R Observatory: Metrics for gsClusterDetect version 1.0.1

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

gsClusterDetect

1.0.1Package record

Utilities for Geo-Spatial Cluster Detection and Significance Classification

0packages depend

1.7Kdownloads / year

92.5%test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Luke C. MullanyCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Website ↗Issues ↗

Provides utilities for manipulating time series of location-based counts of events to detect geo-spatial clusters. Significance of these clusters is determined using a set of models that classify based on a learned relationship between observed and the log(observed/expected) ratio of counts. The approach implemented here is similar to prospective space-time estimation of clusters using the scan statistic.

Changes in 1.0.1

Parameter post_cluster_min_count removed from find_clusters() as it was never implemented or used (#15)
Package documentation using pkgdown added (#22)
Vignette describing the overall usage of the package added (#14)
Vignette describing the creation of distance objects added (#28)
Vignette describing the use of the return_interim parameter in find_clusters() and the intermediate objects returned (#32)
Function state_distance_matrix() created and "state" added as allowed value in create_dist_list() (#30)
Output table from find_clusters() updated with more sensible column names (#20)
Adds basic mapping functionality using new function map_clusters() (#17)

From NEWS.md in the release

Install

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

install.packages("gsClusterDetect", 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("lmullany/gsClusterDetect")

Development version from lmullany/gsClusterDetect. 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-gsclusterdetect

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-gsClusterDetect

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-gsClusterDetect

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: 6.8 min · r-oldrel-macos-x86_64

Status changes

OK13 OK2026-08-05
NOTE12 OK, 1 NOTE2026-08-01
OK5 OK2026-03-24

Advisories

none known

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Documentation

In release 1.0.1

READMEYes · 278 wordsVignettesYes · 3 · dynamicNEWSYes · 100% structured · mentions 1.0.1Citation fileNoWebsiteYes · pkgdown

Help pages: 58 (20 internal)includes a package overview page
Examples that run: 86%25 run in a plain check (2 of them under a condition) · 4 only when donttest examples are enabled (R CMD check --as-cran)
Exported functions with examples: 100%
Documented parameters: 98%
Return-value docs: 93%
Help pages citing references: 0%

Vignettes (3)

How these are measured

Downloads

1.7K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #13,246 · ~5/day · ~144/mo

Releases R versions

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37930 days

85390 days

1.7K1 year

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Repository

lmullany/gsclusterdetect ↗Account: lmullany

5Stars

1Forks

5Open issues

0Open PRs

2Releases

156Commits

2Commit identities

License file reads as Apache-2.0 · 156 commits · Last activity 2026-10-02 · 0% stars, 30d · Default branch at 1.0.2, ahead of CRAN 1.0.1 (checked 2026-10-11)

Responsiveness

How these are sampled

PRs merged (all time): 100%
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed issues: 7
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed PRs: 0

Stars over time

2025-05-13 · 22026-07-07 · 5

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PracticesBeta

8 development-tooling and community-health practices detected across 5 families in the upstream repository

Checks run against github.com/lmullany/gsclusterdetect on 2026-10-11.

Continuous integration (2)

GitHub ActionsR CMD check workflow

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

Docs source (3)

pkgdown

GitHub Pages site last deployed 2026-10-02 · The repository has a site deploy workflow

pkgdown site last built 2026-10-02

Reproducibility and dev environment (1)

data-raw/

CRAN release process (1)

cran-comments.md

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Lint, format, editor (1)

RStudio project

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

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

10 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing gsClusterDetect adds 11 packages (10 with compiled code, 23 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: sf 9.3 MB, data.table 5.7 MB, s2 2.8 MB.

Depends (1)

R >= 4.3

Imports (3)

cli data.table sf

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (7)

ggplot2 plotly tigris testthat withr knitr rmarkdown

Enhances (0)

none

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Reverse dependencies

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Nothing depends on this yet.

How these are counted

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People & History

People (2)

Luke C. Mullany

Author, Maintainer · added in 1.0.1

Howard S. Burkom

Author · added in 1.0.1

Maintainer since 1.0.0 (2026)

Listed in earlier versions (2)

Howard Burkom

no longer listed · 1.0.0

Luke Mullany

no longer listed · 1.0.0

Releases (2)

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1.0.1Latest
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2026-07-27 · current release · diff ↗ ·
added 3 exports
map_clusters, prepare_map_data, state_distance_matrix
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R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
1.0.0
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2026-03-23
R
R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11

Package metadata

First published: 2026-03-23
Total releases: 2 / 1 yrs
License: Apache License (>= 2)
Minimum R: ≥ 4.3
Bundled data: 791 KB / 8 files
Download size: 3.6 MB

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citation("gsClusterDetect")

Format

Mullany, L. C., & Burkom, H. S. (2026). gsClusterDetect: Utilities for Geo-Spatial Cluster Detection and Significance Classification (Version 1.0.1) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.gsClusterDetect

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APA

Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for gsClusterDetect version 1.0.1 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-18. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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