Dear R helpers, I have a large data set with 36 variables and about 50.000 cases. The variabels represent labour market status during 36 months, there are 8 different variable values (e.g. Full-time Employment, Student,...)
Only cases with at least one change in labour market status is included in the data set. To analyse sub sets of the data, I have used daisy in the cluster-package to create a distance matrix and then used pam (or pamk in the fpc-package), to get a k-medoids cluster-solution. Now I want to analyse the whole set. clara is said to cope with large data sets, but the first step in the cluster analysis, the creation of the distance matrix must be done by another function since clara only works with numeric data. Is there an alternative to the daisy -> clara route that does not require as much RAM? What functions would you recommend for a cluster analysis of this kind of data on large data set? regards, Hans Ekbrand ______________________________________________ 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.