hc2Newick: Convert hclust objects to Newick format files

In ctc: Cluster and Tree Conversion.

Description

Convert hclust objects to Newick format files.

Usage

  hc2Newick(hc, flat=TRUE)

Arguments

hc	a hclust object (as returned by the function hclust in the package stats)
flat	a boolean (see section value).

Value

If flat=TRUE the result is a string (that you can write in a file).

If flat=FALSE the result is a list (of lists). Each list is consituted of the elements left, right and dist.

Author(s)

Laurent ([e-mail])

References

Antoine Lucas and Sylvain Jasson, Using amap and ctc Packages for Huge Clustering, R News, 2006, vol 6, issue 5 pages 58-60.

Examples

data(USArrests)
h = hclust(dist(USArrests))
write(hc2Newick(h),file='hclust.newick')

Example output

Loading required package: amap

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