R help - Jan 2006 - r-help, how can i use my own distance matrix without using dist()

Dear R-helpers,

i am a beginner of R and i am using cluster package to do hierarchical
clustering

i am wondering if i can use my own distance matrix to do the hierarchical
clustering without using dist() function.

if i have my own distance matrix, how can i ask hclust() function to recongnize
it( as the output of dist() function).

thank you very much and i looking forward to hearing from you.

Marshall

see ?dist
   
  there's an example
      
       x <- matrix(rnorm(100), nrow=5)
     m <- as.matrix(dist(x))
     d <- as.dist(m)

'as.dist' is what you're probably looking for
   
  regards,
  Marco

   
   
  ucecgxu@ucl.ac.uk wrote:
  Dear R-helpers,

i am a beginner of R and i am using cluster package to do hierarchical
clustering

i am wondering if i can use my own distance matrix to do the hierarchical
clustering without using dist() function.

if i have my own distance matrix, how can i ask hclust() function to recongnize
it( as the output of dist() function).

thank you very much and i looking forward to hearing from you.

Marshall

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