ConsensusClusterPlus (version 1.36.0)

ConsensusClusterPlus: run ConsensusClusterPlus

Description

ConsensusClusterPlus function for determing cluster number and class membership by stability evidence. calcICL function for calculating cluster-consensus and item-consensus.

Usage

ConsensusClusterPlus(
d=NULL, maxK = 3, reps=10, pItem=0.8, pFeature=1, clusterAlg="hc",title="untitled_consensus_cluster",
innerLinkage="average", finalLinkage="average", distance="pearson", ml=NULL,
tmyPal=NULL,seed=NULL,plot=NULL,writeTable=FALSE,weightsItem=NULL,weightsFeature=NULL,verbose=F,corUse="everything")
calcICL(res,title="untitled_consensus_cluster",plot=NULL,writeTable=FALSE)

Arguments

d

data to be clustered; either a data matrix where columns=items/samples and rows are features. For example, a gene expression matrix of genes in rows and microarrays in columns, or ExpressionSet object, or a distance object (only for cases of no feature resampling)

maxK

integer value. maximum cluster number to evaluate.

reps

integer value. number of subsamples.

pItem

numerical value. proportion of items to sample.

pFeature

numerical value. proportion of features to sample.

clusterAlg

character value. cluster algorithm. 'hc' heirarchical (hclust), 'pam' for paritioning around medoids, 'km' for k-means upon data matrix, 'kmdist' for k-means upon distance matrices (former km option), or a function that returns a clustering. See example and vignette for more details.

title

character value for output directory. Directory is created only if plot is not NULL or writeTable is TRUE. This title can be an abosulte or relative path.

innerLinkage

heirarchical linkage method for subsampling.

finalLinkage

heirarchical linkage method for consensus matrix.

distance

character value. 'pearson': (1 - Pearson correlation), 'spearman' (1 - Spearman correlation), 'euclidean', 'binary', 'maximum', 'canberra', 'minkowski" or custom distance function.

ml

optional. prior result, if supplied then only do graphics and tables.

tmyPal

optional character vector of colors for consensus matrix

seed

optional numerical value. sets random seed for reproducible results.

plot

character value. NULL - print to screen, 'pdf', 'png', 'pngBMP' for bitmap png, helpful for large datasets.

writeTable

logical value. TRUE - write ouput and log to csv.

weightsItem

optional numerical vector. weights to be used for sampling items.

weightsFeature

optional numerical vector. weights to be used for sampling features.

res

result of consensusClusterPlus.

verbose

boolean. If TRUE, print messages to the screen to indicate progress. This is useful for large datasets.

corUse

optional character value. specifies how to handle missing data in correlation distances 'everything','pairwise.complete.obs', 'complete.obs' see cor() for description.

Value

ConsensusClusterPlus returns a list of length maxK. Each element is a list containing consensusMatrix (numerical matrix), consensusTree (hclust), consensusClass (consensus class asssignments). ConsensusClusterPlus also produces images.calcICL returns a list of two elements clusterConsensus and itemConsensus corresponding to cluster-consensus and item-consensus. See Monti, et al (2003) for formulas.

Details

ConsensusClusterPlus implements the Consensus Clustering algorithm of Monti, et al (2003) and extends this method with new functionality and visualizations. Its utility is to provide quantitative stability evidence for determing a cluster count and cluster membership in an unsupervised analysis.

ConsensusClusterPlus takes a numerical data matrix of items as columns and rows as features. This function subsamples this matrix according to pItem, pFeature, weightsItem, and weightsFeature, and clusters the data into 2 to maxK clusters by clusterArg clusteringAlgorithm. Agglomerative heirarchical (hclust) and kmeans clustering are supported by an option see above. For users wishing to use a different clustering algorithm for which many are available in R, one can supply their own clustering algorithm as a simple programming hook - see the second commented-out example that uses divisive heirarchical clustering.

For a detailed description of usage, output and images, see the vignette by: openVignette().

References

Please cite the ConsensusClusterPlus publication, below, if you use ConsensusClusterPlus in a publication or presentation: Wilkerson, M.D., Hayes, D.N. (2010). ConsensusClusterPlus: a class discovery tool with confidence assessments and item tracking. Bioinformatics, 2010 Jun 15;26(12):1572-3.

Original description of the Consensus Clustering method: Monti, S., Tamayo, P., Mesirov, J., Golub, T. (2003) Consensus Clustering: A Resampling-Based Method for Class Discovery and Visualization of Gene Expression Microarray Data. Machine Learning, 52, 91-118.

Examples

# obtain gene expression data
library(Biobase)
data(geneData)
d=geneData
#median center genes
dc = sweep(d,1, apply(d,1,median))

# run consensus cluster, with standard options
rcc = ConsensusClusterPlus(dc,maxK=4,reps=100,pItem=0.8,pFeature=1,title="example",distance="pearson",clusterAlg="hc")

# same as above but with pre-computed distance matrix, useful for large datasets (>1,000's of items)
dt = as.dist(1-cor(dc,method="pearson"))
rcc2 = ConsensusClusterPlus(dt,maxK=4,reps=100,pItem=0.8,pFeature=1,title="example2",distance="pearson",clusterAlg="hc")

# k-means clustering
rcc3 = ConsensusClusterPlus(d,maxK=4,reps=100,pItem=0.8,pFeature=1,title="example3",distance="euclidean",clusterAlg="km")


### partition around medoids clustering with manhattan distance
rcc4 = ConsensusClusterPlus(d,maxK=4,reps=100,pItem=0.8,pFeature=1,title="example3",distance="manhattan",clusterAlg="pam")

## example of custom distance function as hook:
myDistFunc = function(x){ dist(x,method="manhattan")}
rcc5 = ConsensusClusterPlus(d,maxK=4,reps=100,pItem=0.8,pFeature=1,title="example3",distance="myDistFunc",clusterAlg="pam")


##example of clusterAlg as hook:
#library(cluster)
#dianaHook = function(this_dist,k){
#  tmp = diana(this_dist,diss=TRUE)
#  assignment = cutree(tmp,k)
#  return(assignment)  
#}
#rcc6 = ConsensusClusterPlus(d,maxK=6,reps=25,pItem=0.8,pFeature=1,title="example",clusterAlg="dianaHook")




## ICL
resICL = calcICL(rcc,title="example")