R Observatory: Metrics for mclust version 6.1.3

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

mclust

6.1.3

Gaussian Mixture Modelling for Model-Based Clustering, Classification, and Density Estimation

201packages depend

1.1Mdownloads / year

–test coverage

8/13checks pass

Overview

About

Maintained by Luca ScruccaFirst published 1999-11-0486 releasesCRAN page ↗

Gaussian finite mixture models fitted via EM algorithm for model-based clustering, classification, and density estimation, including Bayesian regularization, dimension reduction for visualisation, and resampling-based inference.

Install

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

install.packages("mclust", repos = "https://cloud.r-project.org/")

Installs the current CRAN release. Prebuilt binaries on Windows and macOS.

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-mclust

Fast Ubuntu binaries via r2u (no compilation). The cranapt setup runs once and is skipped when it is already enabled.

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-mclust

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-mclust

RPMs auto-built from CRAN on openSUSE OBS (Tumbleweed).

Health

CRAN checks

5NOTE8OK

Failing flavors

NOTE r-devel-linux-x86_64-debian-clang
NOTE r-devel-linux-x86_64-debian-gcc
NOTE r-devel-linux-x86_64-fedora-clang
NOTE r-devel-linux-x86_64-fedora-gcc
NOTE r-devel-windows-x86_64

Slowest check: 7.1 min · r-devel-windows-x86_64

Code health

None

Tests · ratio 0.00

not tracked

Coverage

100%

Documentation · exports

4

Dependencies · direct

Check history

NOTE2026-07-16
11 OK · 2 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
OK2026-06-09
13 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
ERROR2026-06-08
12 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 1 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
OK2026-04-25
12 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
NOTE2026-03-10
11 OK · 3 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE

Documentation

READMENoVignettesYes · dynamicpkgdown siteNoNEWSYes · 100% structuredCode of conductNoContributing guideNo

Examples that run: 54%
Documented parameters: 93%
Return-value docs: 95%
References docs: 37%

Downloads

1.1M

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #367 · ~2.9K/day · ~88K/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

77.7K30 days

254.9K90 days

1.1M1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on21.7K r2u231 autocran39.4K conda_forge924 bioconda744 c2d4u

Repository

GitHub ↗ mclust-org/mclust

Repository practices

Upstream repositoryBeta

Repository github.com/mclust-org/mclust is linked, but repository-practices checks have not run for it yet.

How this is detected·Detection ruleset v1 (2026-07-18)

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

4 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Depends (1)

R >= 3.0

Imports (4)

statsutilsgraphicsgrDevices

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (5)

knitr rmarkdown mix geometryMASS

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

201direct

347indirect

and 153 more packages.

Code & Tests

Datasets

People & History

People (5)

Maintainer (1)

Luca Scrucca

Author, Maintainer · added in 4.0

Authors (3)

Luca Scrucca

Author, Maintainer · added in 4.0

Chris Fraley

Author · added in 3.0-0

Adrian E. Raftery

Author · added in 5.0.0

Contributors (2)

Michael Fop

Contributor · added in 5.0.0

Thomas Brendan Murphy

Contributor · added in 5.0.0

Listed in earlier versions (7)

C. Fraley

no longer listed · 1.1-1 to 2.1-14

A.E. Raftery

no longer listed · 1.1-1 to 2.1-14

Dept. of Statistics

no longer listed · 1.1-1 to 2.1-14

University of Washington R port by Ron Wehrens

no longer listed · 1.1-1 to 2.0-1

University of Washington. R port by Ron Wehrens

no longer listed · 2.0-2 to 2.0-3

University of Washington. R port by Ron Wehrens.

no longer listed · 2.1-0 to 2.1-14

Adrian Raftery

no longer listed · 3.0-0 to 4.4

Package Timeline

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Package metadata

First published: 1999-11-04
Total releases: 86 / 27 yrs
License: GPL (>= 2) OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 3.0
Bundled data: 558 KB / 11 files
Download size: 2.7 MB
Installed size: not tracked yet
With dependencies: not tracked yet

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Cluster Analysis & Finite Mixture Models Probability Distributions Analysis of Ecological and Environmental Data

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Scrucca, L., Fop, M., Fraley, C., Murphy, T. B., & Raftery, A. E. (2026). mclust: Gaussian Mixture Modelling for Model-Based Clustering, Classification, and Density Estimation (Version 6.1.3) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.mclust

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