https://andrie.github.io/ggdendro/

Tools to extract dendrogram plot data for use with 'ggplot2'
https://andrie.github.io/ggdendro/

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Tools to extract dendrogram plot data for use with 'ggplot2'

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://andrie.github.io/ggdendro/
• Owner: andrie
• Created: 2011-08-06T20:35:39.000Z (over 14 years ago)
• Default Branch: main
• Last Pushed: 2025-11-19T13:10:19.000Z (7 days ago)
• Last Synced: 2025-11-19T15:15:00.890Z (7 days ago)
• Topics: ggplot2, r, r-package, r-stats
• Language: R
• Homepage: http://andrie.github.io/ggdendro/
• Size: 13.4 MB
• Stars: 86
• Watchers: 7
• Forks: 12
• Open Issues: 4
• Metadata Files:
  • Readme: README.Rmd
  • Changelog: NEWS.md

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README

          
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# ggdendro 

Provides functions for creating dendrograms and tree plots using `ggplot2`.

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The `ggdendro` package offers a generic function to extract data and text from the various clustering models:

* `dendro_data()` extracts cluster information from the model object, e.g. cluster allocation, line segment data or label data.

The `dendro_data` object has methods for the following classes:-

* `tree`

* `hclust`

* `dendrogram`

* `rpart`

These methods create an object of class `dendro`, which is essentially a list of data frames.  To extract the relevant data frames from the list, use the three accessor functions:

* `segment()` for the line segment data

* `label()` for the text for each end segment

* `leaf_label()` for the leaf labels of a tree diagram

The results of these functions can then be passed to `ggplot()` for plotting.

## Examples

```{r}

library(ggplot2)

library(ggdendro)

hc <- hclust(dist(USArrests), "ave")

hcdata <- dendro_data(hc, type = "rectangle")

ggplot() +

  geom_segment(data = segment(hcdata), 

               aes(x = x, y = y, xend = xend, yend = yend)

  ) +

  geom_text(data = label(hcdata), 

            aes(x = x, y = y, label = label, hjust = 0), 

            size = 3

  ) +

  coord_flip() +

  scale_y_reverse(expand = c(0.2, 0))

### demonstrate plotting directly from object class hclust

ggdendrogram(hc)

ggdendrogram(hc, rotate = TRUE)

### demonstrate converting hclust to dendro using dendro_data first

hcdata <- dendro_data(hc)

ggdendrogram(hcdata, rotate = TRUE) +

  labs(title = "Dendrogram in ggplot2")

```

	    

# Use `dendextend` instead

Most of the functionality in `ggdendro` is included in the excellent `dendextend` package.  In most cases, if you need additional functionality, please use the `dendextend` package instead.

The `ggdendro` package will only get minimal maintenance in future.

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