R: Merge Two Clusters

merge2Clusters {dynamicTreeCut} | R Documentation

## Merge Two Clusters

### Description

Merge 2 clusters into 1.

### Usage

    merge2Clusters(labels, mainClusterLabel, minorClusterLabel)

### Arguments

`labels` | a vector or factor giving the cluster labels
`mainClusterLabel` | label of the first merged cluster. The merged cluster will have this label.
`minorClusterLabel` | label of the second merged cluster.

### Value

A vector or factor of the merged labels.

### Author(s)

Bin Zhang and Peter Langfelder

### Examples

    options(stringsAsFactors = FALSE);

    # Works with character labels:
    labels = c(rep("grey", 5), rep("blue", 2), rep("red", 3))
    merge2Clusters(labels, "blue", "red")

    # Works with factor labels:
    labelsF = factor(labels)
    merge2Clusters(labelsF, "blue", "red")

    # Works also with numeric labels:

    labelsN = as.numeric(factor(labels))
    labelsN
    merge2Clusters(labelsF, 1, 3)

[Package dynamicTreeCut version 1.63-1 Index]