On Mon, Nov 15, 2010 at 2:07 PM, rchowdhury <rchowdh...@alumni.upenn.edu> wrote: > > Hello, > > I am using the hclust function to cluster some data. I have two separate > files with the same data. The only difference is the order of the data in > the file. For some reason, when I run the two files through the hclust > function, I get two completely different results. > > Does anyone know why this is happening? Does the order of the data matter?
No, order of the data should not matter. However, hclust takes a distance structure, not a matrix, so the problem may be in how you create the distance. Can you provide an example? Peter ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
