\name{Building_Communities} \Rdversion{1.1} \alias{Building_Communities} \title{ Builds the communities from the set of all data points. } \description{ Some sample points are picked up and the points close to each sample point are considered as members of that community. } \usage{ Building_Communities(full, m=3000, space.length=1, community.weakness.threshold=1, talk=TRUE, do.sampling=TRUE) } \arguments{ \item{full}{ The matrix containing the coordinates of all data points. } \item{m}{ Determines an upper bound on the final number of sample points which will be in range \code{m} and 2 \code{m} } \item{space.length}{ An estimate for the length of a cube that is assumed to contain all data points.} \item{community.weakness.threshold}{ The communities with number of members less than this threshold will be ignored. Normally, setting it to 1 is reasonable.} \item{talk}{ A boolean flag with default value TRUE. Setting it to FALSE will keep running the procedure quite with no messages.} \item{do.sampling}{ A boolean flag with default value TRUE. If set to FALSE, the sampling stage will be ignored by picking up all the data points.} } \value{ Returns a society which is a list of communities.} \references{ Zare, H. and Shooshtari, P. and Gupta, A. and Brinkman R.B. (2009). Data Reduction for Spectral Clustering to Analyse High Throughput Flow Cytometry Data. submitted to BMC Bioinformatics. } \author{ Parisa Shooshtari and Habil Zare } %% ~Make other sections like Warning with \section{Warning }{....} ~ \seealso{ \code{\link{SamSPECTRAL}} } \examples{ \dontrun{ library(SamSPECTRAL) # Reading data file which has been transformed using log transform data(small_data) full <- small # Parameters: m <- 3000; ns <- 200; sl <- 3; cwt <-1 # Sample the data and build the communities society <- Building_Communities(full=full,m=m, space.length=sl, community.weakness.threshold=cwt) # Ploting the representatives: plot(full[society$representatives,]) } } % Add one or more standard keywords, see file 'KEYWORDS' in the % R documentation directory. \keyword{cluster}