R Observatory: Metrics for MixSim version 1.1-8

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

MixSim

1.1-8

Simulating Data to Study Performance of Clustering Algorithms

8packages depend

7.6Kdownloads / year

–test coverage

13/13checks pass

Overview

About

Maintained by Wei-Chen ChenFirst published 2009-04-2220 releasesCRAN page ↗

The utility of this package is in simulating mixtures of Gaussian distributions with different levels of overlap between mixture components. Pairwise overlap, defined as a sum of two misclassification probabilities, measures the degree of interaction between components and can be readily employed to control the clustering complexity of datasets simulated from mixtures. These datasets can then be used for systematic performance investigation of clustering and finite mixture modeling algorithms. Among other capabilities of 'MixSim', there are computing the exact overlap for Gaussian mixtures, simulating Gaussian and non-Gaussian data, simulating outliers and noise variables, calculating various measures of agreement between two partitionings, and constructing parallel distribution plots for the graphical display of finite mixture models.

Install

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

install.packages("MixSim", 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-mixsim

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-MixSim

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-MixSim

RPMs auto-built from CRAN on openSUSE OBS (Tumbleweed).

Health

CRAN checks

13OK

Slowest check: 2.1 min · r-devel-windows-x86_64

Code health

None

Tests · ratio 0.00

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Coverage

100%

Documentation · exports

1

Dependencies · direct

Check history

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OK2026-03-10
14 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE

Documentation

READMENoVignettesNopkgdown siteNoNEWSNoCode of conductNoContributing guideNo

Examples that run: 83%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 91%
References docs: 92%

Downloads

7.6K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #6,263 · ~21/day · ~632/mo

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Dependencies

Declared dependencies

0 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Depends (2)

R >= 4.0.0MASS

Imports (0)

none

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (0)

none

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

8direct

0indirect

MixfMRI PPtreeExt SAGMM clustra MergeKmeans clustTMB cmbClust radviz3d

Code & Tests

People & History

People (6)

Maintainer (1)

Wei-Chen Chen

Author, Maintainer

Authors (3)

Wei-Chen Chen

Author, Maintainer

Ranjan Maitra

Author

Volodymyr Melnykov

Author

Contributors (3)

Robert Davies

Contributor · added in 1.1-2

Stephen Moshier

Contributor · added in 1.1-2

Rouben Rostamian

Contributor · added in 1.1-2

Listed in earlier versions (1)

and Ranjan Maitra

no longer listed · 1.0-3 to 1.0-8

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Package metadata

First published: 2009-04-22
Total releases: 20 / 17 yrs
License: GPL (>= 2) OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 4.0.0
Download size: 42 KB
Installed size: not tracked yet
With dependencies: not tracked yet

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Cluster Analysis & Finite Mixture Models

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Chen, W., Davies, R., Maitra, R., Melnykov, V., Moshier, S., & Rostamian, R. (2024). MixSim: Simulating Data to Study Performance of Clustering Algorithms (Version 1.1-8) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.MixSim

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Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for MixSim version 1.1-8 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-08-18. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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