[R] distance method in kmeans

[Bettina Gruen]

Chandra,

you might want to have a look at package "flexclust".

Best,
Bettina

Ranga Chandra Gudivada wrote:
> I am trying to cluster some binary data using k-means . As the regular "kmeans" available from stats package in R does'nt provide the option to change the distance method. I was wondering there is any package available to specify type of distance measure to be used in k means clustering in  R. Especially distances like "Jaccard" which is good for binary data. 
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