cl_ensemble {clue} | R Documentation |
Cluster Ensembles
Description
Creation and manipulation of cluster ensembles.
Usage
cl_ensemble(..., list = NULL)
as.cl_ensemble(x)
is.cl_ensemble(x)
Arguments
... |
R objects representing clusterings of or dissimilarities between the same objects. |
list |
a list of R objects as in |
x |
for |
Details
cl_ensemble
creates “cluster ensembles”, which are
realized as lists of clusterings (or dissimilarities) with additional
class information, always inheriting from "cl_ensemble"
. All
elements of the ensemble must have the same number of objects.
If all elements are partitions, the ensemble has class
"cl_partition_ensemble"
;
if all elements are dendrograms, it has class
"cl_dendrogram_ensemble"
and inherits from
"cl_hierarchy_ensemble"
;
if all elements are hierarchies (but not always dendrograms), it has
class "cl_hierarchy_ensemble"
.
Note that empty or “mixed” ensembles cannot be categorized
according to the kind of elements they contain, and hence only have
class "cl_ensemble"
.
The list representation makes it possible to use lapply
for
computations on the individual clusterings in (i.e., the components
of) a cluster ensemble.
Available methods for cluster ensembles include those for
subscripting, c
, rep
, and print
. There is also a
plot
method for ensembles for which all elements can be plotted
(currently, additive trees, dendrograms and ultrametrics).
Value
cl_ensemble
returns a list of the given clusterings or
dissimilarities, with additional class information (see
Details).
Examples
d <- dist(USArrests)
hclust_methods <-
c("ward", "single", "complete", "average", "mcquitty")
hclust_results <- lapply(hclust_methods, function(m) hclust(d, m))
names(hclust_results) <- hclust_methods
## Now create an ensemble from the results.
hens <- cl_ensemble(list = hclust_results)
hens
## Subscripting.
hens[1 : 3]
## Replication.
rep(hens, 3)
## Plotting.
plot(hens, main = names(hens))
## And continue to analyze the ensemble, e.g.
round(cl_dissimilarity(hens, method = "gamma"), 4)