You posted this a week ago.  Do you still need help with it?  If so, can 
you give an example of what your mysql data look like?  Have you brought 
your mysql data into R, or is that part of the question?

Jean

Vinod Hegde wrote on 03/27/2012 08:30:11 AM:

> Hi,
> 
> I have similarity value between string pairs in a mysql database.
> I need to construct the distance matrix which hclust can take and 
cluster
> the strings. Most of the examples I came across show how to construct 
the
> distance matrix using dist function.
> 
> How can I code to construct distance matrix using the data in mysql db.
> 
> Thanks a lot for any help.

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