R Observatory: Metrics for diceR version 3.2.0

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

diceR

3.2.0Package record

Diverse Cluster Ensemble in R

1packages depend

6.6Kdownloads / year

81.9%test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Derek ChiuCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Website ↗Issues ↗

Performs cluster analysis using an ensemble clustering framework, Chiu & Talhouk (2018) doi:10.1186/s12859-017-1996-y. Results from a diverse set of algorithms are pooled together using methods such as majority voting, K-Modes, LinkCluE, and CSPA. There are options to compare cluster assignments across algorithms using internal and external indices, visualizations such as heatmaps, and significance testing for the existence of clusters.

Changes in 3.2.0

Reinstate mixedClust for block clustering now that it is back on CRAN and blockcluster has been archived

From NEWS.md in the release

Install

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

install.packages("diceR", 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("AlineTalhouk/diceR")

Development version from AlineTalhouk/diceR. 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-dicer

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-diceR

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-diceR

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: 5.4 min · r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

Status changes

OK13 OK2026-08-05
NOTE12 OK, 1 NOTE2026-08-01
OK13 OK2026-06-09
ERROR12 OK, 1 ERROR2026-06-08
OK13 OK2026-05-02

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ERROR11 OK, 1 ERROR2026-04-25
OK14 OK2026-04-22
ERROR13 OK, 1 ERROR2026-04-18
OK14 OK2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 3.2.0

READMEYes · 576 wordsVignettesYes · 1 · dynamicNEWSYes · 100% structured · mentions 3.2.0Citation fileNoWebsiteYes · pkgdown

Help pages: 24 (1 internal)includes a package overview page
Examples that run: 100%22 run in a plain check (5 of them under a condition)
Exported functions with examples: 100%
Documented parameters: 98%
Return-value docs: 100%
Help pages citing references: 33%

Vignettes (1)

Cluster Analysis using `diceR` HTML

How these are measured

Downloads

6.6K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #4,260 · ~18/day · ~554/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

83730 days

2K90 days

6.6K1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on438 r2u14 autocran4.4K conda_forge

How downloads are counted

Repository

alinetalhouk/dicer ↗Account: AlineTalhouk

39Stars

11Forks

2Open issues

4Open PRs

25Releases

1,170Commits

9Commit identities

1,170 commits · Last activity 2026-08-31 · Default branch at 3.2.0.9000, ahead of CRAN 3.2.0 (checked 2026-10-18)

Responsiveness

How these are sampled

PRs merged (all time): 87%
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed issues: 20
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed PRs: 0

Stars over time

2025-08-24 · 392026-07-07 · 39

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

11 development-tooling and community-health practices detected across 6 families in the upstream repository

Checks run against github.com/alinetalhouk/dicer on 2026-10-18.

Continuous integration (2)

GitHub ActionsR CMD check workflow

The R CMD check workflow runs on Linux, macOS and Windows, and on R-devel

Docs source (3)

README.Rmdpkgdown

GitHub Pages site last deployed 2026-08-31

pkgdown site last built 2026-08-24, before release 3.2.0 (2026-08-25)

Coverage (2)

Coverage reporting (Codecov).covrignore

Reproducibility and dev environment (1)

data-raw/

Show all practicesHide 2 practices

CRAN release process (2)

cran-comments.mdrevdep/

Lint, format, editor (1)

RStudio project

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

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

37 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing diceR adds 94 packages (48 with compiled code, 68 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: stringi 11 MB, ggplot2 6.0 MB, bslib 5.6 MB.

Depends (1)

R >= 4.1

Imports (21)

abind assertthatclassclue clusterCrit clValid dplyr ggplot2grDevicesinfotheo klaR magrittr mclustmethodspheatmap purrr RankAggreg Rcpp stringr tidyr yardstick

LinkingTo (1)

Rcpp

Suggests (19)

apclusterclustercovr dbscan e1071 kernlab knitr kohonen mixedClust NMF pander poLCA progress RColorBrewer rlang rmarkdown Rtsne sigclust testthat (>= 3.0.0)

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

1direct

0indirect

Imports 1

Depends, Imports or LinkingTo, most downloaded first

clusterMI

How these are counted

Code & Tests

Datasets

People & History

People (3)

Derek Chiu

Author, Maintainer since 0.1.0 (2017)

Aline Talhouk

Author

Johnson Liu

Contributor, Compiler

Releases (25)

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R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
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R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11
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R 4.3.0 released · 2023-04-21
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requires archived package 'clusterCrit'
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2022-05-13
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archivedRemoved from CRAN
2022-05-09
check issues were not corrected in time
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R 4.2.0 released · 2022-04-22
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R 4.1.0 released · 2021-05-18
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2020-06-15
check problems were not corrected in time
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R 4.0.0 released · 2020-04-24
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added 1 export
LCA
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R 3.6.0 released · 2019-04-26
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2018-05-05
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archivedRemoved from CRAN
2018-05-03
depends on archived package 'NNLM'
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R 3.5.0 released · 2018-04-23
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R 3.4.0 released · 2017-04-21

Package metadata

First published: 2017-06-22
Total releases: 25 / 9 yrs
License: MIT + file LICENSE OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 4.1
Bundled data: 613 KB / 1 file
Download size: 779 KB

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("diceR")

Format

Chiu, D., Liu, J., & Talhouk, A. (2026). diceR: Diverse Cluster Ensemble in R (Version 3.2.0) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.diceR

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Format

APA

Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for diceR version 3.2.0 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-21. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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