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Hi All, I was using the following command for performing kmeans for Iris dataset. Kmeans_model<-kmeans(dataFrame[,c(1,2,3,4)],centers=3) This was giving proper results for me. But, in my application we generate the R commands dynamically and there was a requirement that the column names will be sent instead of column indices to the R commands.Hence, to incorporate this, i tried using the R

Regarding a previous question concerning the kmeans function I've tried the same example and I also get a strange result (at least according to what is said in the help of the function kmeans). Apparently, the function is disregarding the initial cluster centers one gives it. According to the help of the function: centers: Either the number of clusters or a set of initial cluster

Hello, here is a working reproducible example which crashes R using kmeans or gives empty clusters using the nstart option with R 15.2. library(cluster) kmeans(ruspini,4) kmeans(ruspini,4,nstart=2) kmeans(ruspini,4,nstart=4) kmeans(ruspini,4,nstart=10) ?kmeans either we got empty always clusters and or, after some further commands an segfault. regards, Detlef Groth ------------ [R] Empty

Sorry, to solve your question I had tried: data(faithful) kmeans(faithful[c(1:20),1],10) Error: empty cluster: try a better set of initial centers But when I run this a second time it will be ok. It seems, that kmeans has problems to initialize good starting points, because of the random choose of these starting initial points. With kmeans(data,k,centers=c(...) the problem can be solved.

Hello. Is it possible to choose the distance in the kmeans algorithm? I have m vectors of n components and I want to cluster them using kmeans algorithm but I want to use the Mahalanobis distance or another distance. How can I do it in R? If I use kmeans, I have no option to choose the distance. Thanks in advance, Arnau.

Hi, I am using kmeans to cluster a dataset. I test this example: > data<-matrix(scan("data100.txt"),100,37,byrow=T) (my dataset is 100 rows and 37 columns--clustering rows) > c1<-kmeans(data,3,20) > c1 $cluster [1] 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 3 3 3 1 3 1 3 3 1 1 1 1 3 1 3 3 1 1 1 3 3 1 1 3 1 1 1 1 3 3 [38] 3 1 1 1 3 1 1 1 1 3 3 3 1 1 1 1 1 1 3 1 3 1 1 3 1 1 1 1 3 1 1 1 1 1 1 3

Dear R users, When I run the following code, R crashes: require(cclust) x <- matrix(c(0,0,0,1.5,1,-1), ncol=2, byrow=TRUE) cclust(x, centers=x[2:3,], dist="manhattan", method="kmeans") While this works: cclust(x, centers=x[2:3,], dist="euclidean", method="kmeans") I'm posting this here because I am not sure if it is a bug. I've been searching

Hello, I'd like to classify data with kmeans algorithm. In my case, I should get 2 clusters in output. Here is my data colCandInd colCandMed 1 82 2950.5 2 83 1831.5 3 1192 2899.0 4 1193 2103.5 The first cluster is the two first lines the 2nd cluster is the two last lines Here is the code: x = colCandList$colCandInd y = colCandList$colCandMed m = matrix(c(x, y),

Hi, I'm playing around with the 'bigmemory' package, and I have finally managed to create some really big matrices. However, only now I realize that there may not be functions made for what I want to do with the matrices... I would like to perform a cluster analysis based on a big.matrix. Googling around I have found indications that a certain kmeans.big.matrix() function should

Dear helpers I'm sorry to insist but I still think there is something wrong with the function kmeans. For instance, let's try the same small example: > dados<-matrix(c(-1,0,2,2.5,7,9,0,3,0,6,1,4),6,2) I will choose observations 3 and 4 for initial centers and just one iteration. The results are > A<-kmeans(dados,dados[c(3,4),],1) > A $cluster [1] 1 1 1 1 2 2 $centers

Using R 2.1.0 on Windows 2 questions: 1. Is there a way to parse the output from kmeans within R? 2. If the answer to 1. is convoluted or impossible, how do you save the output from kmeans in a plain text file for further processing outside R? Example: > ktx<-kmeans(x,12, nstart = 200) I would like to parse ktx within R to extract cluster sizes, sum-of-squares values, etc., OR save ktx in

Hi guys, I've been using the kmeans and hclust functions for some time now and was wondering if I could specify a custom metric when passing my data frame into hclust as a distance matrix. Actually, kmeans doesn't even take a distance matrix; it takes the data frame directly. I was wondering if there's a way or if there's a package that lets you create distance matrices from

Dear helpers I was working with kmeans from package mva and found some strange situations. When I run several times the kmeans algorithm with the same dataset I get the same partition. I simulated a little example with 6 observations and run kmeans giving the centers and making just one iteration. I expected that the algorithm just allocated the observations to the nearest center but think this

I'm doing kmeans partitioning on a small (n=26) dataset that has 5 variables. I noticed that if I repeatedly run the same command, the cluster centers change and the cluster membership changes. Using RW1022 under Windows NT & Windows 2000 >kmeans(pottery[,1:5], 4, 20) [...snip] $size [1] 7 3 9 7 [...snip] $size [1] 7 10 4 5 [...snip] $size [1] 6 10 5 5 yields a different

Hello, I have used the functions agnes and cutree to cluster my data (4977 objects x 22 variables) into 8 clusters. I would like to refine the solution using a k-means or similar algorithm, setting the initial cluster centres as the group means from agnes. However my data matrix has NA's in it and the function kmeans does not appear to accept this? > dim(centres) [1] 8 22 > dim(data)

Hello, I have been getting the following intermittent error from kmeans: >str(cavint.p.r) num [1:1967, 1:13] 0.691 0.123 0.388 0.268 0.485 ... - attr(*, "dimnames")=List of 2 ..$ : chr [1:1967] "6" "49" "87" "102" ... ..$ : chr [1:13] "HYD" "NEG" "POS" "OXY" ... > set.seed(34) >

I've gone through the link that you sent me and I currently understand how this helps and works to some extent, but I am not too sure of how I should start with converting the current interface to PIMPL design. I'm not used to this design pattern so its taking some time to sink in :) Say I start with the Clusterer class, I create a ClustererImpl class which is the internal class that

hi, I have a dataset (the netflix dataset) which is basically ~18k columns and well variable number of rows but let's assume 25 thousand for now. The dataset is very sparse. I was wondering how to do kmeans/nearest neighbors or kernel density estimation on it. I tired using the spMatrix function in "Matrix" package. I think I'm able to create the matrix but as soon as I pass

Hi there I have been using R to perform kmeans on a dataset. The data is fed in using read.table and then a matrix (x) is created i.e: [ mat <- matrix(0, nlevels(DF$V1), nlevels(DF$V2), dimnames = list(levels(DF$V1), levels(DF$V2))) mat[cbind(DF$V1, DF$V2)] <- DF$V3 This matrix is then taken and a distance matrix (y) created using dist() before performing the kmeans clustering. My query

Helo there. I am using kmeans of base package to cluster my customers. As the results of kmeans is dependent on the initial centroid, may I know: 1) how can we specify the centroid in the R function? (I don't want random starting pt) 2) how to determine the optimal (if not, a good) centroid to start with? (I am not after the fixed seed solution as it only ensure that the