Thanks Phil, I'll do so now.
Much appreciated. Steve Steve Friedman Ph. D. Spatial Statistical Analyst Everglades and Dry Tortugas National Park 950 N Krome Ave (3rd Floor) Homestead, Florida 33034 [email protected] Office (305) 224 - 4282 Fax (305) 224 - 4147 Phil Spector <[email protected] keley.edu> To [email protected] 10/19/2010 02:23 cc PM [email protected] Subject Re: [R] Clustering with ordinal data Steve - Take a look at daisy() in the cluster package. - Phil Spector Statistical Computing Facility Department of Statistics UC Berkeley [email protected] On Tue, 19 Oct 2010, [email protected] wrote: > > Hello > > I've been asked to help evaluate a vegetation data set, specifically to > examine it for community similarity. The initial problem I see is that the > data is ordinal. At best this only captures a relative ranking of > abundance and ordinal ranks are assigned after data collection. I've > been trying to find a procedure in R that can handle ordinal based > classification and so far have not found one. > > Does one exist ? If there is one, which package supports this type of > analysis and what is the function ? > > Thanks in advance. > Steve > > > > > Steve Friedman Ph. D. > Spatial Statistical Analyst > Everglades and Dry Tortugas National Park > 950 N Krome Ave (3rd Floor) > Homestead, Florida 33034 > > [email protected] > Office (305) 224 - 4282 > Fax (305) 224 - 4147 > > ______________________________________________ > [email protected] 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. > ______________________________________________ [email protected] 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.
