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. -----Original Message----- From: r-help-boun...@r-project.org [mailto:r-help-boun...@r-project.org] On Behalf Of adlynch Sent: Thursday, June 16, 2011 12:35 PM To: r-help@r-project.org Subject: [R] Specify ID variable in daisy{cluster} 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") -- View this message in context: http://r.789695.n4.nabble.com/Specify-ID-variable-in-daisy-cluster-tp3603136 p3603136.html Sent from the R help mailing list archive at Nabble.com. ______________________________________________ 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. ______________________________________________ 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.