prune_leaf: Trims one leaf from a dendrogram

In talgalili/dendextend: Extending 'dendrogram' Functionality in R

Trims one leaf from a dendrogram

Description

Trims (prunes) one leaf from a dendrogram.

Usage

prune_leaf(dend, leaf_name, ...)

Arguments

dend	dendrogram object
leaf_name	a character string as the label of the tip we wish to prune
...	passed on

Details

Used through prune

Value

A dendrogram with a leaf pruned

Examples

hc <- hclust(dist(USArrests[1:5, ]), "ave")
dend <- as.dendrogram(hc)

par(mfrow = c(1, 2))
plot(dend, main = "original tree")
plot(prune_leaf(dend, "Alaska"), main = "tree without Alaska")

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