Thanks Phil,
I'll do so now.
Much appreciated.
Steve
Steve Friedman Ph. D.
Spatial Statistical Analyst
Everglades and Dry Tortugas National Park
950 N Krome Ave (3rd Floor)
Homestead, Florida 33034
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Phil Spector
<spec...@stat.ber
keley.edu> To
steve_fried...@nps.gov
10/19/2010 02:23 cc
PM r-help@r-project.org
Subject
Re: [R] Clustering with ordinal
data
Steve -
Take a look at daisy() in the cluster package.
- Phil Spector
Statistical
Computing Facility
Department of
Statistics
UC Berkeley
spec...@stat.berkeley.edu
On Tue, 19 Oct 2010, steve_fried...@nps.gov wrote:
>
> Hello
>
> I've been asked to help evaluate a vegetation data set, specifically to
> examine it for community similarity. The initial problem I see is that
the
> data is ordinal. At best this only captures a relative ranking of
> abundance and ordinal ranks are assigned after data collection. I've
> been trying to find a procedure in R that can handle ordinal based
> classification and so far have not found one.
>
> Does one exist ? If there is one, which package supports this type of
> analysis and what is the function ?
>
> Thanks in advance.
> Steve
>
>
>
>
> Steve Friedman Ph. D.
> Spatial Statistical Analyst
> Everglades and Dry Tortugas National Park
> 950 N Krome Ave (3rd Floor)
> Homestead, Florida 33034
>
> steve_fried...@nps.gov
> Office (305) 224 - 4282
> Fax (305) 224 - 4147
>
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