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

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


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)