Regarding Custom Blocking & Centroid Calculation for non-numerical vector

[Indrajit Saha]

Hi All,

First of all thank you for making this package open-sourced. Hope all of you are doing well.

I have two questions:

Question 1: How to manually provide the field names for blocking purpose?

Question 2: Say we have 10 rows. So using the classification model we can get the similarity metric for 10 by 10 matrix. Then we can convert this similarity matrix to distance matrix. Once we have this distance matrix ready we go for the hierarchical clustering technique. My question is how can we use linkage="Centroid" method? As the rows are not numeric vectors so how can we take the average of all the elements within a cluster?

I hope it is clear what I meant to ask!

Hope to hear from you soon.