horizontal dendrogram in R with labels

Question

I am trying to draw a dendrogram from the hclust function output. I hope the dendrogram is horizontally arranged instead of the default, which can be obtain by

Answer 1

Using dendrapply you can customize your dendro as you like.

colLab <- function(n) {
  if(is.leaf(n)) {
    a <- attributes(n)
    attr(n, "label") <- substr(a$label,1,2)             #  change the node label 
    attr(n, "nodePar") <- c(a$nodePar, lab.col = 'red') #   change the node color
  }
  n
}

require(graphics)
hc <- hclust(dist(USArrests), "ave")
clusDendro <- as.dendrogram(hc)
clusDendro <- dendrapply(clusDendro, colLab)
op <- par(mar = par("mar") + c(0,0,0,2))
plot(clusDendro,horiz=T)