R Observatory: Metrics for IBclust version 1.5

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

IBclust

1.5Package record

Information Bottleneck Methods for Clustering Mixed-Type Data

0packages depend

2.9Kdownloads / year

–test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Angelos MarkosCRAN page ↗

Implements multiple variants of the Information Bottleneck ('IB') method for clustering datasets containing continuous, categorical (nominal/ordinal) and mixed-type variables. The package provides deterministic, agglomerative, generalised, sequential, and standard IB clustering algorithms that preserve relevant information while forming interpretable clusters. The Deterministic Information Bottleneck is described in Costa et al. (2026) doi:10.1016/j.patcog.2026.113580. The standard IB method originates from Tishby et al. (2000) doi:10.48550/arXiv.physics/0004057, the agglomerative variant from Slonim and Tishby (1999) https://papers.nips.cc/paper/1651-agglomerative-information-bottleneck, the generalised IB from Strouse and Schwab (2017) doi:10.1162/NECO_a_00961, and the sequential IB from Slonim et al. (2002) doi:10.1145/564376.564401. Diagnostic and plotting functions are provided to summarise, visualise, and predict from the resulting clusterings.

Install

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

install.packages("IBclust", 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-ibclust

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-IBclust

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-IBclust

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: 4.4 min · r-devel-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 OK2026-04-22

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ERROR13 OK, 1 ERROR2026-04-18
OK14 OK2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

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Documentation

In release 1.5

READMEYes · 194 wordsVignettesNoNEWSNoCitation fileYes · software entry onlyWebsitenot declared in DESCRIPTION

Help pages: 14includes a package overview page
Examples that run: 100%8 run in a plain check
Exported functions with examples: 100%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 100%
Help pages citing references: 43% with a bibliography file

How these are measured

Downloads

2.9K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #15,599 · ~8/day · ~238/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

26230 days

78090 days

2.9K1 year

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Also on381 r2u6 autocran

How downloads are counted

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

8 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing IBclust adds 13 packages (11 with compiled code, 14 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: cubature 3.2 MB, Rcpp 1.8 MB, RcppEigen 1.7 MB.

Depends (1)

R >= 3.5.0

Imports (6)

Rcppstatsutilsnp rje Rdpack

LinkingTo (3)

Rcpp RcppArmadillo RcppEigen

Suggests (1)

mclust

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

0direct

0indirect

Nothing depends on this yet.

How these are counted

Code & Tests

People & History

People (3)

Angelos Markos

Author, Maintainer since 1.2 (2025)

Efthymios Costa

Author

Ioanna Papatsouma

Author

Releases (5)

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1.5Latest
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2026-08-28 · current release · diff ↗
1.4
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2026-07-14 · diff ↗ ·
added 3 exports
find_elbow, info_metrics, sIBmix
1.3
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2026-05-11 · diff ↗
R
R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
1.2.1
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2025-09-19 · diff ↗ ·
removed 8 exports
DIBcont, DIBcat, IBcont, IBcat, GIBcont, GIBcat, AIBcont, AIBcat
1.2
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2025-07-10
R
R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11

Package metadata

First published: 2025-07-10
Total releases: 5 / 1 yrs
License: GPL (>= 3) OSI · relicensed from MIT + file LICENSE in 1.2.1
Minimum R: ≥ 3.5.0
Download size: 201 KB

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' entry:

citation("IBclust")

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

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Format

APA

Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for IBclust version 1.5 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-20. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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