[Rd] error in plot.dendrogram (PR#7300)

[wolski at molgen.mpg.de]

Hi,

First. If you should not do it like you write here. You will get an 
error loading the rda file. It is a binary format.

Error in load(dFile) : input has been corrupted, with LF replaced by CR


Hence, you should specify mode="wb" for downloading binary formats.

Try this code.


file.remove("hres.rda")

dFile <- paste(getwd(),"/hres.rda",sep="")
if(!file.exists(dFile))
    download.file(url ="http://www.molgen.mpg.de/~wolski/hres.rda", dest= dFile,mode="wb")
load(dFile)

hresd
plot(hresd)

In one think you are right, the X axis. But there is an ERROR.

On my Machine (see previous mail) not the complete dendrogram is drawn. 
It just draws the first 100 leavs out of 380 when I run
Second.  Even if I increase the size of the window maximally the 
dendrogram is not plotted.
And I checked it just again on a linux box. And it does not work there 
either.

How the dendrogram should look like you can figure out looking at the 
following.

hclustObj <- paste(getwd(),"/hress.rda",sep="")
if(!file.exists(dFile))
    download.file(url ="http://www.molgen.mpg.de/~wolski/hress.rda", dest= hclustObj ,mode="wb")
load(dFile)

hress
plot(hress)

hressd<-as.dendrogram(hress)
plot(hressd)


Third. I have expected this comment about if it is meaningfull or not.
 First for what I need it is it meaningfull. Second it is a valid 
dendrogram generated by as.dendrogram from a vaild hclust object. I do 
not need a plot routine which teaches me what she thinks is meaningfull 
or not.


/E





Martin Maechler wrote:

>>>>>>"Eryk" == Eryk Wolski <wolski at molgen.mpg.de>
>>>>>>    on Thu, 21 Oct 2004 13:41:29 +0200 (CEST) writes:
>>>>>>            
>>>>>>
>
>    Eryk> Hi,
>
>    Eryk> hres <- hclust(smatr,method="single")
>    Eryk> hresd<-as.dendrogram(hres)
>    Eryk> as.dendrogram(hres)
>    Eryk> `dendrogram' with 2 branches and 380 members total, at height 2514.513 
>    Eryk> plot(hresd,leaflab="none") #<-error here.
>
>definitely no error here.. maybe your graphic window is too
>small or otherwise unable to show all the leaf labels?
>
>    Eryk> #the plotted dendrogram is incomplete. The x axis is not drawn.
>
>ha! and why should this be a bug????
>Have you RTFHP and looked at its example??
>There's never an x-axis in such a plot!
>
>[You really don't want an x-axis overlayed over all the labels]
>
>    Eryk> #The interested reader can download the
>
>    Eryk> save(hresd,file="hres.rda")
>
>    Eryk> #from the following loacation
>    Eryk> www.molgen.mpg.de/~wolski/hres.rda
>
>If you send a bug report (and please rather don't..),
>it should be reproducible, i.e., I've just wasted my time for 
>
>dFile <- "/u/maechler/R/MM/Pkg-ex/stats/wolski-hres.rda"
>if(!file.exists(dFile))
>    download.file(url ="http://www.molgen.mpg.de/~wolski/hres.rda", dest= dFile)
>load(dFile)
>hresd
>plot(hresd)
>
>----
>
>If you look at this plot I hope you rather see that "single" has
>been an extremly unuseful clustering method for this data / dissimilarities,
>and you'd rather tried other methods than to which for an
>x-axis.
>
>If you really want one (just to see that it doesn't make sense),
>you can always add
>    axis(1, fg = "red")
>
>Martin
>
>  
>


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