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\name{kmeans}
\alias{kmeans}
\title{
K-Means Clustering
}
\description{
  Perform k-means clustering on a data matrix.
}
\usage{
kmeans(x, centers, iter.max = 10)
}
\arguments{
\item{x}{
A data frame or matrix of data.
}
\item{centers}{
  Either the number of clusters or a set of initial cluster centers.
  If the first, a random set of rows in \code{x} are chosen as the initial
  centers.
}
\item{iter.max}{
  The maximum number of iterations allowed.
}}
\details{
  The data given by \code{x} is clustered by the k-Means algorithm.
  When this terminates, all cluster centres are at to the mean of
  their Voronoi sets (the set of data points which are nearest to
  the cluster centre).

  The algorithm of Hartigan and Wong (1979) is used.
}
\value{
  A list with components:

  \item{cluster}{
    A vector of integers indicating the cluster to which each point is
    allocated.
  }
  \item{centers}{A matrix of cluster centres.}
  \item{withinss}{The within-cluster sum of squares for each cluster.}
  \item{size}{The number of points in each cluster.}
}
\references{
  Hartigan, J.A. and Wong, M.A. (1979).
  A K-means clustering algorithm.
  \emph{Applied Statistics} \bold{28}, 100-108.
}
\examples{
# a 2-dimensional example
x <- rbind(matrix(rnorm(100,sd=0.3),ncol=2),
           matrix(rnorm(100,mean=1,sd=0.3),ncol=2))
cl <- kmeans(x,2,20)
plot(x, col = cl$cluster)
points(cl$centers,col = 1:2,pch = 8)
}
\keyword{multivariate}
\keyword{cluster}