On 27.01.2011 05:00, Dario Strbenac wrote:
Hello,

In the documentation for agnes in the package 'cluster', it says that NAs are 
allowed, and sure enough it works for a small example like :

m<- matrix(c(
1, 1, 1, 2,
1, NA, 1, 1,
1, 2, 2, 2), nrow = 3, byrow = TRUE)
agnes(m)
Call:    agnes(x = m)
Agglomerative coefficient:  0.1614168
Order of objects:
[1] 1 2 3
Height (summary):
    Min. 1st Qu.  Median    Mean 3rd Qu.    Max.
   1.155   1.247   1.339   1.339   1.431   1.524

Available components:
[1] "order"  "height" "ac"     "merge"  "diss"   "call"   "method" "data"

But I have a large matrix (23371 rows, 50 columns) with some NAs in it and it 
runs for about a minute, then gives an error :

agnes(iMatrix)
Error in agnes(iMatrix) :
   No clustering performed, NA-values in the dissimilarity matrix.

I've also tried getting rid of rows with all NAs in them, and it still gave me 
the same error. Is this a bug in agnes() ? It doesn't seem to fulfil the claim 
made by its documentation.


I haven't looked in the file, but you need to get rid of all NA, or in other words, all rows that contain *any* NA values.

Uwe Ligges



The matrix I'm using can be obtained here :
http://129.94.136.7/file_dump/dario/iMatrix.obj

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Dario Strbenac
Research Assistant
Cancer Epigenetics
Garvan Institute of Medical Research
Darlinghurst NSW 2010
Australia

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