Joanna Papakonstantinou
2013-Feb-22 20:45 UTC
[R] Fwd: difficulty defining variables as categorical using Gower with DAISY
> I am using the iris dataset that contains mixed variables (some columns are numeric and some categorical). > > > > iris > Sepal.Length Sepal.Width Petal.Length Petal.Width Species > 1 5.1 3.5 1.4 0.2 setosa > 2 4.9 3.0 1.4 0.2 setosa > 3 4.7 3.2 1.3 0.2 setosa > 4 4.6 3.1 1.5 0.2 setosa > . > . > .> I am trying to use the Gower metric so that I may specify that some columns contain categorical data. > > iris.clust<-daisy(iris, metric = "gower", stand = FALSE, type = list(factor="Species")) >But it is saying that the type= I, I, I, I, N so obviously it is not reading the variable types correctly. Could someone please tell me how to specify the types correctly? Thank you.> > ****************************************************************** > > Joanna Papakonstantinou, Ph.D. >[[alternative HTML version deleted]]