R Observatory: Metrics for blockcluster version 4.5.5

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

This package was removed from CRAN on 2026-03-19. Its history is shown below.

Reason: issues were not corrected despite reminders

Details below reflect version 4.5.5, its last release before removal.

blockcluster

4.5.5Package record

Co-Clustering Package for Binary, Categorical, Contingency and Continuous Data-Sets

0packages dependsuggested by 1

2.1Kdownloads / year

–test coverage

–flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Serge IovleffCRAN page ↗Repository ↗

Simultaneous clustering of rows and columns, usually designated by biclustering, co-clustering or block clustering, is an important technique in two way data analysis. It consists of estimating a mixture model which takes into account the block clustering problem on both the individual and variables sets. The 'blockcluster' package provides a bridge between the C++ core library build on top of the 'STK++' library, and the R statistical computing environment. This package allows to co-cluster binary doi:10.1016/j.csda.2007.09.007, contingency doi:10.1080/03610920903140197, continuous doi:10.1007/s11634-013-0161-3 and categorical data-sets doi:10.1007/s11222-014-9472-2. It also provides utility functions to visualize the results. This package may be useful for various applications in fields of Data mining, Information retrieval, Biology, computer vision and many more. More information about the project and comprehensive tutorial can be found on the link mentioned in URL.

Install

R (source archive)

url <- "https://cran.r-project.org/src/contrib/Archive/blockcluster/blockcluster_4.5.5.tar.gz"
pkgFile <- "blockcluster_4.5.5.tar.gz"
download.file(url, pkgFile)
install.packages(pkgFile, type = "source", repos = NULL)

This package is no longer on CRAN, so install.packages() cannot fetch it by name. This downloads the last archived source (4.5.5) and builds it locally. Install its dependencies first, and note that building from source needs the usual compiler toolchain.

Health

CRAN checks

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Status changes

WARNING6 OK, 3 NOTE, 5 WARNING2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

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Documentation

In release 4.5.5

READMENoVignettesYes · 1 · dynamicNEWSYes · does not mention 4.5.5Citation fileYes · cites a publicationWebsitenot declared in DESCRIPTION

Cites a JSS article

Help pages: 21
Examples that run: 100%12 run in a plain check
Exported functions with examples: 100%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 100%
Help pages citing references: 0%

How these are measured

Downloads

2.1K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #25,730 · ~6/day · ~172/mo

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Dependencies

Declared dependencies

3 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Depends (2)

R >= 4.1.0rtkore

Imports (1)

methods

LinkingTo (2)

Rcpp rtkore

Suggests (0)

none

Enhances (0)

none

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Reverse dependencies

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People & History

People (8)

Serge Iovleff

Author, Maintainer since 4.0.2 (2015)

Parmeet Singh Bhatia

Author · added in 3.0.1

Josselin Demont

Contributor · added in 4.2.0

Vincent Brault

Contributor

Vincent Kubicki

Contributor · added in 4.0.2

Gerard Goavert

Contributor

Christophe Biernacki

Contributor · added in 4.0.2

Gilles Celeux

Contributor · added in 4.0.2

Previously maintained by Vincent KUBICKI (3.0.1 to 3.0.2) and Serge Iovleff (3.0).

Listed in earlier versions (4)

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Parmeet Bhatia

no longer listed · 1.0 to 3.0

with contributions from Christophe Biernacki

no longer listed · 1.0 to 3.0.2

Gilles Celeux.

no longer listed · 1.0 to 3.0.2

Grard Goavert

no longer listed · 1.0

Releases (21)

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R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
archivedRemoved from CRAN
2026-03-19
issues were not corrected despite reminders
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R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11
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R 4.4.0 released · 2024-04-24
unarchivedReturned to CRAN
2024-02-23
4.5.5
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2024-02-23 · diff ↗
archivedRemoved from CRAN
2024-02-08
check problems were not corrected in time Blamed CRAN team for own errors, no apology
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R 4.3.0 released · 2023-04-21
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unarchivedReturned to CRAN
2023-01-08
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archivedRemoved from CRAN
2022-08-12
issues were not corrected in time
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R 4.2.0 released · 2022-04-22
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2021-07-28 · diff ↗
unarchivedReturned to CRAN
2021-07-13

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R 4.1.0 released · 2021-05-18
archivedRemoved from CRAN
2021-04-07
check problems were not corrected in time Use of uninitialised memory detected by valgrind
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R 4.0.0 released · 2020-04-24
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R 3.6.0 released · 2019-04-26
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4.3.2
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2018-10-05 · diff ↗ ·
removed 1 export
pattern:^[[:alpha:]]+

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cocluster
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R 3.5.0 released · 2018-04-23
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R 3.4.0 released · 2017-04-21
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R 3.3.0 released · 2016-05-03
4.0.2
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2015-11-27 · diff ↗ ·
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cocluster, cocluststrategy

added 5 exports
coclusterBinary, coclusterCategorical, coclusterContingency, coclusterContinuous, coclusterStrategy
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R 3.2.0 released · 2015-04-16
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R 3.0.0 released · 2013-04-03
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R 2.15.0 released · 2012-03-30

Package metadata

First published: 2012-07-04
Total releases: 21 / 14 yrs
License: GPL (>= 3) OSI
Copyright: Inria
Minimum R: ≥ 4.1.0
Bundled data: 483 KB / 5 files
Download size: 1.9 MB

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' entry:

citation("blockcluster")

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

It points to 10.18637/jss.v076.i09.

Cite the R Observatory

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Format

APA

Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for blockcluster version 4.5.5 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-24. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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