Hi,

  Thanks for the information.But , i am already using set.seed().My problem
is that, when i use column names instead of column indices, the result seems
to be less accurate consistently.Hence, we wanted to understand how kmeans
differentiates between column names and column indices. Is there any way we
can bridge the gap so that we get the same result for column names and
column indices?

Regards,
Raji

On Wed, Apr 6, 2011 at 5:30 PM, Christian Hennig <chrish@stats.ucl.ac.uk>wrote:

> I'm not going to comment on column names, but this is just to make you
> aware that the results of k-means depend on random initialisation.
>
> This means that it is possible that you get different results if you run it
> several times. It basically gives you a local optimum and there may be more
> than one of these.
> Use set.seed to see whether this explains your problem.
>
> Best regards,
> Christian
>
>
> On Wed, 6 Apr 2011, Raji wrote:
>
> Hi All,
>>
>>  I was using the following command for performing kmeans for Iris dataset.
>>
>> Kmeans_model<-kmeans(dataFrame[,c(1,2,3,4)],centers=3)
>>
>> This was giving proper results for me. But, in my application we generate
>> the R commands dynamically and there was a requirement that the column
>> names
>> will be sent instead of column indices to the R commands.Hence, to
>> incorporate this, i tried using the R commands in the following way.
>>
>>
>> kmeans_model<-kmeans((SepalLength+SepalWidth+PetalLength+PetalWidth),centers=3)
>>
>> or
>>
>>
>> kmeans_model<-kmeans(as.matrix(SepalLength,SepalWidth,PetalLength,PetalWidth),centers=3)
>>
>> In both the ways, we found that the results are different from what we saw
>> with the first command (with column indices).
>>
>> can you please let  us know what is going wrong here.If so, can you please
>> let us know how the column names can be used in kmeans to obtain the
>> correct
>> results?
>>
>> Many thanks,
>> Raji
>>
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