On Fri, 2008-02-15 at 10:45 -0800, Tim Smith wrote: > Hi, > > Is there any clustering package in R that can cluster with ordinal data? > > thanks!
daisy() in recommended package 'cluster' can generate dissimilarities for ordinal data using Gower's general (dis)similarity coefficient for mixed data. It returns an object that inherits from dist so it can be used in clustering tools that accept dist objects. Check out the options in the cluster package itself, but also note you can use hclust in base R. For more information, see if the details on the Cluster Task View help: http://cran.r-project.org/src/contrib/Views/Cluster.html HTH G -- %~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~% Dr. Gavin Simpson [t] +44 (0)20 7679 0522 ECRC, UCL Geography, [f] +44 (0)20 7679 0565 Pearson Building, [e] gavin.simpsonATNOSPAMucl.ac.uk Gower Street, London [w] http://www.ucl.ac.uk/~ucfagls/ UK. WC1E 6BT. [w] http://www.freshwaters.org.uk %~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~% ______________________________________________ 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.
