R help - Apr 2004 - How to cluster the variables instead of data points?

Dear R users,

Do you know if there are some specific functions under R
to do clustering?
To be specific, I have a d-dimensional vector x, and wish
to clustering these d variables of x into some finite groups
given self-defined distance measure.

So please offer me some point on this problem.

Thanks.

Fred
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> Do you know if there are some specific functions under R
> to do clustering?
> To be specific, I have a d-dimensional vector x, and wish
> to clustering these d variables of x into some finite groups
> given self-defined distance measure.
Not sure what you want, as the above could be interpreted many ways.

help.search("cluster")

?cut
library(help=cluster)

are good starting points.

Cheers

Jason

Have a look at function varclus in package Hmisc.

Best


Jens Oehlschl??gel

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