R Observatory: Metrics for BCClong version 1.0.3

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

BCClong

1.0.3Package record

Bayesian Consensus Clustering for Multiple Longitudinal Features

0packages dependsuggested by 1

2.5Kdownloads / year

73.0%test coverage

9/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Zhiwen TanCRAN page ↗

It is very common nowadays for a study to collect multiple features and appropriately integrating multiple longitudinal features simultaneously for defining individual clusters becomes increasingly crucial to understanding population heterogeneity and predicting future outcomes. 'BCClong' implements a Bayesian consensus clustering (BCC) model for multiple longitudinal features via a generalized linear mixed model. Compared to existing packages, several key features make the 'BCClong' package appealing: (a) it allows simultaneous clustering of mixed-type (e.g., continuous, discrete and categorical) longitudinal features, (b) it allows each longitudinal feature to be collected from different sources with measurements taken at distinct sets of time points (known as irregularly sampled longitudinal data), (c) it relaxes the assumption that all features have the same clustering structure by estimating the feature-specific (local) clusterings and consensus (global) clustering.

Install

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

install.packages("BCClong", 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-bcclong

Fast Ubuntu binaries via r2u (no compilation). The cranapt setup runs once and is skipped when it is already enabled. We list this channel from recorded r2u download activity rather than from a live index of the repository, so treat it as last known rather than guaranteed.

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-BCClong

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-BCClong

RPMs auto-built from CRAN on openSUSE OBS (Tumbleweed). We list this channel from recorded autoCRAN download activity rather than from a live index of the repository, so treat it as last known rather than guaranteed.

Health

CRAN checks

4ERROR9OK

Check messages

ERRORpackage dependenciesr-oldrel-macos-arm64, r-oldrel-macos-x86_64, r-release-macos-arm64, r-release-macos-x86_64

Package required but not available: ‘mixAK’

See section ‘The DESCRIPTION file’ in the ‘Writing R Extensions’
manual.

CRAN check page ↗

Slowest check: 7.7 min · r-devel-windows-x86_64

Status changes

ERROR9 OK, 4 ERRORNow
ERROR8 OK, 1 NOTE, 5 ERROR2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

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Documentation

In release 1.0.3

READMENoVignettesYes · 2 · dynamicNEWSNoCitation fileYes · software entry onlyWebsitenot declared in DESCRIPTION

Help pages: 16
Examples that run: 100%16 run in a plain check
Exported functions with examples: 100%
Documented parameters: 93%
Return-value docs: 100%
Help pages citing references: 0%

Vignettes (2)

How these are measured

Downloads

2.5K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #17,385 · ~7/day · ~210/mo

Releases R versions

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26130 days

74090 days

2.5K1 year

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How downloads are counted

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

22 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing BCClong adds 48 packages (28 with compiled code, 41 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: ggplot2 6.0 MB, lme4 4.3 MB, mclust 2.7 MB.

Depends (1)

R >= 3.5.0

Imports (19)

clustercoda ggplot2graphicslabel.switching LaplacesDemon lme4MASSmclust MCMCpack mixAK mvtnormnnetRcpp Rmpfrstatstruncdist abind gridExtra

LinkingTo (2)

Rcpp RcppArmadillo

Suggests (7)

cowplot joineRML knitr rmarkdownsurvivalsurvminer testthat

Enhances (0)

none

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Reverse dependencies

0direct

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Suggested by 1

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People & History

People (3)

Zhiwen Tan

Author, Maintainer since 1.0.0 (2023)

Zihang Lu

Contributor

Chang Shen

Contributor

Releases (4)

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R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
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R 4.2.0 released · 2022-04-22

Package metadata

First published: 2023-01-13
Total releases: 4 / 3 yrs
License: MIT + file LICENSE OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 3.5.0
Bundled data: 3.2 MB / 9 files
Download size: 4.0 MB

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' entry:

citation("BCClong")

The package provides a citation file, so citation() returns the authors' own entry.

It points to 10.48550/arxiv.2210.08385.

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Format

APA

Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for BCClong version 1.0.3 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-24. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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