[R] Enquiry about Hierarchical Clustering

[Setsuko Kinoshita]

Dear Sir,

This is Ms. Setsuko Kinoshita writing from Japan.

I have a question about " missing value" in Hierarchical Clustering.
Hierarchical Clustering was not available the data with missing value for earlier version of "R".
I used Euclidean distance and complete linkage method for "plot(hclust(dist()),hang=-1)".

How are missing values treated for Hierarchical Clustering in the latest "R 1.7.1" program?
e.g. : Is an average replaced ?

Yours Sincerely,

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Setsuko Kinoshita

Social　and Environmental Medicine,　
Graduate School of Comprehensive Human Sciences,
University of Tsukuba
1-1-1, Tennoudai, Tsukuba,
Ibaraki, 305-8575, Japan
Tel&Fax: +81-29-853-3489
E-mail:setsuko at epidemiology.md.tsukuba.ac.jp(office)
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