R Observatory: Metrics for dendsort version 0.3.4

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

dendsort

0.3.4Package record

Modular Leaf Ordering Methods for Dendrogram Nodes

1packages dependsuggested by 1

34Kdownloads / year

–test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Evan BiederstedtCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Issues ↗

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. 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-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). 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: 1.6 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

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 0.3.4

READMEYes · 85 wordsVignettesYes · 1 · dynamicNEWSNoCitation fileNoWebsitenot declared in DESCRIPTION

Help pages: 10 (7 internal)includes a package overview page
Examples that run: 100%8 run in a plain check
Exported functions with examples: 100%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 100%
Help pages citing references: 0%

Vignettes (1)

"Figures from Manuscript"

How these are measured

Downloads

34K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #2,538 · ~93/day · ~2.8K/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

2K30 days

6.2K90 days

34K1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on694 r2u8 autocran1.9K conda_forge60 c2d4u

How downloads are counted

Repository

evanbiederstedt/dendsort ↗Account: evanbiederstedt

5Stars

0Forks

1Open issues

0Open PRs

0Releases

21Commits

1Commit identities

21 commits · Last activity 2021-05-31

Responsiveness

not measured

Stars over time

2025-04-21 · 52026-07-07 · 5

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

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

Checks run against github.com/evanbiederstedt/dendsort on 2026-10-11.

Continuous integration (1)

Travis CI (config file)

How this is detected·Detection ruleset v3 (2026-09-26)

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

6 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing dendsort adds no packages beyond those that come with R.

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

1direct

1indirect

Imports 1

Suggested by 1

Depends, Imports or LinkingTo, most downloaded first

pagoda2

Suggests, most downloaded first

gapmap

How these are counted

Code & Tests

Datasets

People & History

People (2)

Evan Biederstedt

Maintainer since 0.3.4 (2021), Author · added in 0.3.4

Ryo Sakai

Author

Previously maintained by Ryo Sakai (0.1.1 to 0.3.3).

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added 8 exports
cal_length, cal_node_limit, cal_total_length, dendsort, sort_average, sort_average_r, sort_smallest, sort_smallest_r

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Package metadata

First published: 2014-02-28
Total releases: 8 / 12 yrs
License: GPL-2 | GPL-3 OSI
Bundled data: 33 KB / 1 file
Download size: 1.8 MB

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("dendsort")

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

This package has no citation file, so citation() returns this entry built from DESCRIPTION.

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For a number measured here: a download total, a coverage figure, an archival date.

Format

APA

Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for dendsort version 0.3.4 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-19. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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