[R] Advice on exploration of sub-clusters in hierarchical dendrogram

[R. Michael Weylandt <michael.weylandt@gmail.com>]

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On Feb 23, 2012, at 6:20 PM, kosmo7 <dnicolgr at hotmail.com> wrote:

> Dear Elai,
> thank you very much for your suggestion. I tried cutting the dendrogram
> instead of the hclust tree with:
> clusters<-cut(x, h=1.6)
> 
> but then when I try to call/plot cluster 1 for example, with:
> plot(clusters$lower[[1]])
> 
> I get only 2 members that are joined together at distance=0  (cluster 1 for
> instance, consists of several hundred of members).
> So it looks like / plot(clusters$lower[[1]])/ only calls the very first node
> of the tree and not the content of the respective cluster [[1]] at the
> defined cutoff=1.6. Maybe /cut/ instead of /cutree/ doesnt do the work? Or 
> maybe I am just doing something  wrong?...
> 
> 
> 
> In another post I read that with /df[value %in% v, ] / I can extract
> specific subsets of a data frame/table. 

That was me and there's a slight mistake in that post (corrected by Sarah): should be

df[df$value %in% v, ]

Sorry for any confusion that might have caused 

Michael
> Maybe I could use this to extract
> only the distances of members of a specific cluster as defined by cutree
> from the initial distance matrix? But still, I am afraid I don't get what I
> should use as /value/ and /v/....
> 
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