[R-sig-Geo] complete linkage Agglomerative hierarchical clustering, nnclust, spatclus or something else?

[Hans Ekbrand]

On Wed, Apr 21, 2010 at 03:14:46PM +0200, Roger Bivand wrote:
> On Wed, 21 Apr 2010, Hans Ekbrand wrote:

[...]

>> Well, hclust was useful, once I understood how cutree works. What
>> would be the benefit of dnearneigh(), is it faster?
>>
>
> For larger data sets, hclust needs a triangular distance matrix,  
> dnearneigh does not. Finding graph components in the output "nb" object  
> also seems conceptually more direct. 

OK, good to know if I run into trouble when using the code on larger
data-sets later on.
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