R Observatory: Metrics for linkspotter version 1.3.0

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

linkspotter

1.3.0Package record

Bivariate Correlations Calculation and Visualization

0packages dependsuggested by 1

2.9Kdownloads / year

–test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Alassane SambaCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Issues ↗

Compute and visualize using the 'visNetwork' package all the bivariate correlations of a dataframe. Several and different types of correlation coefficients (Pearson's r, Spearman's rho, Kendall's tau, distance correlation, maximal information coefficient and equal-freq discretization-based maximal normalized mutual information) are used according to the variable couple type (quantitative vs categorical, quantitative vs quantitative, categorical vs categorical).

Changes in 1.3.0

Computation

add targetVar parameter for multiBivariateCorrelation() and linkspotterComplete() to consider only couples including targetVar
add maxNbBins parameter for MaxNMI in multiBivariateCorrelation() and linkspotterComplete()
print info from multiBivariateCorrelation()
better deal with the parameter includeNA
bug fix on EFdiscretization() for weird cases
better handle non informative variables and couples of variables
remove tidyr and dplyr deprecated functions
give up Hmisc dependency

Visualization

add a new feature: hide isolated nodes
add a new feature: flip the bivariate plot

Show all changes in 1.3.0Hide the rest of the changes in 1.3.0

add busy spinner from shinybusy package
use ggplot2 for all bivariate plots

From NEWS.md in the release

Install

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

install.packages("linkspotter", 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("sambaala/linkspotter")

Development version from sambaala/linkspotter. 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-linkspotter

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-linkspotter

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-linkspotter

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: 2.7 min · r-release-macos-x86_64

Status changes

OK13 OK2026-08-05
NOTE12 OK, 1 NOTE2026-08-01
OK13 OK2026-06-09
ERROR12 OK, 1 ERROR2026-06-08
OK12 OK2026-04-25

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NOTE11 OK, 3 NOTE2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 1.3.0

READMEYes · 886 wordsVignettesYes · 1 · dynamicNEWSYes · 100% structured · mentions 1.3.0Citation fileNoWebsitenot declared in DESCRIPTION

Help pages: 16
Examples that run: 100%16 run in a plain check
Exported functions with examples: 100%
Documented parameters: 98%
Return-value docs: 88%
Help pages citing references: 0%

Vignettes (1)

Introduction to Linkspotter HTML

How these are measured

Downloads

2.9K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #16,978 · ~8/day · ~242/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

29430 days

74690 days

2.9K1 year

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Also on66 r2u5 autocran

How downloads are counted

Repository

Orange-OpenSource/linkspotter ↗Organization: Orange-OpenSource

Moved from sambaala/linkspotter.

7Stars

1Forks

2Open issues

0Open PRs

0Releases

124Commits

1Commit identities

License file reads as MIT · 124 commits · Last activity 2023-10-11 · Default branch at 1.4.0.9000, ahead of CRAN 1.3.0 (checked 2026-10-21)

Responsiveness

How these are sampled

PRs merged (all time): not measured
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed issues: 62
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed PRs: not measured

Stars over time

2021-03-26 · 72026-07-07 · 7

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/sambaala/linkspotter on 2026-10-21.

Lint, format, editor (1)

RStudio project

How this is detected·Detection ruleset v4 (2026-10-20)

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

14 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing linkspotter adds 73 packages (40 with compiled code, 76 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: stringi 11 MB, ggplot2 6.0 MB, data.table 5.7 MB.

Depends (1)

R >= 3.2.0

Imports (12)

shiny visNetwork infotheo minerva energy mclust rAmCharts pbapply ggplot2 dplyr tidyr shinybusy

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (2)

knitr rmarkdown

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

0direct

0indirect

Suggested by 1

Suggests, most downloaded first

bullseye

How these are counted

Code & Tests

People & History

People (2)

Alassane Samba

Author, Maintainer since 1.2.0 (2018)

Orange

Copyright holder

Releases (2)

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Package metadata

First published: 2018-07-22
Total releases: 2 / 8 yrs
License: MIT + file LICENSE OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 3.2.0
Download size: 263 KB

Cite

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citation("linkspotter")

Format

Samba, A., & Orange, . (2020). linkspotter: Bivariate Correlations Calculation and Visualization (Version 1.3.0) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.linkspotter

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Format

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Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for linkspotter version 1.3.0 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-23. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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