Get height attributes from a dendrogram — get_branches

Get height attributes of a dendrogram's branches

get_branches_heights(
  dend,
  sort = TRUE,
  decreasing = FALSE,
  include_leaves = FALSE,
  ...
)

Arguments

dend: a dendrogram.
sort: logical. Should the heights be sorted?
decreasing: logical. Should the sort be increasing or decreasing? Not available for partial sorting.
include_leaves: logical (FALSE). Should the output include the leaves value (0's).
...: not used.

a vector of the dendrogram's nodes heights (excluding leaves).


hc <- hclust(dist(USArrests[1:4, ]), "ave")
dend <- as.dendrogram(hc)
get_branches_heights(dend)
#> [1] 37.17701 54.80041 77.65915