Which software is freely available to produce dendograms/ hierarchical clusters for plant characterisation data (morphometric)?

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Miriam Leah Zelditch

There are several options if working in R. There is the hclust function in base R stats, and the contributed packages cluster and mclust. For really large datasets (like 10^6 rows) there is the more efficient Rclusterpp

Navindra Boodia

Thank you Miriam. Apart from R, are there other stats packages? Plz advise. I have less than 300 rows

Sorry but I do not know other packages.