[R-sig-Geo] Geographic/Spatial Clustering - pyCluster for R?

[Roger Bivand]

On Wed, 10 Feb 2016, Mark R Payne wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I have recently stumbled across the pyCluster package in Python that does
> Geographical/Spatial clustering i.e. aggregating spatial pixels/polygons
> together based on both their "similarity" and being geographical neighbours
> - see here: https://pypi.python.org/pypi/clusterPy/0.9.9
>
> Does anyone know of an interface to use this library in R, or an
> implementation of similar tools in R?

Feel free to contribute an interface. There is spdep::skater for 
regionalisation, and some functions in DCluster answering rather 
different questions - my guess is that Skater is more efficient than these 
largely legacy methods. However, comparisons would be very useful.

Roger

>
> The clustering algorithms availabe in the package are:
>
>   - Arisel [Duque_Church2004]
>   <https://pypi.python.org/pypi/clusterPy/0.9.9#duque-church2004>:
>   - AZP [Openshaw_Rao1995]
>   <https://pypi.python.org/pypi/clusterPy/0.9.9#openshaw-rao1995>:
>   - AZP-Simulated Annealing [Openshaw_Rao1995]
>   <https://pypi.python.org/pypi/clusterPy/0.9.9#openshaw-rao1995>.
>   - AZP-Tabu [Openshaw_Rao1995]
>   <https://pypi.python.org/pypi/clusterPy/0.9.9#openshaw-rao1995>.
>   - AZP-R-Tabu [Openshaw_Rao1995]
>   <https://pypi.python.org/pypi/clusterPy/0.9.9#openshaw-rao1995>.
>   - Max-p-regions (Tabu) [Duque_Anselin_Rey2010]
>   <https://pypi.python.org/pypi/clusterPy/0.9.9#duque-anselin-rey2010>.
>   - AMOEBA [Alstadt_Getis2006]
>   <https://pypi.python.org/pypi/clusterPy/0.9.9#alstadt-getis2006>,
>   [Duque_Alstadt_Velasquez_Franco_Betancourt2010]
>   <https://pypi.python.org/pypi/clusterPy/0.9.9#duque-alstadt-velasquez-franco-betancourt2010>
>   .
>   - SOM [Kohonen1990]
>   <https://pypi.python.org/pypi/clusterPy/0.9.9#kohonen1990>.
>   - geoSOM [Bacao_Lobo_Painho2004]
>   <https://pypi.python.org/pypi/clusterPy/0.9.9#bacao-lobo-painho2004>.
>   - Random
>
> Best wishes,
>
> Mark
>
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