R Observatory: Metrics for Entropic.Scree version 1.0.1

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

Entropic.Scree

1.0.1Package record

Information-Theoretic Dimensionality Estimation

0packages depend

574downloads / year

–test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Terrence J. Lee-St. JohnCRAN page ↗

An information-theoretic diagnostic technique for estimating the intrinsic dimensionality of tabular datasets. Evaluates shared probability mass via a transformed mutual information metric. Aims to extract the Intrinsic Generative Rank (r) and structural topology. For full methodological details, see the preprint by Lee-St. John (2026) https://zenodo.org/records/22028087.

Install

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

install.packages("Entropic.Scree", 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-entropic.scree

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-Entropic.Scree

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-Entropic.Scree

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

13OK

CRAN check page ↗

Slowest check: 2.5 min · r-devel-windows-x86_64

Status changes

OK13 OKNow
OK7 OK2026-09-16

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 1.0.1

READMENoVignettesNoNEWSNoCitation fileNoWebsitenot declared in DESCRIPTION

Help pages: 2
Examples that run: 100%1 run in a plain check
Exported functions with examples: 50%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 100%
Help pages citing references: 0%

How these are measured

Downloads

574

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #22,828 · ~2/day · ~48/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

44230 days

57490 days

5741 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on17 r2u2 autocran

How downloads are counted

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

6 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing Entropic.Scree adds 21 packages (10 with compiled code, 24 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: ggplot2 6.0 MB, data.table 5.7 MB, patchwork 3.2 MB.

Depends (0)

none

Imports (6)

data.table ggplot2 infotheoparallelpatchwork Rcpp

LinkingTo (1)

Rcpp

Suggests (0)

none

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

0direct

0indirect

Nothing depends on this yet.

How these are counted

Code & Tests

People & History

People (1)

Terrence J. Lee-St. John

Author, Maintainer since 1.0.1 (2026)

Releases (1)

1.0.1Latest
record
2026-09-15 · current release
R
R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24

Package metadata

First published: 2026-09-15
Total releases: 1 / 1 yrs
License: Apache License 2.0 OSI
Copyright: Terrence J. Lee-St. John (Enli)
Download size: 16 KB

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("Entropic.Scree")

Format

Lee-St. John, T. J. (2026). Entropic.Scree: Information-Theoretic Dimensionality Estimation (Version 1.0.1) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.Entropic.Scree

This package has no citation file, so citation() returns this entry built from DESCRIPTION.

Cite the R Observatory

For a number measured here: a download total, a coverage figure, an archival date.

Format

APA

Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for Entropic.Scree version 1.0.1 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-22. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

From data release v2026-10-22, which the citation names so these numbers can be found later. More on citing and the projects behind them.

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