Machine Learning with R Cookbook - Second Edition

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You can choose a different distance measure and method while performing hierarchical clustering. For more details, you can refer to the documents for dist and hclust:

> ? dist
> ? hclust  

In this recipe, we use hclust to perform agglomerative hierarchical clustering; if you would like to perform divisive hierarchical clustering, you can use the diana function:

1. First, you can use diana to perform divisive hierarchical clustering:

        > dv = diana(customer, metric = "euclidean")  

2. Then, you can use summary to obtain the summary information:

        > summary(dv) 

3. Lastly, you can plot a dendrogram and banner with the plot function:

        > plot(dv)  

If you are interested in drawing a horizontal dendrogram, you can use the dendextend package. ...