[R] Does anyone knows a KMeans ++ package for R?

[Pascal Oettli]

Dear Rui,

Did you have a look at 'pracma' package? There is a 'kmeanspp' function.

Best Regards,
Pascal


Le 29/02/2012 19:52, Rui Esteves a écrit :
> Dear Pascal,
>
>> From Wikipedia:
>
> In applied statistics, k-means++ is an algorithm for choosing the
> initial values (or "seeds") for the k-means clustering algorithm. It
> was proposed in 2007 by David Arthur and Sergei Vassilvitskii, as an
> approximation algorithm for the NP-hard k-means problem—a way of
> avoiding the sometimes poor clusterings found by the standard k-means
> algorithm.
>
> On Wed, Feb 29, 2012 at 11:33 AM, Pascal Oettli
> <oettli at eps.s.u-tokyo.ac.jp>  wrote:
>> Dear Rui,
>>
>> What "++" means?  There is kmeans in "stats" package.
>>
>> Best Regards,
>> Pascal
>>
>>
>> Le 29/02/2012 19:20, Rui Esteves a écrit :
>>>
>>> Dear all.
>>>
>>> I am searching for KMeans ++ for R. I cannot find it.
>>> Do you know any package with it?
>>>
>>> Best regards,
>>> Rui
>>>
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>

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Dr. Pascal Oettli
Project Research Associate
Department of Earth and Planetary Science
Graduate School of Science
The University of Tokyo