R Observatory: Metrics for FCPS version 1.4.3

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

FCPS

1.4.3Package record

Fundamental Clustering Problems Suite

0packages dependsuggested by 3

12.1Kdownloads / year

–test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Michael ThrunCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Website ↗Issues ↗

Over sixty clustering algorithms are provided in this package with consistent input and output, which enables the user to try out algorithms swiftly. Additionally, 26 statistical approaches for the estimation of the number of clusters as well as the mirrored density plot (MD-plot) of clusterability are implemented. The packages is published in Thrun, M.C., Stier Q.: "Fundamental Clustering Algorithms Suite" (2021), SoftwareX, DOI:10.1016/j.softx.2020.100642. Moreover, the fundamental clustering problems suite (FCPS) offers a variety of clustering challenges any algorithm should handle when facing real world data, see Thrun, M.C., Ultsch A.: "Clustering Benchmark Datasets Exploiting the Fundamental Clustering Problems" (2020), Data in Brief, DOI:10.1016/j.dib.2020.105501.

Install

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

install.packages("FCPS", 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("Mthrun/FCPS")

Development version from Mthrun/FCPS. 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-fcps

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-FCPS

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-FCPS

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: 4.8 min · r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

Status changes

OK13 OK2026-08-05
NOTE12 OK, 1 NOTE2026-08-01
OK13 OK2026-07-23
NOTE6 OK, 7 NOTE2026-06-09
ERROR6 OK, 6 NOTE, 1 ERROR2026-06-08

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NOTE5 OK, 9 NOTE2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 1.4.3

READMEYes · 510 wordsVignettesYes · 1 · staticNEWSNoCitation fileYes · cites a publicationWebsiteYes

Help pages: 91 (1 internal)includes a package overview page
Examples that run: 81%72 run in a plain check · 10 only when donttest examples are enabled (R CMD check --as-cran) · 5 never run · 2 hold no code
Exported functions with examples: 99%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 99%
Help pages citing references: 85%

Vignettes (1)

The FCPS package HTML

How these are measured

Downloads

12.1K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #3,896 · ~33/day · ~1K/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

1.1K30 days

2.4K90 days

12.1K1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on201 r2u4 autocran1.8K conda_forge135 c2d4u

How downloads are counted

Repository

mthrun/fcps ↗Account: Mthrun

26Stars

3Forks

1Open issues

0Open PRs

1Releases

236Commits

3Commit identities

clustering-algorithmscluster-tendencycluster-analysiscluster-challenger-packagedata-miningunsupervised-machine-learning

236 commits · Last activity 2026-10-03 · 0% stars, 30d

Responsiveness

How these are sampled

PRs merged (all time): 100%
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed issues: not measured
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed PRs: 0

Stars over time

2025-07-03 · 232026-09-11 · 26

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

1 development-tooling and community-health practice detected across 1 family in the upstream repository

Checks run against github.com/mthrun/fcps on 2026-10-11.

Lint, format, editor (1)

RStudio project

How this is detected·Detection ruleset v3 (2026-09-26)

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

59 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing FCPS adds 28 packages (16 with compiled code, 39 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: stringi 11 MB, ggplot2 6.0 MB, sp 4.3 MB.

Depends (1)

R >= 3.5.0

Imports (4)

mclust ggplot2 DataVisualizationsmethods

LinkingTo (0)

none

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

0direct

0indirect

Suggested by 3

Suggests, most downloaded first

ScatterDensity PDEnaiveBayes DRquality

How these are counted

Code & Tests

Datasets

People & History

People (10)

Michael Thrun

Guy Brock

Contributor · added in 1.2.0

Somnath Datta

Contributor · added in 1.2.0

Susmita Datta

Contributor · added in 1.2.0

Peter Nahrgang

Contractor, Contributor

Felix Pape

Contractor, Contributor · added in 1.2.0

Vasyl Pihur

Contributor · added in 1.2.0

Quirin Stier

Contributor, Reviewer · added in 1.2.2

Alfred Ultsch

Data contributor, Contributor

Luis Winckelmann

Compiler · added in 1.2.0

Releases (17)

Pick two releases to compare their code metrics.

1.4.3Latest
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2026-10-03 · current release · diff ↗ ·
removed 1 export
CrossEntropyClustering

added 1 export
BalancedKmeansClustering
1.4.1
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2026-08-20 · diff ↗ ·
added 2 exports
IsDissimilarity, ClusterAlignLabels
1.4.0
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2026-07-15 · diff ↗ ·
removed 1 export
PenalizedRegressionBasedClustering

added 5 exports
ConsensusClustering, PFclustering, parApplyDataBasedCA, parApplyClusterAnalysis, parApplyDistanceBasedCA
R
R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
1.3.6
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2026-03-26 · diff ↗ ·
removed 1 export
ADPclustering
1.3.5
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2025-10-30 · diff ↗ ·
added 2 exports
ClusterAMI, ClusterNMI
R
R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11
R
R 4.4.0 released · 2024-04-24
1.3.4
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2023-10-19 · diff ↗ ·
added 1 export
ClusterARI
1.3.3
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2023-05-30 · diff ↗ ·
added 3 exports
CrossEntropyClustering, MeanShiftClustering, GapStatistic
R
R 4.3.0 released · 2023-04-21
1.3.1
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2022-05-20 · diff ↗ ·
added 5 exports
NetworkClustering, ClusterMCC, ClusterNormalize, ClusterRedefine, ClusterUpsamplingMinority
R
R 4.2.0 released · 2022-04-22
1.3.0
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2021-07-07 · diff ↗ ·
removed 1 export
CrossEntropyClustering

added 6 exports
HDDClustering, ModelBasedVarSelClustering, SparseClustering, ClusterDunnIndex, ClusterDaviesBouldinIndex, ClusterShannonInfo
R
R 4.1.0 released · 2021-05-18
1.2.7
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2021-01-15 · diff ↗ ·
added 1 export
ClusterEqualWeighting

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1.2.6
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2020-12-11 · diff ↗ ·
removed 2 exports
DBscan, Hierarchical_DBSCAN

added 3 exports
DBSCAN, HierarchicalDBSCAN, ClusterIntraDistances
1.2.4
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2020-09-07 · diff ↗
1.2.3
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2020-06-26 · diff ↗
1.2.2
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2020-06-07 · diff ↗ ·
removed 2 exports
pattern:^[[:upper:]]+, kmeansDist

added 51 exports
ADPclustering, AgglomerativeNestingClustering, APclustering, AutomaticProjectionBasedClustering, CrossEntropyClustering, DatabionicSwarmClustering, DBscan, DensityPeakClustering, DivisiveAnalysisClustering, FannyClustering, GenieClustering, HCLclustering, HierarchicalClustering, Hierarchical_DBSCAN, LargeApplicationClustering, MarkovClustering, MinimalEnergyClustering, MinimaxLinkageClustering, ModelBasedClustering, MoGclustering, MSTclustering, NeuralGasClustering, OPTICSclustering, PAMclustering, PenalizedRegressionBasedClustering, ProjectionPursuitClustering, QTclustering, RobustTrimmedClustering, SharedNearestNeighborClustering, SOMclustering and 21 more
R
R 4.0.0 released · 2020-04-24
1.2.0
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2020-04-23 · diff ↗ ·
added 1 export
kmeansDist
1.1.0
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2020-03-13 · diff ↗ ·
removed 1 export
pattern:^[[:alpha:]]+

added 3 exports
pattern:^[[:upper:]]+, kmeansClustering, pdfClustering
1.0.0
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2020-02-11
R
R 3.6.0 released · 2019-04-26

Package metadata

First published: 2020-02-11
Total releases: 17 / 6 yrs
License: GPL-3 OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 3.5.0
Bundled data: 1.5 MB / 11 files
Download size: 3.6 MB

Appears in task views

Cluster Analysis & Finite Mixture Models

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' entry:

citation("FCPS")

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

It points to 10.1016/j.softx.2020.100642, 10.3390/pr9101697.

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 FCPS version 1.4.3 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-18. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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