dendsort
Modular Leaf Ordering Methods for Dendrogram Nodes
Description
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>.
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Code
Structure
Lines of code
1,555
Files
45
Compiled share
0%
Has compiled src
No
Language breakdown
API
Exported functions
8
Internal functions
2
Recent export changes
Testing & CI
Has tests
No
Test-to-code ratio
0.00
testthat edition
–
CI present
No
CI type
[]
PR gated
No
Docs
Return-value doc rate
100%
\dontrun example ratio
0%
Roxygen coverage
100%
Has pkgdown
No
NEWS present
No
Health & Security signals
Informational signals; not verdicts.
on.exit coverage
–
Unsafe pattern score
0
Dep constraint coverage
–
Secret pattern count
0
Bundled 3rd-party code
2 items
Portability & License
Min R version
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System requirements
–
C++ standard
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License
GPL-2 | GPL-3
License flags
SPDX valid, OSI approved
History
Versions
8
First release
2014-02-28
Latest release
2021-04-20
Avg cadence
95 days
Cold removal rate
100%
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0
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