So, I and some other colleagues developed a hierarchical clustering algorithm to basically find the main clusters involving agricultural industries according to a particular city (e.g. London city).. We structured this algorithm in R. It is working perfectly. So, according to our filters that we inserted in the algorithm, we were able to generate 6 clustering scenarios to London city. For example, the first scenario generated 2 clusters, the second scenario 5 clusters, and so on. I would therefore like some help on how I can choose the most appropriate one. I saw that there are some packages that help in this process, like `pvclust`, but I couldn't use it for my case. I am inserting a brief executable code below to show the essence of what I want.
Any help is welcome! If you know how to use using another package, feel free to describe. Best Regards. library(rdist) library(geosphere) library(fpc) df<-structure(list(Industries = c(1,2,3,4,5,6), + Latitude = c(-23.8, -23.8, -23.9, -23.7, -23.7,-23.7), + Longitude = c(-49.5, -49.6, -49.7, -49.8, -49.6,-49.9), + Waste = c(526, 350, 526, 469, 534, 346)), class = "data.frame", row.names = c(NA, -6L)) df1<-df #clusters coordinates<-df[c("Latitude","Longitude")] d<-as.dist(distm(coordinates[,2:1])) fit.average<-hclust(d,method="average") clusters<-cutree(fit.average, k=2) df$cluster <- clusters > df Industries Latitude Longitude Waste cluster 1 1 -23.8 -49.5 526 1 2 2 -23.8 -49.6 350 1 3 3 -23.9 -49.7 526 1 4 4 -23.7 -49.8 469 2 5 5 -23.7 -49.6 534 1 6 6 -23.7 -49.9 346 2 > clusters1<-cutree(fit.average, k=5) df1$cluster <- clusters1 > df1 Industries Latitude Longitude Waste cluster 1 1 -23.8 -49.5 526 1 2 2 -23.8 -49.6 350 1 3 3 -23.9 -49.7 526 2 4 4 -23.7 -49.8 469 3 5 5 -23.7 -49.6 534 4 6 6 -23.7 -49.9 346 5 > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see 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.