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Create a centroid-based clustering model in R

Create a centroid-based clustering model in R

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Create a centroid-based clustering model in R

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- [Tutor] Many R packages implement cluster analysis algorithms, but I've selected one that uses a centroid-based method to identify its clusters. That's the type of method that I demonstrated in the previous movie. In this movie I will show you how to identify clusters in R using data you import from a CSV data file. I've started off at a blank console in R, and I will actually increase the size of my console window a bit so I don't have to wrap lines. The first thing to do is to load our data into a data frame. So I will start by typing the name of the variable. I'll just make it sales, and then the assignment operator, a less than sign followed by a hyphen, looks like a left-pointing arrow. Now we need to use the read.table method. So I'll do read.table, and now I need to identify the file using its full path on my system, the separator character, and also whether there's a header row or not. So I'll start by typing a…

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