R Observatory: Metrics for IBclust version 1.4

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

IBclust

1.4

Information Bottleneck Methods for Clustering Mixed-Type Data

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2.6Kdownloads / year

–test coverage

13/13checks pass

Overview

About

Maintained by Angelos MarkosFirst published 2025-07-104 releasesCRAN 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.

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.

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).

Health

CRAN checks

13OK

Slowest check: 4.6 min · r-devel-windows-x86_64

Code health

None

Tests · ratio 0.00

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Coverage

100%

Documentation · exports

6

Dependencies · direct

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ERROR2026-06-08
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Documentation

READMEYes · 194 wordsVignettesNopkgdown siteNoNEWSNoCode of conductNoContributing guideNo

Examples that run: 100%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 100%
References docs: 43%

Downloads

2.6K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #8,765 · ~7/day · ~218/mo

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Dependencies

Declared dependencies

8 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Depends (1)

R >= 3.5.0

Imports (6)

Rcppstatsutilsnp rje Rdpack

LinkingTo (3)

Rcpp RcppArmadillo RcppEigen

Suggests (1)

mclust

Enhances (0)

none

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Reverse dependencies

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Code & Tests

People & History

People (3)

Maintainer (1)

Angelos Markos

Author, Maintainer

Authors (3)

Angelos Markos

Author, Maintainer

Efthymios Costa

Author

Ioanna Papatsouma

Author

Package Timeline

4 releases. Pick two to compare their code metrics. R releases are shown for context.

1.4Latest
2026-07-14 · current release · diff ↗
1.3
2026-05-11 · diff ↗
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R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
1.2.1
2025-09-19 · diff ↗
1.2
2025-07-10
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R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11

Package metadata

First published: 2025-07-10
Total releases: 4 / 1 yrs
License: GPL (>= 3) OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 3.5.0
Download size: 143 KB
Installed size: not tracked yet
With dependencies: not tracked yet

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Format

Markos, A., Costa, E., & Papatsouma, I. (2026). IBclust: Information Bottleneck Methods for Clustering Mixed-Type Data (Version 1.4) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.IBclust

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Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for IBclust version 1.4 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-08-15. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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