[R] Cluster analysis question

[Stephen Weigand]

Dan,

I don't use the flexclust package, but if I understand your question
correctly, you can use your own distance measure to calculate a
dissimilarity matrix and pass that to, e.g., agnes() in the cluster
package.

Stephen

On Fri, Feb 6, 2009 at 9:42 AM, Jim Porzak <jporzak at gmail.com> wrote:
> Dan,
>
> Check out Fritz Leisch's flexclust package.
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> On Fri, Feb 6, 2009 at 7:11 AM, Dan Stanger <DStanger at eatonvance.com> wrote:
>> Hello All,
>>
>> I have data where each feature data point is a vector, and my distance
>> measurement is a weighted dot product between vectors.
>>
>> I would like to use R to perform a cluster analysis on this data.  Does
>> one of the R cluster analysis routines provide for a user provided
>> distance function?
>>
>>
>>
>> Dan Stanger
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