hclustDS: Conducts hierarchical clustering of a given dissimilarity...

In FlorianSchw/dsClusterAnalysis: DataSHIELD server side functions for the dsClusterAnalysis package

Conducts hierarchical clustering of a given dissimilarity structure

Description

This function is similar to the native R function 'hclust' from stats

Usage

hclustDS(diss, method)

Arguments

diss	is a string character of the dissimilarity structure
method	specifies the method for the calculation of the hierarchical clustering and can be either 'ward.D', 'ward.D2', 'single', 'complete', 'average', 'mcquitty', 'median' or 'centroid'

Details

The function computes the hierarchical clustering of a dissimilarity structure (type 'dist').

Value

the object specified by the newobj argument of ds.hclust or default name hclust.newobj

Author(s)

Florian Schwarz for the German Institute of Human Nutrition

FlorianSchw/dsClusterAnalysis documentation built on Feb. 8, 2025, 10:31 a.m.