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All, How can we find a distance matrix for categorical data ie. given a csv below var1 var2 var3 var4 element1-1 yes x a k element1-2 no y b l element1-3 maybe y c m how can i compute the distance matrix between all the elements Actually i need it to create clusters on top

Hi All , For an academic project I am trying to do the following Step 1 ) Draw and cluster a N ( lets say 3 ) column dataset by dbscan algorithm using R-project’s fpc package ( let say they are "training clusters" ) , Using dbscan as number of clusters are not know before hand Step 2 ) Once that is done i want to spread some new data points in the