R Observatory: Metrics for dendsort version 0.3.4

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

dendsort

0.3.4

Modular Leaf Ordering Methods for Dendrogram Nodes

2packages depend

39.9Kdownloads / year

–test coverage

13/13checks pass

Overview

About

Maintained by Evan BiederstedtFirst published 2014-03-018 releasesCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗

An implementation of functions to optimize ordering of nodes in a dendrogram, without affecting the meaning of the dendrogram. A dendrogram can be sorted based on the average distance of subtrees, or based on the smallest distance value. These sorting methods improve readability and interpretability of tree structure, especially for tasks such as comparison of different distance measures or linkage types and identification of tight clusters and outliers. As a result, it also introduces more meaningful reordering for a coupled heatmap visualization. This method is described in "dendsort: modular leaf ordering methods for dendrogram representations in R", F1000Research 2014, 3: 177 doi:10.12688/f1000research.4784.1.

Install

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

install.packages("dendsort", repos = "https://cloud.r-project.org/")

Installs the current CRAN release. Prebuilt binaries on Windows and macOS.

if (!requireNamespace("pak", quietly = TRUE))
  install.packages("pak", repos = "https://cloud.r-project.org/")
pak::pak("evanbiederstedt/dendsort")

Development version from evanbiederstedt/dendsort. Installs pak first if it is not already available.

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-dendsort

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-dendsort

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-dendsort

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

Health

CRAN checks

13OK

Slowest check: 1.4 min · r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

Code health

None

Tests · ratio 0.00

not tracked

Coverage

100%

Documentation · exports

0

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

Documentation

READMEYes · 85 wordsVignettesYes · dynamicpkgdown siteNoNEWSNoCode of conductNoContributing guideNo

Examples that run: 100%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 100%
References docs: 0%

Downloads

39.9K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #2,316 · ~109/day · ~3.3K/mo

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Repository

GitHub ↗ evanbiederstedt/dendsort

5Stars

0Forks

1Open issues

0Open PRs

0Releases

21Commits

1Contributors

21 commits · Last activity 2021-05-31

Stars over time

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Repository practices

Upstream repositoryBeta

1 development-tooling and community-health practice detected across 1 family in the upstream repository

Checks run against github.com/evanbiederstedt/dendsort on 2026-08-16.

Continuous integration (1)

Travis CI

How this is detected·Detection ruleset v1 (2026-07-18)

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

6 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Depends (0)

none

Imports (0)

none

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (6)

knitr RColorBrewer gplots seriation gapmap rmarkdown

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

2direct

1indirect

pagoda2 gapmap

Code & Tests

Datasets

People & History

People (2)

Maintainer (1)

Evan Biederstedt

Maintainer, Author · added in 0.3.4

Authors (2)

Evan Biederstedt

Maintainer, Author · added in 0.3.4

Ryo Sakai

Author

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Package metadata

First published: 2014-03-01
Total releases: 8 / 12 yrs
License: GPL-2 | GPL-3 OSI
Bundled data: 33 KB / 1 file
Download size: 1.8 MB
Installed size: not tracked yet
With dependencies: not tracked yet

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Format

Biederstedt, E., & Sakai, R. (2021). dendsort: Modular Leaf Ordering Methods for Dendrogram Nodes (Version 0.3.4) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.dendsort

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Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for dendsort version 0.3.4 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-08-18. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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