Thanks for the reply.... >From the link you provided, only two packages mentioned categorical field: >depmix and depmixS4. I'll look at them.
-----Original Message----- From: David Winsemius [mailto:dwinsem...@comcast.net] Sent: Thursday, August 01, 2013 12:15 PM To: Li, Yan Cc: r-help@r-project.org Subject: Re: [R] algorithm for clustering categorical data On Aug 1, 2013, at 9:00 AM, Li, Yan wrote: > Hi All, > > Does anyone know what algorithm for clustering categorical variables? > R packages? Many. http://cran.r-project.org/web/views/Cluster.html > Which is the best? For what purpose? > > If a data has both numeric and categorical data, what is the best > clustering algorithm to use and R package? > > I tried numeric transformation of all categorical fields and doing > clustering afterwards. But the transformed fields have values from 1...10, > and my other fields is in a bigger scale: 10000-...This will make the > categorical fields has less effect on the distance calculation... > This seems impossibly vague and confused. You are asked in the Posting Guide to provide a working example if you want help with code. -- David. David Winsemius Alameda, CA, USA ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
