[R] mva - kmeans (repetitive requests)

[Athula Herath]

OOPS!.

Many thanks to Prof. Ripley for pointing out:


Prof Brian Ripley wrote:

> > Date: Mon, 18 Dec 2000 13:08:20 +0000
> > From: Athula Herath <Athula.Herath at ogs.co.uk>
> >
> >
> > Hi All,
> >
> > Should I get two different results if I were to repeat the kmeans
> > clustering on the same data set?
>
> [Using kmeans(iris[1:4],5,20)]
>
> Yes.  It starts with a random sample from the dataset.

This explains (and I should've looked at help(kmeans) carefully)

Thanks,

Athula.



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