R Observatory: Metrics for clustvarsel version 2.3.5

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

clustvarsel

2.3.5Package record

Variable Selection for Gaussian Model-Based Clustering

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6.9Kdownloads / year

–test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Luca ScruccaCRAN page ↗

Variable selection for Gaussian model-based clustering as implemented in the 'mclust' package. The methodology allows to find the (locally) optimal subset of variables in a data set that have group/cluster information. A greedy or headlong search can be used, either in a forward-backward or backward-forward direction, with or without sub-sampling at the hierarchical clustering stage for starting 'mclust' models. By default the algorithm uses a sequential search, but parallelisation is also available.

Changes in 2.3.5

Explicitly uses current value of mclust.options("hcUse") for initializing the EM iterative estimation process.
Fixed anchors in Rd \link{} targets that were not within the package, addressing CRAN requirements.

From NEWS.md in the release

Install

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

install.packages("clustvarsel", 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-clustvarsel

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-clustvarsel

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-clustvarsel

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: 2.4 min · r-devel-windows-x86_64

Status changes

OK13 OK2026-08-05
NOTE12 OK, 1 NOTE2026-08-01
OK14 OK2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

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Documentation

In release 2.3.5

READMEYes · 219 wordsVignettesYes · 1 · dynamicNEWSYes · 100% structured · mentions 2.3.5Citation fileYes · cites a publicationWebsitenot declared in DESCRIPTION

Cites a JSS article

Help pages: 2 (1 internal)
Examples that run: 100%1 run in a plain check
Exported functions with examples: 50%
Documented parameters: 47%
Return-value docs: 50%
Help pages citing references: 50%

Vignettes (1)

A quick tour of clustvarsel

How these are measured

Downloads

6.9K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #5,576 · ~19/day · ~575/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

64730 days

1.5K90 days

6.9K1 year

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How downloads are counted

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

7 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing clustvarsel adds 11 packages (7 with compiled code, 8.1 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: mclust 2.7 MB, robustbase 2.2 MB, rrcov 1.5 MB.

Depends (2)

R >= 3.2mclust

Imports (5)

statsMatrixBMA foreach iterators

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (5)

MASSparalleldoParallel knitr rmarkdown (>= 0.9)

Enhances (0)

none

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Reverse dependencies

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FCPS

How these are counted

Code & Tests

People & History

People (3)

Luca Scrucca

Author, Maintainer since 2.0 (2013) · added in 2.0

Nema Dean

Author

Adrian E. Raftery

Author

Previously maintained by Nema Dean (1.0 to 1.3).

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Package metadata

First published: 2006-03-20
Total releases: 13 / 20 yrs
License: GPL (>= 2) OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 3.2
Download size: 440 KB

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Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' entry:

citation("clustvarsel")

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

It points to 10.18637/jss.v084.i01.

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Format

APA

Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for clustvarsel version 2.3.5 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-24. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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