You could have a look at library(analogue) , function ?distance > > Thanks for the plug Birgit, but (and I say this as the author of > distance), if you just want to compute a dissimila

Re: [R] Cluster on both categorical and numerical data

2008-06-18 Thread Gavin Simpson
On Wed, 2008-06-18 at 03:45 -0700, Birgitle wrote: > You could have a look at library(analogue) , function ?distance Thanks for the plug Birgit, but (and I say this as the author of distance), if you just want to compute a dissimilarity matrix using Gower's coefficient for mixed data, use daisy()

Re: [R] Cluster on both categorical and numerical data

2008-06-18 Thread Peng Jiang
hi, Chua Siang I think the mclust package is what you need. regards. On 2008-6-18, at 下午5:46, Chua Siang Li wrote: Hello there. Is there any function in R that can do cluster on a set of data that has both categorical and numerical variables? thanks. siangli

Re: [R] Cluster on both categorical and numerical data

2008-06-18 Thread Birgitle
You could have a look at library(analogue) , function ?distance and library (cluster), function ?agnes B. Chua Siang Li wrote: > > >Hello there. Is there any function in R that can do cluster on a set > of >data that has both categorical and numerical variables? thanks. >siangl