“Specifying an appropriate dissimilarity measure is far more important in obtaining success with clustering than choice of clustering algorithm. This aspect of the problem is emphasized less in the clustering literature than the algorithms themselves, since it depends on domain specific knowledge specifics and is less amenable to general research.”
-Hastie, Tibshirani and Friedman, Elements of Statistical Learning, p. 506
This package will be submitted to CRAN once it versions beyond 0.0.0.9000, and/or once its small but crucial dependency on a BioConductor package (“graph”) and a Github package (“trelliscopejs”) have been sorted out. Until then, for installation run the following:
NOTE: PreciseDist requires R >= 3.4.0
install.packages(“devtools”)
library(devtools)
devtools::install_github(“bmuchmore/PreciseDist”)
library(PreciseDist)