ktaucenters

1.0.0

Robust Clustering Procedures

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Overview

About

Maintained by Juan Domingo GonzalezFirst published 2019-08-032 releasesCRAN page ↗

A clustering algorithm similar to K-Means is implemented, it has two main advantages, namely (a) The estimator is resistant to outliers, that means that results of estimator are still correct when there are atypical values in the sample and (b) The estimator is efficient, roughly speaking, if there are no outliers in the sample, results will be similar to those obtained by a classic algorithm (K-Means). Clustering procedure is carried out by minimizing the overall robust scale so-called tau scale. (see Gonzalez, Yohai and Zamar (2019) arxiv:1906.08198).

Install

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

install.packages("ktaucenters", 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-ktaucenters

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-ktaucenters

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-ktaucenters

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

Health

CRAN checks

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Failing flavors

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Slowest check: 3.4 min · r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

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Tests · ratio 0.04

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Coverage · measured lines

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Documentation

READMEYes · 446 wordsVignettesNopkgdown siteNoNEWSYes · 67% structuredCode of conductNoContributing guideNo

Examples that run: 100%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 100%
References docs: 62%

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Dependencies

Declared dependencies

8 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Depends (4)

R >= 2.10MASSstatsGSE

Imports (1)

Rcpp

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Rcpp

Suggests (5)

jpeg tclust knitr rmarkdown testthat

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none

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Code & Tests

People & History

People (4)

Maintainer (1)

Juan Domingo Gonzalez

Maintainer, Author

Authors (4)

Juan Domingo Gonzalez

Maintainer, Author

Douglas Alberto Carmona Guanipa

Author · added in 1.0.0

Victor J. Yohai

Author

Ruben H. Zamar

Author

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Package metadata

First published: 2019-08-03
Total releases: 2 / 7 yrs
License: GPL (>= 2) OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 2.10
Bundled data: 772 KB / 1 file
Download size: 800 KB
Installed size: not tracked yet
With dependencies: not tracked yet

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