Hierarchical clustering can be agglomerative or divisive code example

Example 1: hierarchical clustering Agglomerative

# Load the data
data("USArrests")

# Standardize the data
df <- scale(USArrests)

# Show the first 6 rows
head(df, nrow = 6)

Example 2: hierarchical clustering Agglomerative

##            Alabama Alaska Arizona Arkansas California Colorado
## Alabama       0.00   2.70    2.29     1.29       3.26     2.65
## Alaska        2.70   0.00    2.70     2.83       3.01     2.33
## Arizona       2.29   2.70    0.00     2.72       1.31     1.37
## Arkansas      1.29   2.83    2.72     0.00       3.76     2.83
## California    3.26   3.01    1.31     3.76       0.00     1.29
## Colorado      2.65   2.33    1.37     2.83       1.29     0.00