R Observatory: Metrics for SillyPutty version 0.4.2

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

SillyPutty

0.4.2

Silly Putty Clustering

0packages depend

2.1Kdownloads / year

55.5%test coverage

13/13checks pass

Overview

About

Maintained by Kevin R. CoombesFirst published 2023-11-083 releasesCRAN page ↗

Implements a simple, novel clustering algorithm based on optimizing the silhouette width. See doi:10.1101/2023.11.07.566055 for details.

Install

R (CRAN)Ubuntu (r2u)

install.packages("SillyPutty", 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-sillyputty

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

Health

CRAN checks

13OK

Slowest check: 2.9 min · r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

Code health

Yes

Tests · ratio 0.10

55.5%

Coverage · measured lines

100%

Documentation · exports

5

Dependencies · direct

Check history

OK2026-08-05
13 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
NOTE2026-08-01
12 OK · 1 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
OK2026-06-09
13 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
ERROR2026-06-08
12 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 1 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
OK2026-03-10
14 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE

Documentation

READMENoVignettesYes · dynamicpkgdown siteNoNEWSYes · 33% structuredCode of conductNoContributing guideNo

Examples that run: 100%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 100%
References docs: 80%

Downloads

2.1K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #18,679 · ~6/day · ~171/mo

Releases R versions

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17430 days

58590 days

2.1K1 year

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Also on112 r2u

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

8 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Depends (1)

R >= 4.4

Imports (5)

methodsclusterThresher oompaBase Polychrome

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (5)

knitr rmarkdown Mercator Umpire mclust

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

0direct

0indirect

Nothing depends on this yet.

Code & Tests

Datasets

People & History

People (2)

Maintainer (1)

Kevin R. Coombes

Author, Maintainer

Authors (2)

Kevin R. Coombes

Author, Maintainer

Dwayne Tally

Author

Listed in earlier versions (1)

Coombes

no longer listed · 0.4.2

Package Timeline

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

R
R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
R
R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11
0.4.2Latest
2025-04-08 · current release · diff ↗
R
R 4.4.0 released · 2024-04-24
0.4.1
2024-02-08 · diff ↗
0.3.2
2023-11-08
R
R 4.3.0 released · 2023-04-21

Package metadata

First published: 2023-11-08
Total releases: 3 / 3 yrs
License: Apache License (== 2.0)
Minimum R: ≥ 4.4
Bundled data: 74 KB / 1 file
Download size: 1.0 MB
Installed size: not tracked yet
With dependencies: not tracked yet

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("SillyPutty")

Format

Coombes, K. R., & Tally, D. (2025). SillyPutty: Silly Putty Clustering (Version 0.4.2) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.SillyPutty

This is what citation() produces when a package has no citation file of its own. If it prints something else, use that.

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 SillyPutty version 0.4.2 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-08-21. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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