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kohonen (version 3.0.13)

Supervised and Unsupervised Self-Organising Maps

Description

Functions to train self-organising maps (SOMs). Also interrogation of the maps and prediction using trained maps are supported. The name of the package refers to Teuvo Kohonen, the inventor of the SOM.

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install.packages('kohonen')

Monthly Downloads

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Version

3.0.13

License

GPL (>= 2)

Maintainer

Ron Wehrens

Last Published

January 22nd, 2026

Functions in kohonen (3.0.13)

expandMap

Expand a self-organising map
classvec2classmat

Convert a classification vector into a matrix or the other way around.
map.kohonen

Map data to a supervised or unsupervised SOM
kohonen-package

tools:::Rd_package_title("kohonen")
object.distances

Calculate distances between object vectors in a SOM
getCodes

Extract codebook vectors from a kohonen object
check.whatmap

Check the validity of a whatmap argument
degelder

Powder pattern data by Rene de Gelder
layer.distances

Assessing distances to winning units
tricolor

Provides smooth unit colors for SOMs
nir

Near-infrared data with temperature effects
peppaPic

Synthetic image of a pepper plant with peppers
unit.distances

SOM-grid related functions
yeast

Yeast cell-cycle data
supersom

Self- and super-organising maps
summary.kohonen

Summary and print methods for kohonen objects
predict.kohonen

Predict properties using a trained Kohonen map
wines

Wine data
plot.kohonen

Plot kohonen object