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Hi, I want to know which distance is using in the function kmeans and if we can change this distance. Indeed, in the function pam, we can put a distance matrix in parameter (by the line "pam<-pam(dist(matrixdata),k=7)" ) but we can't do it in the function kmeans, we have to put the matrix of data directly ... Thanks in advance, Nicolas BOUGET

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.

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

Hi there I'm very new as regards to R. I have managed to work out how to use dist and kmeans but am now wondering how best to display the results from kmeans in a graphical form. If anyone has any general advice/tips, I would be most grateful. Thanks [[alternative HTML version deleted]]

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 R users I wondered if any of you ever tried to calculate distance matrix with very large data set, and if anyone out there can confirm this error message I got actually mean that my data is too large for this task. negative length vectors are not allowed My data size and code used dim(mydata_nor)[1] 365000 144> d <- dist(mydata_nor, method = "euclidean") Here my

I am trying to cluster some binary data using k-means . As the regular "kmeans" available from stats package in R does'nt provide the option to change the distance method. I was wondering there is any package available to specify type of distance measure to be used in k means clustering in R. Especially distances like "Jaccard" which is good for binary data.

Hi there I want to be able to take all the files in a given directory, read them in one at a time, calculate a distance matrix for them (the files are data matrices) and then print them out to separate files. This is the code I thought I would be able to use (all files are in directory data_files) for(i in 1:length(files)) + { + x<-read.table("data_files/files[[i]]") +

Hello All, I'm having some trouble figuring out what the clearest way to plot my k-means clustering result on an my existing MDS. First I performed MDS on my distance matrix (note: I performed k-means on the MDS coordinates because applying a euclidean distance measure to my raw data would have been inappropriate) canto.MDS<-cmdscale(canto) I then figured out what would be my optimum

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

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),

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

Hi the devel list, I am using K means with a non standard distance. As far as I see, the function kmeans is able to deal with 4 differents algorithm, but not with a user define distance. In addition, kmeans is not able to deal with missing value whereas there is several solution that k-means can use to deal with them ; one is using a distance that takes the missing value in account, like a

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

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

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)

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

Hello, I would like to have any help with the function Kmeans of R.. I use this to do a classification of my data...I have chosen 12 classes but, I have always an error message: Error: empty cluster: try a better set of initial centers So, I don't understand the probleme with this function.. Thank you to help me!! All the Best Clothilde Clothilde Kussener CNRS - CEBC 79360 Villiers en bois

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