
> I am using the iris dataset that contains mixed variables (some columns are numeric and some categorical).
>  
> 
> > iris
>     Sepal.Length Sepal.Width Petal.Length Petal.Width    Species
> 1            5.1         3.5          1.4         0.2     setosa
> 2            4.9         3.0          1.4         0.2     setosa
> 3            4.7         3.2          1.3         0.2     setosa
> 4            4.6         3.1          1.5         0.2     setosa
> .
> .
> .

> I am trying to use the Gower metric so that I may specify that some columns contain categorical data.
> > iris.clust<-daisy(iris, metric = "gower", stand = FALSE, type = list(factor="Species"))
> 
But it is saying that the type= I, I, I, I, N
so obviously it is not reading the variable types correctly.

Could someone please tell me how to specify the types correctly?

Thank you.
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> Joanna Papakonstantinou, Ph.D.
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