fastICA

1.2-7

FastICA Algorithms to Perform ICA and Projection Pursuit

22packages depend

387.7Kdownloads / year

49.2%test coverage

13/13checks pass

Overview

About

Maintained by Brian RipleyFirst published 2001-08-1025 releasesCRAN page ↗

Implementation of FastICA algorithm to perform Independent Component Analysis (ICA) and Projection Pursuit.

Install

R (CRAN)Ubuntu (r2u)Fedora (COPR)openSUSE (OBS)

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

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

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-fastica

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

# enable the iucar/cran COPR if it is not already present, then install
ls /etc/yum.repos.d/*iucar*cran*.repo >/dev/null 2>&1 \
  || sudo dnf copr enable -y iucar/cran
sudo dnf install -y R-CRAN-fastICA

RPMs from the iucar/cran COPR, rebuilt from CRAN.

For install.packages() integration in R, also: sudo dnf install R-CoprManager

# 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-fastICA

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

Health

CRAN checks

13OK

Slowest check: 56 s · r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

Code health

Yes

Tests · ratio 0.05

49.2%

Coverage · measured lines

100%

Documentation · exports

Dependencies · direct

Check history

OK2026-03-10
14 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE

Documentation

READMENoVignettesNopkgdown siteNoNEWSNoCode of conductNoContributing guideNo

Examples that run: 100%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 100%
References docs: 33%

Downloads

387.7K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #677 · ~1.1K/day · ~32.3K/mo

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387.7K1 year

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Dependencies

Declared dependencies

0 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Depends (1)

R >= 4.0.0

Imports (0)

none

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (1)

MASS

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

22direct

63indirect

AnalyzeFMRI gogarch fGarch isva pcalg tlsR EGM NMF ProjectionBasedClustering caret dimRed dyndimred fMRIscrub fmri mlr3pipelines mlrCPO opticskxi parameters recipes rtemis steadyICA yaImpute

Code & Tests

Code Composition

C 839 (63%)Rd 250 (19%)R 234 (18%)

Code characteristics

Cyclomatic complexity: 16.0 median / 21 max

Test coverage

Line coverage

49%

Expression

47.8%

Tests / Examples

49.2% / 58% ex

Functions

21 3 exported

Complexity

16.3 avg / 21 max

Call network

21 nodes / 37 edges

Call graph

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Lowest coverage

21 functions

Function	Cyclo	Coverage
ica.R.def exp	21	0%
ica.R.par exp	12	62%
fastICA exp	16	91%

People & History

People (3)

Maintainer (1)

Brian Ripley

Author, Maintainer · added in 1.2-5

Authors (3)

Brian Ripley

Author, Maintainer · added in 1.2-5

Chris Heaton

Author · added in 1.2-7

Jonathan L Marchini

Author

Listed in earlier versions (6)

J L Marchini C Heaton <chrisheaton99@yahoo.com>

no longer listed · 1.0-0 to 1.0-1

J L Marchini C Heaton <chrisheaton99@yahoo.com> B D Ripley <ripley@stats.ox.ac.uk>

no longer listed · 1.1-1 to 1.1-11

C Heaton

no longer listed · 1.1-12 to 1.2-5.1

J L Marchini

no longer listed · 1.1-12 to 1.2-4

B D Ripley

no longer listed · 1.1-12 to 1.2-4

Marchini

no longer listed · 1.2-5 to 1.2-7

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Package metadata

First published: 2001-08-10
Total releases: 25 / 25 yrs
License: GPL-2 | GPL-3 OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 4.0.0
Download size: 11 KB
Installed size: not tracked yet
With dependencies: not tracked yet

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