[R] How do I do group wise clustering in R?

[David L Carlson]

Look at the aggregate function to create a new data.frame in which you have
M rows that have the means of the K variables for each group. Then use
cluster analysis to cluster the M groups.

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David L Carlson
Associate Professor of Anthropology
Texas A&M University
College Station, TX 77843-4352


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> How do I do group wise clustering in R?
> 
> Hi all,
> 
> I have N x K data matrix, where N is the number of observations, K is
> the
> number of variables.
> 
> The N observations fall into M categories or groups.
> 
> Now I want to cluster the groups, instead of the observations, how do I
> do
> that?
> 
> i.e. the clustering would be at the group level...
> 
> Thanks a lot for your help!
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