[R] Gower Similarity Coefficient

[Chuck Cleland]

Timothy Rye wrote:
> I'm interested in clustering my data using the Gower Similarity Coefficient,
> and I was wondering if R is capable of using that metric
> 
> Timothy Rye

RSiteSearch("Gower") points to a number of relevant messages in the
archives.  It also reveals gdist() in the mvpart package, vegdist() in
the vegan package, and dist.binary() in the ade4 package, which may do
what you want.

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