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Details below reflect version 1.1, its last release before removal.

LCAvarsel

1.1

Variable Selection for Latent Class Analysis

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Overview

About

Maintained by Michael Fop2 releasesCRAN page ↗

Variable selection for latent class analysis for model-based clustering of multivariate categorical data. The package implements a general framework for selecting the subset of variables with relevant clustering information and discard those that are redundant and/or not informative. The variable selection method is based on the approach of Fop et al. (2017) doi:10.1214/17-AOAS1061 and Dean and Raftery (2010) doi:10.1007/s10463-009-0258-9. Different algorithms are available to perform the selection: stepwise, swap-stepwise and evolutionary stochastic search. Concomitant covariates used to predict the class membership probabilities can also be included in the latent class analysis model. The selection procedure can be run in parallel on multiple cores machines.

Install

R (source archive)Ubuntu (r2u)openSUSE (OBS)

url <- "https://cran.r-project.org/src/contrib/Archive/LCAvarsel/LCAvarsel_1.1.tar.gz"
pkgFile <- "LCAvarsel_1.1.tar.gz"
download.file(url, pkgFile)
install.packages(pkgFile, type = "source", repos = NULL)

This package is no longer on CRAN, so install.packages() cannot fetch it by name. This downloads the last archived source (1.1) and builds it locally. Install its dependencies first, and note that building from source needs the usual compiler toolchain.

Release

# enable cranapt (r2u) if it is not already set up, then install
grep -rqs r2u.stat.illinois.edu /etc/apt/sources.list /etc/apt/sources.list.d/ \
  || curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/eddelbuettel/r2u/master/inst/scripts/add_cranapt_noble.sh | sudo bash
sudo apt install -y r-cran-lcavarsel

Fast Ubuntu binaries via r2u (no compilation). The cranapt setup runs once and is skipped when it is already enabled.

bspm (used by r2u) also needs make: sudo apt install make

# add the autoCRAN OBS repo (Tumbleweed) if it is missing, then install
zypper -q lr | grep -qi autoCRAN \
  || sudo zypper addrepo https://download.opensuse.org/repositories/devel:/languages:/R:/autoCRAN/openSUSE_Tumbleweed/devel:languages:R:autoCRAN.repo
sudo zypper install -y R-LCAvarsel

RPMs auto-built from CRAN on openSUSE OBS (Tumbleweed).

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Documented parameters: 96%
Return-value docs: 100%
References docs: 67%

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Dependencies

Declared dependencies

7 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Depends (2)

R >= 3.4poLCA

Imports (7)

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Suggests (2)

knitr rmarkdown

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Code & Tests

People & History

People (2)

Maintainer (1)

Michael Fop

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Authors (1)

Michael Fop

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Contributors (1)

Thomas Brendan Murphy

Contributor

Package Timeline

2 releases. Pick two to compare their code metrics. R releases are shown for context.

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R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
archivedRemoved from CRAN
2025-06-13
issues were not corrected despite reminders
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R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11
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R 4.4.0 released · 2024-04-24
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R 4.3.0 released · 2023-04-21
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R 4.2.0 released · 2022-04-22
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R 4.1.0 released · 2021-05-18
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R 4.0.0 released · 2020-04-24
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R 3.6.0 released · 2019-04-26
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R 3.5.0 released · 2018-04-23
1.1
2018-01-04 · diff ↗
1.0
2017-11-20
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R 3.4.0 released · 2017-04-21

Package metadata

Total releases: 2
License: GPL (>= 2) OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 3.4
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