[R] hierarchical clustering - variable selection

[Dylan Beaudette]

varclust() in the Hmisc package might be what you are looking for.

Dylan

On Tue, Jun 30, 2009 at 7:27 PM, <Alexander.Herr at csiro.au> wrote:
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> Hi List,
>
> I am looking for a procedure that allows selection of variables in a clustering attempt.
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> Specifically I am searching for a way of selecting out noise variables from a set of numeric/categorical variables (or of course selecting "non-noise" variables).
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> The procedure should work with gower/ward metric/method. So far I have only found procedures that deal with numerical variables.
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> Any hints to packages/procedure would be appreciated
>
> Thanks
> Herry
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