R Observatory: Metrics for genie version 1.0.7

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

genie

1.0.7Package record

Fast, Robust, and Outlier Resistant Hierarchical Clustering

0packages dependsuggested by 1

6.7Kdownloads / year

–test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Marek GagolewskiCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Website ↗Issues ↗

Implements a basic version of the hierarchical clustering algorithm 'Genie' which links two point groups in such a way that an inequity measure (namely, the Gini index) of the cluster sizes does not significantly increase above a given threshold. This method most often outperforms many other data segmentation approaches in terms of clustering quality as tested on a wide range of benchmark datasets. At the same time, Genie retains the high speed of the single linkage approach, therefore it is also suitable for analysing larger data sets. For more details see (Gagolewski et al. 2016 DOI:10.1016/j.ins.2016.05.003). For a faster and more feature-rich implementation, see the 'genieclust' package (Gagolewski, 2021 DOI:10.1016/j.softx.2021.100722).

Install

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

install.packages("genie", 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("gagolews/genie")

Development version from gagolews/genie. 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-genie

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-genie

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-genie

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: 3.0 min · r-devel-windows-x86_64

Status changes

OK13 OK2026-08-05
NOTE12 OK, 1 NOTE2026-08-01
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 1.0.7

README· In the repository, left out of the releaseVignettesNoNEWSYes · 100% structuredCitation fileYes · cites a publicationWebsiteYes

Help pages: 2includes a package overview page
Examples that run: 100%1 run in a plain check
Exported functions with examples: 100%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 100%
Help pages citing references: 50%

How these are measured

Downloads

6.7K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #6,972 · ~18/day · ~557/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

43830 days

1.2K90 days

6.7K1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on545 r2u7 autocran4.2K conda_forge156 c2d4u

How downloads are counted

Repository

gagolews/genie ↗Account: gagolews

22Stars

3Forks

0Open issues

0Open PRs

1Releases

396Commits

4Commit identities

hierarchical-clustering-algorithmgenieclusteroutlierscluster-analysisrmachine-learning-algorithmsclustering

396 commits · Last activity 2025-05-28 · 0% stars, 30d · The default branch showed an older version (1.0.6.9002) than CRAN on 2026-10-18

Responsiveness

How these are sampled

PRs merged (all time): not measured
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed issues: 2
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed PRs: not measured

Stars over time

2024-10-22 · 222026-07-07 · 22

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

3 development-tooling and community-health practices detected across 3 families in the upstream repository

Checks run against github.com/gagolews/genie on 2026-10-18.

Continuous integration (1)

Travis CI (config file)

Reproducibility and dev environment (1)

Makefile

Lint, format, editor (1)

RStudio project

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

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

3 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing genie adds 4 packages (4 with compiled code, 1.9 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: Rcpp 1.8 MB, genieclust 73 KB, quitefastmst 42 KB.

Depends (3)

R >= 4.0.0statsgenieclust

Imports (1)

Rcpp

LinkingTo (1)

Rcpp

Suggests (0)

none

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

0direct

0indirect

Suggested by 1

Suggests, most downloaded first

FCPS

How these are counted

Code & Tests

People & History

People (3)

Marek Gagolewski

Maciej Bartoszuk

Author

Anna Cena

Author

Releases (6)

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R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
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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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R 3.6.0 released · 2019-04-26
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R 3.5.0 released · 2018-04-23
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R 3.4.0 released · 2017-04-21
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R 3.3.0 released · 2016-05-03

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R 3.2.0 released · 2015-04-16

Package metadata

First published: 2016-03-07
Total releases: 6 / 10 yrs
License: GPL (>= 3) OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 4.0.0
Download size: 26 KB

Appears in task views

Robust Statistical Methods

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' entry:

citation("genie")

The package provides a citation file, so citation() returns the authors' own entry.

It points to 10.1016/j.ins.2016.05.003.

Cite the R Observatory

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

Format

APA

Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for genie version 1.0.7 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-20. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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