[R] "partitioning cluster function"

[Friedrich.Leisch at tuwien.ac.at]

>>>>> On Wed, 5 Apr 2006 12:58:00 -0700,
>>>>> Linda Lei (LL) wrote:

  > Hi All,
  > For the function "bclust"(e1071), the argument "base.method" is
  > explained as "must be the name of a partitioning cluster function
  > returning a list with the same components as the return value of
  > 'kmeans'.

 

  > In my understanding, there are three partitioning cluster functions in
  > R, which are "clara, pam, fanny". Then I check each of them to see which
  > of them can get same components as the return value of "kmeans", by
  > using the following codes:

 

The functions in the cluster package will not work, because they have
different interface (names of arguments and return values). cclust
from the package of the same name can be used together with kmeans,
but note that that is no longer actively maintained (see my email to
r-help from a few minutes ago).

Best,
Fritz

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