how to use birch function in R and i also want to compare the performance of birch and k means clustering

Question

[sithara.ep]

how to use birch function in R,birch pakage is removed from CRAN it shows errors while installing from archive and i also want to compare the performance of birch and k means clustering.please anyone help me thanks in advance

[Michael]

This is not really a bioinformatics question. You can still download from the archive.

Answer 1

[Michael]

Package 'birch' was removed from the CRAN repository.

Formerly available versions can be obtained from the archive.

Archived on 2014-05-30 as long-standing memory access errors leading to segfaults were ignored.

Therefore, your performance comparison might be hampered by implementation errors. You will most likely not get any meaningful performance data with respect to the algorithm itself, instead it will be influenced heavily by the implementation problems of birch. If you want a fair comparison you should either fix the package (might be hard) or look for a different implementation.