Plotting Dendrogram Help Getting Plot to Display Neatly
ngottlieb at marinercapital.com wrote:
I have done a cluster analysis doing: 1-clusNorth <-hclust(dist(Artorious)^2, method="ward") 2-clusNorth$labels <-Artorious$Name ## to show the case names and not numbers 3-dend1 <- as.dendrogram(clusNorth) 4-plot(dend1) My Dendrogram is now showing the names of my cases in the dataframe on the x axis 1 OMNICELL INC COM 2 GETTY IMAGES INC COM 3 INTERCONTINENTALEXCHANGE IN COM 4 OPTIONSXPRESS HLDGS INC COM 5 SUPERIOR WELL SVCS INC COM 6 HCP INC COM 7 SENIOR HSG PPTYS TR SH BEN INT 8 NATIONWIDE HEALTH PPTYS INC COM 9 DUKE REALTY CORP COM NEW 10 HEALTH CARE REIT INC COM 11 POWERSHARES QQQ TRUST UNIT SER 1 12 FLEXTRONICS INTL LTD ORD 13 VENTAS INC COM However with 60 cases the names above are not fitting neatly into plot. Can someone advice on plot Parameters to fix the size of dendrogram and see the full names on X axis?
Hi Neil, If the names are not too crowded, staxlab in the plotrix package might do it. Jim