Use distance() in package ecodist to compute the mahalanobis distance matrix and pass that to hclust().
---------------------------------------------- David L Carlson Associate Professor of Anthropology Texas A&M University College Station, TX 77843-4352 > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] [mailto:r-help-bounces@r- > project.org] On Behalf Of Maria Froes > Sent: Wednesday, May 30, 2012 6:42 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [R] cluster with mahalanobis distance > > How can I perform cluster analysis using the mahalanobis distance > instead of > > the euclidean distance? > > > > Thank you > > Maria Froes > > > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] > > ______________________________________________ > [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.

