Dr. Herwig Meschke
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On 12 Dec 2005 at 21:15, Diaz.Ramon wrote:
> Dear All,
>
> How can the height of a leaf be extracted from a dendrogram?
>
> Sure, I can print it, but I am not able to, say, store it in an object. I think I understand that the height is a
property of the split, not the leaf itself, but the printing functions display a "height" or "h" (which changes with
"hang") and that is what I want. Obviously, the info is there (e.g., "str(dendrogram)"), I just don't see how to
obtain it as I want.
>
>
>
> hc <- hclust(dist(USArrests), "ave")
> hcd <- as.dendrogram(hc, hang = 0.001)
>
>
> dendrapply(rev(hcd), hnode)
>
> ## None of the following work as I want
>
> hnode <- function(x) {
> ## nothing
> if (is.leaf(x))
> print(x$height)
> }
>
>
> hnode <- function(x) {
> ## just prints
> if (is.leaf(x))
> print(x)
> else
> NULL
> }
>
>
> hnode <- function(x) {
> ## doesn't work either
> if (is.leaf(x))
> strsplit(as.character(x), " ")[6]
> else
> NULL
> }
>
> hnode <- function(x) {
> ## prints; no storing
> if (is.leaf(x))
> print(x)
> else
> NULL
> }
>
> hnode <- function(x) {
> ## prints; no storing
> if (is.leaf(x))
> x
> else
> NULL
> }
>
>
>
>
> Thanks,
>
>
> R.
>
> --
> Ramon Diaz-Uriarte
> Bioinformatics Unit
> Spanish National Cancer Centre (CNIO)
> http://ligarto.org/rdiaz
>
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