[R] Two way joining vs heatmap

Schalk Heunis schalk.heunis at enerweb.co.za
Mon Aug 31 20:42:02 CEST 2009


Levi

Thanks for the reply, do you know of any function or package that does
contain an implementation of two-way joining?  I looked at the biclust
package which implements several other (more modern?)  bi-clustering
techniques, but could not find two-way joining.

Schalk Heunis




On Mon, Aug 31, 2009 at 6:21 PM, Levi
Waldron<lwaldron.research at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Schalk,
> the heatmap function does not implement "two-way joining" as far as I know.
> It clusters rows and columns independently.  However if you find or program
> a method that implements two-way joining, you could use the row and column
> ordering it returns in your heatmap using the Rowv and Colv arguments to
> heatmap.
> -levi
>
> On Mon, Aug 31, 2009 at 2:25 AM, Schalk Heunis <schalk.heunis at enerweb.co.za>
> wrote:
>>
>> Hi
>>
>> STATISTICA has a function called "Two-way joining" (see
>> http://www.statsoft.com/TEXTBOOK/stcluan.html#twotwo) and the
>> reference material states that this is based on the method as
>> published by Hartigan (found this paper:
>> http://www.jstor.org/pss/2284710 through wikipedia).
>>
>> What is the relationship (if any) between the "heatmap" function in R
>> and this technique? Is there an alternative function to use?
>>
>> Thanks for the help!
>> Schalk Heunis
>>
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