[BioC] Problems with clValid: "fanny unable to find clusters"

[Hervé Pagès]

Hi Jörg,

Even if it suggests a few BioC packages, clValid is not a BioC package
(it's hosted on CRAN). You will get better results if you ask directly
to its authors/maintainer (see DESCRIPTION file).
Cheers,

H.


Jörg Linde wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I have been working a lot with the clValid package lately. I find it a really helpful, well written and documented package. However, I ran into a problem and hope someone can help me:
> 
> Using this command:
> "
> clust=clValid(obj=matrix,nClust=2:8,validation=c("internal", "stability"),metric ="euclidean", method ="average",neighbSize = 10,maxitems =dim(matrix)[1], clMethods = c("fanny"))"
> 
> I receive the following messages:
> 
> Warning messages:
> 1: In vClusters(mat, clMethods[i], nClust, validation = validation,  :
>   fanny unable to find 4 clusters, returning NA for these validation measures
> 2: In vClusters(mat, clMethods[i], nClust, validation = validation,  :
>   fanny unable to find 5 clusters, returning NA for these validation measures
> 
> ...(repeats until 8 clusters)
> There are no fuzzy clusters computed for k=4..8
> However, using fanny directly there is no warning message at all (the same for k=4..8):
> fanny(x=matrix,k=5,metric ="euclidean",maxit = 500)
> 
> Note that maxit=500 is the standard and not reached for any of the clusters.
> Interestingly using metric ="correlation" reports no warnings for clValid.
> 
> Any idea what the problem might be?
> 
> Thanks a lot
> Jörg
> 
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