[R] Labels in ICLUST

[William Revelle]

On Oct 11, 2011, at 2:28 AM, Steve Powell wrote:

> Dear all,
> I can't get the labels slot in ICLUST to accept a character vector.
> library(psych)
> test.data <- Harman74.cor$cov
> ic.out <- ICLUST(test.data,nclusters
> =4,labels=letters[1:ncol(test.data)]) ## Error in !labels : invalid
> argument type
> ic.out <- ICLUST(test.data,nclusters =4,labels=1:ncol(test.data)) ## OK
> 
> Any ideas?
> 
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Steve,
That is a bug in ICLUST.  It is now fixed (as of reading your email) and the updated version should be released this weekend.

In the meantime, a workaround, is to label the columns with the labels you want.

> colnames(test.data ) <- letters[1:ncol(test.data)]
> ic.out <- ICLUST(test.data,4)

Bill



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