as.hclust {mva}

R Documentation

Convert Objects to Class hclust

Description

Converts objects from other hierarchical clustering functions to class "hclust".

Usage

as.hclust(x, ...)
as.hclust.twins(x, ...)

Arguments

x	Hierarchical clustering object
...	further arguments passed to or from other methods.

Details

Currently there is only support for converting objects of class "twins" as produced by the functions diana and agnes from the package ‘cluster’.

Value

An object of class "hclust".

See Also

hclust, diana, agnes

Examples

## Not run: 
x <- matrix(rnorm(30), ncol=3)
hc <- hclust(dist(x), method="complete")

library(cluster)
ag <- agnes(x, method="complete")

x11()
par(mfrow=c(1,2))
plot(hc)
mtext("hclust", side=1)
plot(as.hclust(ag))
mtext("agnes", side=1)

## End(Not run)