Mateus, Apparently I cc-ed the wrong group (see snippet below). I think you found a bug. I suggest you write something up and send it to [email protected] Follow the directions on "How to report a bug" http://www.stat.ucl.ac.be/ISdidactique/Rhelp/library/base/html/bug.report.html
Jean [email protected] wrote on 07/06/2012 09:22:34 AM: > Your request to the R-core mailing list > Posting of your message titled "Re: [R] Error in hclust?" > has been rejected by the list moderator. The moderator gave the > following reason for rejecting your request: > "Non-members are not allowed to post messages to this list. > If you think you find a bug (think twice and then) maybe ask once more > on R-help then use the R bugs repository " Mateus Teixeira <[email protected]> wrote on 07/06/2012 09:07:27 AM: > Thank you, Jean. > > Mateus > 2012/7/6 Jean V Adams <[email protected]> > Mateus, > > I see what you mean. > I can't figure it out. > I found a message from a few years ago that mentions the same problem. > http://tolstoy.newcastle.edu.au/R/e8/help/09/12/8165.html > > This may be a bug. > Since hclust() is in the stats package, I am ccing the maintainer, > [email protected], on this e-mail. > > Jean > > > find("hclust") > [1] "package:stats" > > maintainer("stats") > [1] "R Core Team <[email protected]>" > > > > Mateus Teixeira <[email protected]> wrote on 07/04/2012 07:39:39 AM: > > > > Dear R users, > > > > I have noted a difference in the merge distances given by hclust using > > centroid method. > > > > For the following data: > > > > x<-c(1009.9,1012.5,1011.1,1011.8,1009.3,1010.6) > > > > and using Euclidean distance, hclust using centroid method gives the > > following results: > > > > > x.dist<-dist(x) > > > x.aah<-hclust(x.dist,method="centroid") > > > x.aah$merge > > [,1] [,2] > > [1,] -3 -6 > > [2,] -1 -5 > > [3,] -2 -4 > > [4,] 1 2 > > [5,] 3 4 > > > x.aah$height > > [1] 0.50000 0.60000 0.70000 0.97500 1.36875 > > > > A calculation by hand results same merges, but at different distances for > > latter stages: > > > > heights: > > 0.5 => merging 3 and 6 => G1 > > 0.6 => merging 1 and 5 => G2 > > 0.7 => merging 2 and 4 => G3 > > *1.25 => merging G1 and G2 => G4 > > 1.92 => merging G3 and G4* > > > > > It seems that hclust is not correctly computing the group centroids. Is it > > correct? > > > > Best regards, > > > > Mateus [[alternative HTML version deleted]] ______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
