R Observatory: Metrics for mixdir version 0.3.0

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

mixdir

0.3.0Package record

Cluster High Dimensional Categorical Datasets

0packages depend

2.7Kdownloads / year

86.9%test coverage

11/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Constantin Ahlmann-EltzeCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗

Scalable Bayesian clustering of categorical datasets. The package implements a hierarchical Dirichlet (Process) mixture of multinomial distributions. It is thus a probabilistic latent class model (LCM) and can be used to reduce the dimensionality of hierarchical data and cluster individuals into latent classes. It can automatically infer an appropriate number of latent classes or find k classes, as defined by the user. The model is based on a paper by Dunson and Xing (2009) doi:10.1198/jasa.2009.tm08439, but implements a scalable variational inference algorithm so that it is applicable to large datasets. It is described and tested in the accompanying paper by Ahlmann-Eltze and Yau (2018) doi:10.1109/DSAA.2018.00068.

Changes in 0.3.0

Improve error message if underflow in zeta calculation (#1). Thanks to @jmelero611.

From NEWS.md in the release

Install

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

install.packages("mixdir", 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("const-ae/mixdir")

Development version from const-ae/mixdir. 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-mixdir

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-mixdir

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-mixdir

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

2NOTE11OK

Check messages

NOTECRAN incoming feasibilityr-devel-linux-x86_64-debian-clang, r-devel-linux-x86_64-debian-gcc

Maintainer: ‘Constantin Ahlmann-Eltze <artjom31415@googlemail.com>’

Package CITATION file contains call(s) to old-style personList() or
as.personList().  Please use c() on person objects instead.
Package CITATION file contains call(s) to old-style citEntry().  Please
use bibentry() instead.

CRAN check page ↗

Slowest check: 3.0 min · r-devel-windows-x86_64

Status changes

NOTE11 OK, 2 NOTENow
NOTE11 OK, 1 NOTE, 1 FAILURE2026-06-08
WARNING11 OK, 1 NOTE, 1 WARNING2026-06-07
NOTE12 OK, 2 NOTE2026-04-22
ERROR11 OK, 2 NOTE, 1 ERROR2026-04-18
NOTE12 OK, 2 NOTE2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 0.3.0

READMEYes · 165 wordsVignettesNoNEWSYes · 100% structured · mentions 0.3.0Citation fileYes · cites a publicationWebsitenot declared in DESCRIPTION

Help pages: 7
Examples that run: 71%5 run in a plain check · 2 only when donttest examples are enabled (R CMD check --as-cran)
Exported functions with examples: 100%
Documented parameters: 92%
Return-value docs: 60%
Help pages citing references: 29%

How these are measured

Downloads

2.7K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #16,611 · ~7/day · ~224/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

29230 days

75390 days

2.7K1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on343 r2u4 autocran

How downloads are counted

Repository

const-ae/mixdir ↗Account: const-ae

17Stars

0Forks

0Open issues

0Open PRs

3Releases

62Commits

1Commit identities

r-packageclusteringcategorical-datavariational-inferencequestionnaires

62 commits · Last activity 2023-09-11 · 0% stars, 30d

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

2025-07-14 · 152026-07-07 · 17

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

4 development-tooling and community-health practices detected across 4 families in the upstream repository

Checks run against github.com/const-ae/mixdir on 2026-10-18.

Docs source (1)

README.Rmd

Reproducibility and dev environment (1)

data-raw/

CRAN release process (1)

cran-comments.md

Lint, format, editor (1)

RStudio project

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

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

12 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing mixdir adds 3 packages (3 with compiled code, 2.9 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: Rcpp 1.8 MB, RcppArmadillo 1.0 MB, extraDistr 146 KB.

Depends (1)

R >= 2.10

Imports (2)

extraDistr Rcpp

LinkingTo (1)

Rcpp

Suggests (10)

testthat tibble purrr dplyr rmutil pheatmap mcclust ggplot2 tidyrutils

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

0direct

0indirect

Nothing depends on this yet.

How these are counted

Code & Tests

Datasets

People & History

People (2)

Constantin Ahlmann-Eltze

Author, Maintainer since 0.1.0 (2018)

Christopher Yau

Thesis advisor

Releases (3)

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R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
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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
0.3.0Latest
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2019-09-20 · current release · diff ↗
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R 3.6.0 released · 2019-04-26
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2019-03-11 · diff ↗
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2018-06-18
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R 3.5.0 released · 2018-04-23

Package metadata

First published: 2018-06-18
Total releases: 3 / 8 yrs
License: GPL-3 OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 2.10
Bundled data: 34 KB / 1 file
Download size: 220 KB

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' entry:

citation("mixdir")

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

It points to 10.1109/dsaa.2018.00068.

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 mixdir version 0.3.0 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-21. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

From data release v2026-10-21, which the citation names so these numbers can be found later. More on citing and the projects behind them.

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