How can I perform a K-means cluster analysis of the data inside a cell array?

I have a cell array - 10368 cells with two values each. I would like to perform a K-means cluster analysis of this data, but every time I try, I get the following error messages:

Undefined function 'isnan' for input arguments of type 'cell'.

Error in statremovenan (line 29) wasnan = wasnan | any(isnan(y),2);

Error in kmeans (line 125) [~,wasnan,X] = statremovenan(X);

How can I solve this problem?

[Azzi Abdelmalek]

Post your code

[Patrick]

idx=kmeans(X,5);

where X is my cell array, and I want 5 clusters of that data

Answer 1

[Jonathan LeSage]

The documentation of the kmeans function that you are trying to use requires a data matrix as an input. The cell array cannot be used, and hence your error.

Since your data seems to be a 10368x2 cell array, you could try out the cell2mat function to first convert your data into a 10368x2 data matrix. From there, the kmeans function should work as expected!

[seyed morteza mousavi]

dear,i want kmeans clustering, i use kdd cup99 data base that is a table and have 41 features and 42th feature is class type(attack, normal,...) and 158560rows, feature 2 and 3 and 4 and 42 is not numerical and they are categorical and have character for example tcp,http,sf,... i use table2cell for following your order and when i use cell2mat matlab say that error: contents of the input cell array must be on the same type, before that i use kmeans for basic table and matlab say that: cannot accept complex data , what shoud i dooooo please help me