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fpc

2.2-14

Flexible Procedures for Clustering

45packages depend
257.5Kdownloads / year
38.2%test coverage
4/13checks pass

Overview

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Maintained by Christian HennigFirst published 2003-06-2839 releasesCRAN page ↗

Various methods for clustering and cluster validation. Fixed point clustering. Linear regression clustering. Clustering by merging Gaussian mixture components. Symmetric and asymmetric discriminant projections for visualisation of the separation of groupings. Cluster validation statistics for distance based clustering including corrected Rand index. Standardisation of cluster validation statistics by random clusterings and comparison between many clustering methods and numbers of clusters based on this. Cluster-wise cluster stability assessment. Methods for estimation of the number of clusters: Calinski-Harabasz, Tibshirani and Walther's prediction strength, Fang and Wang's bootstrap stability. Gaussian/multinomial mixture fitting for mixed continuous/categorical variables. Variable-wise statistics for cluster interpretation. DBSCAN clustering. Interface functions for many clustering methods implemented in R, including estimating the number of clusters with kmeans, pam and clara. Modality diagnosis for Gaussian mixtures. For an overview see package?fpc.

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Code health
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Tests · ratio 0.71
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Coverage · measured lines
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Dependencies · direct
Check history
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Documentation

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Examples that run
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Documented parameters
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Return-value docs
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References docs
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Downloads

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CRAN downloads in the past year
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Dependencies

Declared dependencies
9 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)
Depends (1)
R >= 2.0
Imports (15)
MASSclustermclustflexmixprabclusclassdiptestrobustbasekernlabgrDevicesgraphicsmethodsstatsutilsparallel
LinkingTo (0)
none
Enhances (0)
none

Code & Tests

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Package Timeline

39 releases. Pick two to compare their code metrics. R releases are shown for context.

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    R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
  • 2.2-14Latest
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    R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11
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    R 4.4.0 released · 2024-04-24
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    R 4.3.0 released · 2023-04-21
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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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    R 4.0.0 released · 2020-04-24
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    2019-05-21 · diff ↗
  • unarchivedReturned to CRAN
    2019-05-21
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    2019-04-26 · diff ↗
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    R 3.6.0 released · 2019-04-26
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    2018-07-20
    check problems were not corrected despite reminders
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    R 3.5.0 released · 2018-04-23
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    R 3.3.0 released · 2016-05-03
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    R 3.2.0 released · 2015-04-16
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    R 3.1.0 released · 2014-04-10
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    R 3.0.0 released · 2013-04-03
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    R 2.15.0 released · 2012-03-30
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    R 2.12.0 released · 2010-10-15
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    R 2.11.0 released · 2010-04-22
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    R 2.10.0 released · 2009-10-26
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    R 2.9.0 released · 2009-04-17
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    R 2.8.0 released · 2008-10-20
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    R 2.7.0 released · 2008-04-22
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    R 2.6.0 released · 2007-10-03
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    R 2.5.0 released · 2007-04-24
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    R 2.4.0 released · 2006-10-03
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    R 2.1.0 released · 2005-04-18
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    R 2.0.0 released · 2004-10-04
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    R 1.9.0 released · 2004-04-12
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    R 1.8.0 released · 2003-10-08
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  • 1.0
    2003-06-28
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    R 1.7.0 released · 2003-04-16

Package metadata

First published
2003-06-28
Total releases
39 / 23 yrs
License
GPL
Minimum R
≥ 2.0
Bundled data
0.5 KB / 1 file
Download size
200 KB
Installed size
not tracked yet
With dependencies
not tracked yet

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Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("fpc")
Hennig, C. (2026). fpc: Flexible Procedures for Clustering (Version 2.2-14) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.fpc

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APA

Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for fpc version 2.2-14 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-08-18. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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