[R] splitting clusters

[Subramanian Karthikeyan]

Thanks Martin,

Cutting the dendrogram as you suggested solved the problem.   I have
another question along the same lines... If samples x1, x2, y4,y5, z6 are
clustered together, is there a way of extracting this information (i.e.
name of the samples clustered together) and saving it in a file?

Thanks again,
Karthi.






                                                                                                                                       
                      Martin Maechler                                                                                                  
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>>>>> "KarthiS" == Subramanian Karthikeyan
<Subramanian_Karthikeyan at hc-sc.gc.ca>
>>>>>     on Wed, 24 Sep 2003 13:04:04 -0400 writes:

    KarthiS> Hi All: I am clustering 500 genes using hclust of
    KarthiS> R.  Visualizing cluster membership becomes
    KarthiS> difficult with so many genes in each cluster...Is
    KarthiS> there a way of printing the dendrogram in multiple
    KarthiS> pages so that I can clearly see what is in each
    KarthiS> cluster?

- Use dd <- as.dendrogram(hc) on your hclust result `hc',
  then dd[1] gives the first branch, dd[1][2] the 2nd sub-branch of
  the first branch, etc., see the examples on
  ?dendrogram.

- The package "maptree" has also tools for this,
  particularly  prune.clust()

    KarthiS> Thanks in advance.

you're welcome.
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