leiden

0.4.3.1

R Implementation of Leiden Clustering Algorithm

3packages depend

68.7Kdownloads / year

4.7%test coverage

9/13checks pass

Overview

About

Maintained by S. Thomas KellyFirst published 2019-02-1115 releasesCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗

Implements the 'Python leidenalg' module to be called in R. Enables clustering using the leiden algorithm for partition a graph into communities. See the 'Python' repository for more details: https://github.com/vtraag/leidenalg Traag et al (2018) From Louvain to Leiden: guaranteeing well-connected communities. arXiv:1810.08473.

Install

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

install.packages("leiden", 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("TomKellyGenetics/leiden")

Development version from TomKellyGenetics/leiden. 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-leiden

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-leiden

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-leiden

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

Health

CRAN checks

4NOTE9OK

Failing flavors

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

Slowest check: 20.5 min · r-release-windows-x86_64

Code health

Yes

Tests · ratio 0.77

4.7%

Coverage · measured lines

100%

Documentation · exports

Dependencies · direct

Check history

NOTE2026-03-10
9 OK · 5 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE

Documentation

READMENoVignettesYes · dynamicpkgdown siteNoNEWSYes · 100% structuredCode of conductNoContributing guideNo

Examples that run: 100%
Documented parameters: 67%
Return-value docs: 100%
References docs: 0%

Downloads

68.7K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #2,099 · ~188/day · ~5.7K/mo

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Repository

GitHub ↗ tomkellygenetics/leiden

44Stars

9Forks

9Open issues

0Open PRs

21Releases

741Commits

2Contributors

License GPL-3.0 · 741 commits · Last activity 2024-05-26 · 0% stars, 30d

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CITATION.cff

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Dependencies

Declared dependencies

19 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Depends (0)

none

Imports (4)

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People & History

People (2)

Maintainer (1)

S. Thomas Kelly

Author, Maintainer, Translator · added in 0.3.0

Authors (1)

S. Thomas Kelly

Author, Maintainer, Translator · added in 0.3.0

Translators (1)

S. Thomas Kelly

Author, Maintainer, Translator · added in 0.3.0

Other (1)

Vincent A. Traag

Compiler · added in 0.3.0

Listed in earlier versions (1)

Tom Kelly

no longer listed · 0.2.3

Package Timeline

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Package metadata

First published: 2019-02-11
Total releases: 15 / 7 yrs
License: GPL-3 | file LICENSE OSI
Download size: 2.7 MB
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