linkspotter

1.3.0

Bivariate Correlations Calculation and Visualization

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Overview

About

Maintained by Alassane SambaFirst published 2018-07-222 releasesCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗

Compute and visualize using the 'visNetwork' package all the bivariate correlations of a dataframe. Several and different types of correlation coefficients (Pearson's r, Spearman's rho, Kendall's tau, distance correlation, maximal information coefficient and equal-freq discretization-based maximal normalized mutual information) are used according to the variable couple type (quantitative vs categorical, quantitative vs quantitative, categorical vs categorical).

Install

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

install.packages("linkspotter", 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("sambaala/linkspotter")

Development version from sambaala/linkspotter. 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-linkspotter

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-linkspotter

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-linkspotter

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

Health

CRAN checks

13OK

Slowest check: 2.8 min · r-devel-linux-x86_64-fedora-clang

Code health

None

Tests · ratio 0.00

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Coverage

100%

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OK2026-06-09
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ERROR2026-06-08
12 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 1 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
OK2026-04-25
12 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
NOTE2026-03-10
11 OK · 3 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE

Documentation

READMEYes · 886 wordsVignettesYes · dynamicpkgdown siteNoNEWSYes · 100% structuredCode of conductNoContributing guideNo

Examples that run: 100%
Documented parameters: 98%
Return-value docs: 88%
References docs: 0%

Downloads

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Repository

GitHub ↗ sambaala/linkspotter

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License MIT · 124 commits · Last activity 2023-10-11

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Repository practices

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Dependencies

Declared dependencies

14 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Depends (1)

R >= 3.2.0

Imports (12)

shiny visNetwork infotheo minerva energy mclust rAmCharts pbapply ggplot2 dplyr tidyr shinybusy

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none

Suggests (2)

knitr rmarkdown

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bullseye

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People & History

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Alassane Samba

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Package metadata

First published: 2018-07-22
Total releases: 2 / 8 yrs
License: MIT + file LICENSE OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 3.2.0
Download size: 263 KB
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