This function expects a set of node id's of a hierarchical clustering object that would define a partition of the leaves. It returns a vector giving the implied clustering of the leaves (analogous to the output of `stats::cutree`).
get_cut_from_merge_id(hc, merge_id)An object of class `hclust`
A numeric vector. Indexing of nodes should match that of the `merge` matrix in an `hclust` object. In particular, positive numbers specify interior nodes and negative numbers specify leaves. These nodes must define a partition of the leaves, meaning no node in `merge_id` should be a descendant of another and every leaf should either be included directly or be the descendant of one of the interior nodes referenced by `merge_id`.