Searching for Optimal Clustering Procedure for a Data Set R package clusterSim version 0.51-6 CRAN Task View: Cluster (https://CRAN.R-project.org/view=Cluster) Distance measures (GDM1, GDM2, Sokal-Michener, Bray-Curtis, for symbolic interval-valued data), cluster quality indices (Calinski-Harabasz, Baker-Hubert, Hubert-Levine, Silhouette, Krzanowski-Lai, Hartigan, Gap, Davies-Bouldin), data normalization formulas (metric data, interval-valued symbolic data), data generation (typical and non-typical data), HINoV method, replication analysis, linear ordering methods, spectral clustering, agreement indices between two partitions, plot functions (for categorical and symbolic interval-valued data). (MILLIGAN, G.W., COOPER, M.C. (1985) <doi:10.1007/BF02294245>, HUBERT, L., ARABIE, P. (1985) <doi:10.1007%2FBF01908075>, RAND, W.M. (1971) <doi:10.1080/01621459.1971.10482356>, JAJUGA, K., WALESIAK, M. (2000) <doi:10.1007/978-3-642-57280-7_11>, MILLIGAN, G.W., COOPER, M.C. (1988) <doi:10.1007/BF01897163>, JAJUGA, K., WALESIAK, M., BAK, A. (2003) <doi:10.1007/978-3-642-55721-7_12>, DAVIES, D.L., BOULDIN, D.W. (1979) <doi:10.1109/TPAMI.1979.4766909>, CALINSKI, T., HARABASZ, J. (1974) <doi:10.1080/03610927408827101>, HUBERT, L. (1974) <doi:10.1080/01621459.1974.10480191>, TIBSHIRANI, R., WALTHER, G., HASTIE, T. (2001) <doi:10.1111/1467-9868.00293>, BRECKENRIDGE, J.N. (2000) <doi:10.1207/S15327906MBR3502_5>, WALESIAK, M., DUDEK, A. (2008) <doi:10.1007/978-3-540-78246-9_11>). Software Depends: R (>= 3.5.0), cluster, MASS Imports: ade4, e1071, grDevices, graphics, stats, utils Suggests: mlbench, testthat Andrzej Dudek <andrzej.dudek@ue.wroc.pl> Comprehensive R Archive Network (CRAN) Marek Walesiak [aut] (ORCID: <https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0922-2323>), Andrzej Dudek [aut, cre] (ORCID: <https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4943-8703>) GPL (>= 2) 2026-01-19 application/tgz https://CRAN.R-project.org/package=clusterSim doi:10.32614/CRAN.package.clusterSim