>>>>> "Chuck" == Chuck Cleland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>>>>> on Mon, 14 Aug 2006 04:53:55 -0400 writes:
Chuck> Timothy Rye wrote:
>> I'm interested in clustering my data using the Gower
>> Similarity Coefficient, and I was wondering if R is
>> capable of using that metric
>>
>> Timothy Rye
Chuck> RSiteSearch("Gower") points to a number of relevant
Chuck> messages in the archives. It also reveals gdist() in
Chuck> the mvpart package, vegdist() in the vegan package,
Chuck> and dist.binary() in the ade4 package, which may do
Chuck> what you want.
The daisy() function from the package "cluster"
(which is *recommended* hence part of every complete R installation)
is also based on Gower's (dis)similarity coefficient.
So you don't need to install a new package
[But I need to add the word 'Gower' to a better place on
daisy()'s help page ...]
Martin Maechler, ETH Zurich.
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