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dendsort

Modular Leaf Ordering Methods for Dendrogram Nodes

v0.3.4 · Apr 20, 2021 · GPL-2 | GPL-3

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An implementation of functions to optimize ordering of nodes in a dendrogram, without affecting the meaning of the dendrogram. A dendrogram can be sorted based on the average distance of subtrees, or based on the smallest distance value. These sorting methods improve readability and interpretability of tree structure, especially for tasks such as comparison of different distance measures or linkage types and identification of tight clusters and outliers. As a result, it also introduces more meaningful reordering for a coupled heatmap visualization. This method is described in "dendsort: modular leaf ordering methods for dendrogram representations in R", F1000Research 2014, 3: 177 <doi:10.12688/f1000research.4784.1>.

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Version History

new 0.3.4 Mar 10, 2026
updated 0.3.4 ← 0.3.3 diff Apr 19, 2021
updated 0.3.3 ← 0.3.2 diff Dec 13, 2015
updated 0.3.2 ← 0.3.1 diff Sep 28, 2014
updated 0.3.1 ← 0.2.1 diff Sep 26, 2014
updated 0.2.1 ← 0.2.0 diff Jun 16, 2014
updated 0.2.0 ← 0.1.1 diff Mar 13, 2014
new 0.1.1 Feb 28, 2014