On Fri, 2006-11-17 at 14:50 +0200, Roy Spitz wrote: > Hello > > > > I have 2 rows in a matrix and I want to calculate the Gower Distance between > the 2 , how can I do it? > I searched and found nothing that can help me, and my program doesn't know > the gdist function and I couldn't find it on the R help site. > > > > Can anyone help me plz
vegdist in package vegan has Gower's distance, but all variables have to be numeric. If you want to use mixed data (numerics, factors, binary), see ?daisy in package cluster. HTH G -- %~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~% Gavin Simpson [t] +44 (0)20 7679 0522 ECRC & ENSIS, UCL Geography, [f] +44 (0)20 7679 0565 Pearson Building, [e] gavin.simpsonATNOSPAMucl.ac.uk Gower Street, London [w] http://www.ucl.ac.uk/~ucfagls/ UK. WC1E 6BT. [w] http://www.freshwaters.org.uk %~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~% ______________________________________________ [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.
