R: A dataset containing clusters of multiple shapes

multishapes {factoextra} | R Documentation

## A dataset containing clusters of multiple shapes

### Description

Data containing clusters of any shapes. Useful for comparing density-based clustering (DBSCAN) and standard partitioning methods such as k-means clustering.

### Usage

    data("multishapes")

### Format

A data frame with 1100 observations on the following 3 variables.

`x`

  a numeric vector containing the x coordinates of observations

`y`

  a numeric vector containing the y coordinates of observations

`shape`

  a numeric vector corresponding to the cluster number of each observations.

### Details

The dataset contains 5 clusters and some outliers/noises.

### Examples

    data(multishapes)
    plot(multishapes[,1], multishapes[, 2],
        col = multishapes[, 3], pch = 19, cex = 0.8)

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