[R] kmeans and incom,plete distance matrix concern

[Gabor Grothendieck]

?kmeans says the following.  Note that x is a matrix of ***data***.
Also look at the examples at the end of the help page if its still
not clear.

Usage:

     kmeans(x, centers, iter.max = 10, nstart = 1,
            algorithm = c("Hartigan-Wong", "Lloyd", "Forgy", "MacQueen"))

Arguments:

       x: A numeric matrix of data, or an object that can be coerced to
          such a matrix (such as a numeric vector or a data frame with
          all numeric columns).



On 8/7/06, Ffenics <ffenics2002 at yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
>         Thanks. I had a look at that and it says:
>
>
> Partitioning Clustering:
>
>                Function                            kmeans()                          from package stats provides   several algorithms   for computing partitions with respect to   Euclidean distance.
> Hence why I am using a euclidean distance matrix. Why is this incorrect?
>
> Gabor Grothendieck <ggrothendieck at gmail.com> wrote:
> There are many clustering functions in R and R packages and some
> take distance objects whereas others do not.  You likely read about
> hclust or some different clustering function.  See ?kmeans for the
> kmeans function and also look at the CRAN Task View on clustering for
> other clustering functions:
>
>  http://cran.r-project.org/src/contrib/Views/
>
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