[R] which function to use to do classification

[Liaw, Andy]

In addition to Brian's comment, Gordon's book, already in 2nd edition, is
all about clustering, but the title is simply `Classification'.

Andy

From: Sean Davis
> 
> We have to be careful here.  Classification (which is the 
> terminology that the original poster used) is NOT the same as 
> clustering, although the two are often confused.  If the 
> original poster wants to do clustering and examine the 
> results for the presence of three clusters, that is fine and 
> there are many methods for clustering that could be used.  
> However, classification will require a different set of 
> tools.  If the clustering tools already pointed out are not 
> doing what is needed (that is, that Cao actually is 
> interested in clustering and not classification), then 
> perhaps a further explanation of what the problem would help clarify.
> 
> Sean
> 
> 
> On 3/29/06 1:46 AM, "Jacques VESLOT" <jacques.veslot at cirad.fr> wrote:
> 
> > try this (suppose mat is your matrix):
> > 
> > hc <- hclust(dist(mat,"manhattan"), "ward")
> > plot(hc, hang=-1)
> > (x <- identify(hc)) # rightclick to stop
> > cutree(hc, 3)
> > 
> > km<- kmeans(mat, 3)
> > km$cluster
> > km$centers
> > 
> > pam(daisy(mat, metric = "manhattan"), k=3, diss=T)$clust
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > Baoqiang Cao a écrit :
> > 
> >> Thanks!
> >> I tried kmeans, the results is not very positive. Anyway, thanks 
> >> Jacques! Please let me know if you have any other thoughts!
> >> 
> >> Best regards, 
> >>    Baoqiang Cao
> >> 
> >> ======= At 2006-03-29, 00:08:44 you wrote: =======
> >> 
> >>  
> >> 
> >>> if you want to classify rows or columns, read:
> >>> ?hclust
> >>> ?kmeans
> >>> library(cluster)
> >>> ?pam
> >>> 
> >>> 
> >>> Baoqiang Cao a écrit :
> >>> 
> >>>    
> >>> 
> >>>> Dear All,
> >>>> 
> >>>> I have a data, suppose it is an N*M matrix data. All I 
> want is to 
> >>>> classify it into, let see, 3 classes. Which method(s) do 
> you think 
> >>>> is(are) appropriate for this purpose? Any reference will be 
> >>>> welcome! Thanks!
> >>>> 
> >>>> Best,
> >>>> Baoqiang Cao
> >>>> 
> >>>> 
> >>>> 
> >>>> 
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> >>> .
> >>>    
> >>> 
> >> 
> >> = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = =
> >> 
> >> Baoqiang Cao
> >> caobg at email.uc.edu
> >> 2006-03-29
> >> 
> >> 
> >>  
> >> 
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