I have data for a large number of unique populations. In each population each individual is described by a number of categorical and numeric variables. I want to conduct an analysis on each population, and taking into account the descriptive variables, identify the most typical individuals in each population.
I'm hoping that someone can point me towards an R package that provides tools for identifying these individuals as described, or failing that, one or more indices that might be replicated in R to do the job. I've found some literature on exemplar sampling which looks like it may be what I'm looking for, but haven't found any links back to a working R package.
Any advice would be really appreciated.