R Observatory: Metrics for MSclust version 1.0.4

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

MSclust

1.0.4Package record

Multiple-Scaled Clustering

0packages depend

6.9Kdownloads / year

–test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Cristina TortoraCRAN page ↗

Model based clustering using the multivariate multiple Scaled t (MST) and multivariate multiple scaled contaminated normal (MSCN) distributions. The MST is an extension of the multivariate Student-t distribution to include flexible tail behaviors, Forbes, F. & Wraith, D. (2014) doi:10.1007/s11222-013-9414-4. The MSCN represents a heavy-tailed generalization of the multivariate normal (MN) distribution to model elliptical contoured scatters in the presence of mild outliers (also referred to as "bad" points) and automatically detect bad points, Punzo, A. & Tortora, C. (2021) doi:10.1177/1471082X19890935.

Install

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

install.packages("MSclust", 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-msclust

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-MSclust

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-MSclust

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: 2.5 min · r-oldrel-macos-x86_64

Status changes

OK13 OK2026-09-08
ERROR12 OK, 1 ERROR2026-09-07
OK13 OK2026-08-05
NOTE12 OK, 1 NOTE2026-08-01
OK13 OK2026-06-09

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ERROR12 OK, 1 ERROR2026-06-08
OK14 OK2026-03-10

Advisories

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Documentation

In release 1.0.4

READMENoVignettesNoNEWSNoCitation fileNoWebsitenot declared in DESCRIPTION

Help pages: 7
Examples that run: 33%2 run in a plain check · 4 never run
Exported functions with examples: 100%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 100%
Help pages citing references: 57%

How these are measured

Downloads

6.9K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #8,101 · ~19/day · ~575/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

43430 days

1.1K90 days

6.9K1 year

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Also on86 r2u4 autocran

How downloads are counted

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

7 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing MSclust adds 43 packages (19 with compiled code, 41 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: stringi 11 MB, ggplot2 6.0 MB, patchwork 3.2 MB.

Depends (1)

R >= 3.5

Imports (9)

gtoolsMatrixmclust mnormt mvtnorm psychclusterggplot2 GGally

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (0)

none

Enhances (0)

none

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Reverse dependencies

0direct

0indirect

Nothing depends on this yet.

How these are counted

Code & Tests

Datasets

People & History

People (3)

Cristina Tortora

Antonio Punzo

Author

Louis Tran

Author

Releases (5)

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Package metadata

First published: 2022-04-08
Total releases: 5 / 4 yrs
License: GPL (>= 2) OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 3.5
Bundled data: 9.2 KB / 1 file
Download size: 23 KB

Appears in task views

Cluster Analysis & Finite Mixture Models

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("MSclust")

Format

Tortora, C., Punzo, A., & Tran, L. (2024). MSclust: Multiple-Scaled Clustering (Version 1.0.4) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.MSclust

This package has no citation file, so citation() returns this entry built from DESCRIPTION.

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Format

APA

Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for MSclust version 1.0.4 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-18. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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