[R] Package for variable clustering

[fharrell@virginia.edu]

The varclus function in the Hmisc library, soon to be available
in beta test for R, does variable clustering.  varclus uses
two similarity measures that are quite robust - Spearman rho^2
rank correlation coefficients and Hoeffding's D statistic, an
omnibus nonparametric test of association.  You can also use
Pearson r^2.  I will make an announcement on r-help when the
package is available.  varclus is not designed to handle
autocorrelation (neither is SAS VARCLUS).   -Frank Harrell

Janusz Kawczak wrote:
> 
> Dear R users:
> 
> is there a package, similar to varclus in SAS or varclus in S, ported or
> 
> written for R? Also, is there any other package in R that was designed
> for
> grouping the variables under different measures of distance (in cases
> where data is non-Gaussian, autocorrelated, and so on).
> 
> Janusz.
> 
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Frank E Harrell Jr              Prof. of Biostatistics & Statistics
Div. of Biostatistics & Epidem. Dept. of Health Evaluation Sciences
U. Virginia School of Medicine  http://hesweb1.med.virginia.edu/biostat


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