[R] cluster in R

Weiwei Shi helprhelp at gmail.com
Tue Oct 17 23:45:44 CEST 2006


hi,
I just happened to find that page. But it seems too brief to me. For
example, my project involves non-determined cluster number and
non-determined attributes for the would-be-clustered samples. What
kind of methods should I start with?

Thanks a lot for the prompty reply.

W.

On 10/17/06, Gabor Grothendieck <ggrothendieck at gmail.com> wrote:
> Go the R home page (google for R), click on CRAN in left pane, choose
> a mirror, click on Task Views in left pane and choose
> Cluster.
>
> On 10/17/06, Weiwei Shi <helprhelp at gmail.com> wrote:
> > hi,
> >
> > is there some good summary on clustering methods in R? It seems there
> > are many packages involving it.
> >
> > And I have two questions on clustering here:
> >
> > 1. Is there a way of evaluate the effecitives (or seperation) of
> > clustering (rather than by visualization)?
> >
> > 2. Is there a search method (like genetic search) which can help find
> > the best subset of attributes which gives best seperation?
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > --
> > Weiwei Shi, Ph.D
> > Research Scientist
> > GeneGO, Inc.
> >
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-- 
Weiwei Shi, Ph.D
Research Scientist
GeneGO, Inc.

"Did you always know?"
"No, I did not. But I believed..."
---Matrix III



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