R Observatory: Metrics for GowerSom version 0.1.0

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

GowerSom

0.1.0Package record

Self-Organizing Maps for Mixed-Attribute Data Using Gower Distance

0packages depend

1.7Kdownloads / year

–test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Patricio SalasCRAN page ↗

Implements a variant of the Self-Organizing Map (SOM) algorithm designed for mixed-attribute datasets. Similarity between observations is computed using the Gower distance, and categorical prototypes are updated via heuristic strategies (weighted mode and multinomial sampling). Provides functions for model fitting, mapping, visualization (U-Matrix and component planes), and evaluation, making SOM applicable to heterogeneous real-world data. For methodological details see Sáez and Salas (2026) doi:10.1007/s41060-025-00941-6.

Install

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

install.packages("GowerSom", 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-gowersom

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-GowerSom

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-GowerSom

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: 2.4 min · r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

Status changes

OK13 OK2026-08-05
NOTE12 OK, 1 NOTE2026-08-01
OK13 OK2026-06-09
ERROR12 OK, 1 ERROR2026-06-08
OK14 OK2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 0.1.0

READMENoVignettesNoNEWSNoCitation fileNoWebsitenot declared in DESCRIPTION

Help pages: 6 (1 internal)
Examples that run: 100%6 run in a plain check
Exported functions with examples: 100%
Documented parameters: 88%
Return-value docs: 100%
Help pages citing references: 83%

How these are measured

Downloads

1.7K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #20,896 · ~5/day · ~145/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

26330 days

62390 days

1.7K1 year

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Also on236 r2u6 autocran

How downloads are counted

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

8 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing GowerSom adds 40 packages (22 with compiled code, 35 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: stringi 11 MB, ggplot2 6.0 MB, survey 2.3 MB.

Depends (1)

R >= 4.3.0

Imports (10)

StatMatch dplyr gower ggplot2clusterreshape2gridutilsstatscli

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (2)

knitr rmarkdown

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

0direct

0indirect

Nothing depends on this yet.

How these are counted

Code & Tests

People & History

People (2)

Patricio Salas

Author, Maintainer since 0.1.0 (2026)

Patricio Sáez

Author

Releases (1)

R
R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
0.1.0Latest
record
2026-01-27 · current release
R
R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11

Package metadata

First published: 2026-01-27
Total releases: 1 / 1 yrs
License: GPL-2 OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 4.3.0
Download size: 8.9 KB

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("GowerSom")

Format

Salas, P., & Sáez, P. (2026). GowerSom: Self-Organizing Maps for Mixed-Attribute Data Using Gower Distance (Version 0.1.0) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.GowerSom

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 GowerSom version 0.1.0 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-18. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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