R Observatory: Metrics for GMMinit version 1.0.0

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

GMMinit

1.0.0

Optimal Initial Value for Gaussian Mixture Model

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1.3Kdownloads / year

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Overview

About

Maintained by Jing LiFirst published 2026-01-241 releasesCRAN page ↗

Generating, evaluating, and selecting initialization strategies for Gaussian Mixture Models (GMMs), along with functions to run the Expectation-Maximization (EM) algorithm. Initialization methods are compared using log-likelihood, and the best-fitting model can be selected using BIC. Methods build on initialization strategies for finite mixture models described in Michael and Melnykov (2016) doi:10.1007/s11634-016-0264-8 and Biernacki et al. (2003) doi:10.1016/S0167-9473(02)00163-9, and on the EM algorithm of Dempster et al. (1977) doi:10.1111/j.2517-6161.1977.tb01600.x. Background on model-based clustering includes Fraley and Raftery (2002) doi:10.1198/016214502760047131 and McLachlan and Peel (2000, ISBN:9780471006268).

Install

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

install.packages("GMMinit", 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-gmminit

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-GMMinit

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-GMMinit

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

Health

CRAN checks

13OK

Slowest check: 1.0 min · r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

Code health

None

Tests · ratio 0.00

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Coverage

100%

Documentation · exports

4

Dependencies · direct

Check history

OK2026-08-05
13 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
NOTE2026-08-01
12 OK · 1 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
OK2026-03-10
14 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE

Documentation

READMENoVignettesNopkgdown siteNoNEWSNoCode of conductNoContributing guideNo

Examples that run: 100%
Documented parameters: 98%
Return-value docs: 100%
References docs: 17%

Downloads

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Dependencies

Declared dependencies

3 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Depends (0)

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Imports (4)

mvtnorm mclust mvnfaststats

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Code & Tests

People & History

People (2)

Maintainer (1)

Jing Li

Author, Maintainer

Authors (2)

Jing Li

Author, Maintainer

Yana Melnykov

Author

Package Timeline

1 release. R releases are shown for context.

R
R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
1.0.0Latest
2026-03-10 · current release
R
R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11

Package metadata

First published: 2026-01-24
Total releases: 1 / 1 yrs
License: GPL (>= 2) OSI
Download size: 13 KB
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With dependencies: not tracked yet

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Li, J., & Melnykov, Y. (2026). GMMinit: Optimal Initial Value for Gaussian Mixture Model (Version 1.0.0) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.GMMinit

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Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for GMMinit version 1.0.0 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-08-23. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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