partitionComparison

0.2.6

Implements Measures for the Comparison of Two Partitions

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Overview

About

Maintained by Fabian BallFirst published 2017-08-255 releasesCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗

Provides several measures ((dis)similarity, distance/metric, correlation, entropy) for comparing two partitions of the same set of objects. The different measures can be assigned to three different classes: Pair comparison (containing the famous Jaccard and Rand indices), set based, and information theory based. Many of the implemented measures can be found in Albatineh AN, Niewiadomska-Bugaj M and Mihalko D (2006) doi:10.1007/s00357-006-0017-z and Meila M (2007) doi:10.1016/j.jmva.2006.11.013. Partitions are represented by vectors of class labels which allow a straightforward integration with existing clustering algorithms (e.g. kmeans()). The package is mostly based on the S4 object system.

Install

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

install.packages("partitionComparison", 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("KIT-IISM-EM/partitionComparison")

Development version from KIT-IISM-EM/partitionComparison. 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-partitioncomparison

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-partitionComparison

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

Health

CRAN checks

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Slowest check: 1.4 min · r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

Code health

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Documentation

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Examples that run: 100%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 2%
References docs: 67%

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Repository

GitHub ↗ kit-iism-em/partitioncomparison

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Dependencies

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3 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

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R >= 3.2.0

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Fabian Ball

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Fabian Ball

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Fabian Ball

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Fabian Ball

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Andreas Geyer-Schulz

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Package metadata

First published: 2017-08-25
Total releases: 5 / 9 yrs
License: MIT + file LICENSE OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 3.2.0
Download size: 81 KB
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