Data

data("USArrests") # Load the data set
df <- scale(USArrests) # Scale the data
head(df, n = 3) # View the firt 3 rows of the data

##             Murder   Assault   UrbanPop         Rape
## Alabama 1.24256408 0.7828393 -0.5209066 -0.003416473
## Alaska  0.50786248 1.1068225 -1.2117642  2.484202941
## Arizona 0.07163341 1.4788032  0.9989801  1.042878388

Loading Packages

library(cluster)

## Warning: package 'cluster' was built under R version 3.6.2

library(factoextra)

## Warning: package 'factoextra' was built under R version 3.6.2

## Loading required package: ggplot2

## Registered S3 methods overwritten by 'ggplot2':
##   method         from 
##   [.quosures     rlang
##   c.quosures     rlang
##   print.quosures rlang

## Welcome! Want to learn more? See two factoextra-related books at https://goo.gl/ve3WBa

Determining the Optimum number of Clusters

fviz_nbclust(df,pam,method="silhouette")+
  theme_classic()

From the plot the suggested number of clusters is 2. Lets compute PAM with k=2

pam.res <- pam(df,2)
print(pam.res)

## Medoids:
##            ID     Murder    Assault   UrbanPop       Rape
## New Mexico 31  0.8292944  1.3708088  0.3081225  1.1603196
## Nebraska   27 -0.8008247 -0.8250772 -0.2445636 -0.5052109
## Clustering vector:
##        Alabama         Alaska        Arizona       Arkansas     California 
##              1              1              1              2              1 
##       Colorado    Connecticut       Delaware        Florida        Georgia 
##              1              2              2              1              1 
##         Hawaii          Idaho       Illinois        Indiana           Iowa 
##              2              2              1              2              2 
##         Kansas       Kentucky      Louisiana          Maine       Maryland 
##              2              2              1              2              1 
##  Massachusetts       Michigan      Minnesota    Mississippi       Missouri 
##              2              1              2              1              1 
##        Montana       Nebraska         Nevada  New Hampshire     New Jersey 
##              2              2              1              2              2 
##     New Mexico       New York North Carolina   North Dakota           Ohio 
##              1              1              1              2              2 
##       Oklahoma         Oregon   Pennsylvania   Rhode Island South Carolina 
##              2              2              2              2              1 
##   South Dakota      Tennessee          Texas           Utah        Vermont 
##              2              1              1              2              2 
##       Virginia     Washington  West Virginia      Wisconsin        Wyoming 
##              2              2              2              2              2 
## Objective function:
##    build     swap 
## 1.441358 1.368969 
## 
## Available components:
##  [1] "medoids"    "id.med"     "clustering" "objective"  "isolation" 
##  [6] "clusinfo"   "silinfo"    "diss"       "call"       "data"

If you want to add this classification in your original data then

dd <- cbind(USArrests,cluster=pam.res$cluster)
head(dd,n=3)

##         Murder Assault UrbanPop Rape cluster
## Alabama   13.2     236       58 21.2       1
## Alaska    10.0     263       48 44.5       1
## Arizona    8.1     294       80 31.0       1

*** Accessing to the result of the pam() Function ***

# cluster medioids: New Mexico, Nebraska
pam.res$medoids

##                Murder    Assault   UrbanPop       Rape
## New Mexico  0.8292944  1.3708088  0.3081225  1.1603196
## Nebraska   -0.8008247 -0.8250772 -0.2445636 -0.5052109

#cluster numbers
head(pam.res$clustering)

##    Alabama     Alaska    Arizona   Arkansas California   Colorado 
##          1          1          1          2          1          1

*** Visualising PAM clusters ***

fviz_cluster(pam.res,
palette = c("#00AFBB", "#FC4E07"), # color palette
ellipse.type = "t", # Concentration ellipse
repel = TRUE, # Avoid label overplotting (slow)
ggtheme = theme_classic()
)