[R] mva - kmeans (repetitive requests)

[Prof Brian Ripley]

> Date: Mon, 18 Dec 2000 13:08:20 +0000
> From: Athula Herath <Athula.Herath at ogs.co.uk>
> 
> 
> Hi All,
> 
> Should I get two different results if I were to repeat the kmeans
> clustering on the same data set?

[Using kmeans(iris[1:4],5,20)]

Yes.  It starts with a random sample from the dataset.

> In S-Plus (2000)  the repetitive executions gives us the same result.

S-PLUS (6.0) uses 

# if starting values not specified use hclust to get them

so the algorithm is different.

> Are these  results  generated by R consistent?

Consistent with what?

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