[R] Specifying medoids in PAM?

[Martin Maechler]

>>>>> "David" == David Finlayson <david.p.finlayson at gmail.com>
>>>>>     on Tue, 7 Jun 2005 12:11:25 -0700 writes:

    David> I am using the PAM algorithm in the CLUSTER library. 
    David> When I allow PAM to seed the medoids using the default __build__
    David> algorithm things work
    David> well:

    >> pam(stats.table, metric="euclidean", stand=TRUE, k=5)

    David> But I have some clusters from a Hierarchical analysis that I would
    David> like to use as seeds for the PAM algorithm. I can't figure what the
    David> mediod argument wants. When I put in the five integer indicies for the
    David> observations in stats.table that I would like to use as seeds (the row
    David> numbers), I segfault R.

    >> pam(stats.table, metric="euclidean", stand=TRUE, medoids=c(1,3,20,2,5), k=5)

    David> *** R Crashes ***

this is not very helpful.

Can you please   READ the posting guide and then
do as the guide says :

 -  post a *reproducible* example
 -  tell more about what happens when  "R Crashes"

    David> Here is my version info:
    >> version
    David> _              
    David> platform i386-pc-mingw32
    David> arch     i386           
    David> os       mingw32        
    David> system   i386, mingw32  
    David> status                  
    David> major    2              
    David> minor    0.1            
    David> year     2004           
    David> month    11             
    David> day      15             
    David> language R      

    David> Any guidance would be appreciated.

    David> David

    David> -- 
    David> David Finlayson
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