[R] swiss.x

[Prof Brian Ripley]

On Thu, 9 Sep 2004, T. Murlidharan Nair wrote:

> Is the swiss data set in R the same as S dataset swiss.x .

If that is meant to be a question, no.

> I was trying out some clustering by doing the following that I got from
> Venables and Ripley's book.

Not from the current edition, p. 317.

> h<-hclus(dist(swiss.x), method= "connected")
> plclust(h)
> cutree(h,3)
> plclust(clorder(h,cutree(h,3)))
> 
> I tried swiss instead of swiss.x, it doesnot seem happy.

If you want to use our book with R, please use the 2002 edition that
covers R. In the MASS package you will find R versions of the scripts for
(one of our books), as documented in the book and the book's website.

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