R Observatory: Metrics for HCD version 1.0

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

HCD

1.0Package record

Hierarchical Community Detection by Recursive Partitioning

1packages depend

2.6Kdownloads / year

–test coverage

11/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Tianxi LiCRAN page ↗

Hierarchical community detection on networks by a recursive spectral partitioning strategy, which is shown to be effective and efficient in Li, Lei, Bhattacharyya, Sarkar, Bickel, and Levina (2018) arXiv:1810.01509. The package also includes a data generating function for a binary tree stochastic block model, a special case of stochastic block model that admits hierarchy between communities.

Install

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

install.packages("HCD", 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-hcd

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-HCD

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-HCD

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

2NOTE11OK

Check messages

NOTECRAN incoming feasibilityr-devel-linux-x86_64-debian-clang, r-devel-linux-x86_64-debian-gcc

Maintainer: ‘Tianxi Li <tianxili@umn.edu>’

The Description field contains
  <arXiv:1810.01509>. The package also includes a data generating
Please refer to arXiv e-prints via their arXiv DOI <doi:10.48550/arXiv.YYMM.NNNNN>.

CRAN check page ↗

Slowest check: 2.8 min · r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

Status changes

NOTE11 OK, 2 NOTE2026-06-09
ERROR11 OK, 1 NOTE, 1 ERROR2026-06-08
NOTE12 OK, 2 NOTE2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 1.0

READMENoVignettesNoNEWSNoCitation fileNoWebsitenot declared in DESCRIPTION

Help pages: 5includes a package overview page
Examples that run: 100%3 run in a plain check
Exported functions with examples: 75%
Documented parameters: not tracked
Return-value docs: not tracked
Help pages citing references: 100%

How these are measured

Downloads

2.6K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #18,073 · ~7/day · ~217/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

21430 days

72490 days

2.6K1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on66 r2u2 autocran

How downloads are counted

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

7 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing HCD adds 72 packages (41 with compiled code, 78 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: stringi 11 MB, ggplot2 6.0 MB, data.table 5.7 MB.

Depends (0)

none

Imports (10)

Matrixstatsmethodsrandnet RSpectra irlba data.tree data.table stringr dendextend

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (0)

none

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

1direct

0indirect

Imports 1

Depends, Imports or LinkingTo, most downloaded first

GRANDpriv

How these are counted

Code & Tests

People & History

People (6)

Tianxi Li

Author, Maintainer · added in 1.0

Elizeveta Levina

Author · added in 1.0

Lihua Lei

Author · added in 1.0

Peter Bickel

Author · added in 1.0

Purna Sarkar

Author · added in 1.0

Sharmodeep Bhattacharyya

Author · added in 1.0

Maintainer since 0.1 (2019)

Listed in earlier versions (2)

Elizaveta Levina

no longer listed · 0.1

Purnamrita Sarkar

no longer listed · 0.1

Releases (2)

Pick two releases to compare their code metrics.

R
R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
R
R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11
R
R 4.4.0 released · 2024-04-24
unarchivedReturned to CRAN
2024-02-02
1.0Latest
record
2024-02-02 · current release · diff ↗ ·
removed 1 export
pattern:BTSBM,gen.A.from.P,HCD

added 1 export
pattern:BTSBM,gen.A.from.P,HCD,HCDplot
R
R 4.3.0 released · 2023-04-21
R
R 4.2.0 released · 2022-04-22
archivedRemoved from CRAN
2022-04-18
requires archived package 'randnet'
R
R 4.1.0 released · 2021-05-18
R
R 4.0.0 released · 2020-04-24
0.1
record
2019-08-24
R
R 3.6.0 released · 2019-04-26

Package metadata

First published: 2019-08-24
Total releases: 2 / 7 yrs
License: GPL (>= 2) OSI
Download size: 8.5 KB

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("HCD")

Format

Tianxi Li, Elizeveta Levina, Lihua Lei, Peter Bickel, Purna Sarkar, & Sharmodeep Bhattacharyya. (2024). HCD: Hierarchical Community Detection by Recursive Partitioning (Version 1.0) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.HCD

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 HCD version 1.0 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-26. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

From data release v2026-10-26, which the citation names so these numbers can be found later. More on citing and the projects behind them.

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