blockcluster: An R Package for Model Based Co-Clustering

Simultaneous clustering of rows and columns, usually designated by bi-clustering, co-clustering or block clustering, is an important technique in two way data analysis. A new standard and efficient approach have been recently proposed based on latent block model [Govaert and Nadif (2003)] which takes into account the block clustering problem on both the individual and variables sets. This article presents our R package for co-clustering of binary, contingency and continuous data blockcluster based on these very models. In this document, we will give a brief review of the model-based block clustering methods, and we will show how the R package blockcluster can be used for co-clustering