SFtools

0.1.0

Space Filling Based Tools for Data Mining

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Overview

About

Maintained by Mohamed LaibFirst published 2017-06-281 releasesCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗

Contains space filling based tools for machine learning and data mining. Some functions offer several computational techniques and deal with the out of memory for large big data by using the ff package.

Install

R (CRAN)pak (dev)Ubuntu (r2u)openSUSE (OBS)

install.packages("SFtools", repos = "https://cloud.r-project.org/")

Installs the current CRAN release. Prebuilt binaries on Windows and macOS.

if (!requireNamespace("pak", quietly = TRUE))
  install.packages("pak", repos = "https://cloud.r-project.org/")
pak::pak("mlaib/SFtools")

Development version from mlaib/SFtools. Installs pak first if it is not already available.

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-sftools

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-SFtools

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

Health

CRAN checks

2NOTE11OK

Failing flavors

NOTE r-devel-linux-x86_64-debian-clang
NOTE r-devel-linux-x86_64-debian-gcc

Slowest check: 1.7 min · r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

Check history

NOTE2026-03-10
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Downloads

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Repository

GitHub ↗ mlaib/sftools

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data-miningspace-filling

License GPL-3.0 · 25 commits · Last activity 2021-02-01

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Dependencies

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3 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

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Imports (5)

wordspace doParallel ffparallelstats

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Listed in earlier versions (2)

Mikhail Kanevski

no longer listed · 0.1.0

Mohamed Laib

no longer listed · 0.1.0

Package Timeline

1 release. R releases are shown for context.

R
R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
0.1.0Latest
2026-03-10 · current release
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R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11

Package metadata

First published: 2017-06-28
Total releases: 1 / 9 yrs
License: GPL-3 OSI
Download size: 5.6 KB
Installed size: not tracked yet
With dependencies: not tracked yet

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