R Observatory: Metrics for partition version 0.2.2

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

partition

0.2.2Package record

Agglomerative Partitioning Framework for Dimension Reduction

2packages depend

4Kdownloads / year

95.8%test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Malcolm BarrettCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Website ↗Issues ↗

A fast and flexible framework for agglomerative partitioning. 'partition' uses an approach called Direct-Measure-Reduce to create new variables that maintain the user-specified minimum level of information. Each reduced variable is also interpretable: the original variables map to one and only one variable in the reduced data set. 'partition' is flexible, as well: how variables are selected to reduce, how information loss is measured, and the way data is reduced can all be customized. 'partition' is based on the Partition framework discussed in Millstein et al. (2020) doi:10.1093/bioinformatics/btz661.

Changes in 0.2.2

Allowed reduce_first_component() to behave independently of measure_variance_explained() and better documented their relationship (#41)

From NEWS.md in the release

Install

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

install.packages("partition", 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("USCbiostats/partition")

Development version from USCbiostats/partition. 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-partition

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-partition

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-partition

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: 8.6 min · r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

Status changes

OK13 OK2026-08-05
NOTE12 OK, 1 NOTE2026-08-01
OK13 OK2026-05-02
NOTE12 OK, 2 NOTE2026-04-22
ERROR11 OK, 2 NOTE, 1 ERROR2026-04-18

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NOTE12 OK, 2 NOTE2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

Documentation signals are not tracked yet for this package.

WebsiteYes · pkgdown

Vignettes (2)

Extending partition HTML
Introduction to Partition HTML

How these are measured

Downloads

4K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #11,468 · ~11/day · ~334/mo

partition Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

33730 days

92890 days

4K1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on366 r2u5 autocran

How downloads are counted

Repository

uscbiostats/partition ↗Organization: USCbiostats

37Stars

4Forks

2Open issues

0Open PRs

9Releases

264Commits

4Commit identities

rdimensionality-reductiondata-reductionpartitional-clustering

264 commits · Last activity 2024-11-10 · Default branch at 0.2.2.9000, ahead of CRAN 0.2.2 (checked 2026-10-11)

Responsiveness

How these are sampled

PRs merged (all time): 100%
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed issues: 11
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed PRs: 0

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

12 development-tooling and community-health practices detected across 6 families in the upstream repository

Checks run against github.com/uscbiostats/partition on 2026-10-11.

Continuous integration (2)

GitHub ActionsR CMD check workflow

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

Governance and community (3)

Code of conductContributing guideIssue templates

Docs source (4)

README.Rmdpkgdown

GitHub Pages site last deployed 2024-11-10 · The repository has a site deploy workflow

Coverage (1)

Coverage reporting (Codecov)

Show all practicesHide 2 practices

Reproducibility and dev environment (1)

data-raw/

Lint, format, editor (1)

RStudio project

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

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

24 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing partition adds 37 packages (18 with compiled code, 32 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: stringi 11 MB, ggplot2 6.0 MB, Rcpp 1.8 MB.

Depends (1)

R >= 3.3.0

Imports (15)

crayon dplyr forcats ggplot2 infotheo magrittrMASSpillar progress purrr Rcpp rlang stringr tibble tidyr

LinkingTo (2)

Rcpp RcppArmadillo

Suggests (8)

covr genieclust ggcorrplot gtools knitr rmarkdown spelling testthat

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

2direct

0indirect

Imports 2

Depends, Imports or LinkingTo, most downloaded first

MRIreduce modACDC

How these are counted

Code & Tests

Datasets

People & History

People (3)

Malcolm Barrett

Author, Maintainer since 0.1.0 (2019)

Joshua Millstein

Author

Katelyn Queen

Author · added in 0.2.0

Releases (8)

R
R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
R
R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11
0.2.2Latest
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2024-10-09 · current release · diff ↗
0.2.1
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2024-05-22 · diff ↗
R
R 4.4.0 released · 2024-04-24
0.2.0
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2024-01-24 · diff ↗ ·
added 1 export
super_partition
R
R 4.3.0 released · 2023-04-21
R
R 4.2.0 released · 2022-04-22
0.1.4
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2021-10-05 · diff ↗
R
R 4.1.0 released · 2021-05-18
0.1.3
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2021-01-07 · diff ↗
0.1.2
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2020-05-24 · diff ↗
R
R 4.0.0 released · 2020-04-24
0.1.1
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2019-12-12 · diff ↗
0.1.0
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2019-05-17
R
R 3.6.0 released · 2019-04-26

Package metadata

First published: 2019-05-17
Total releases: 8 / 7 yrs
License: MIT + file LICENSE OSI
Download size: 1.2 MB

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("partition")

Format

Barrett, M., Millstein, J., & Queen, K. (2024). partition: Agglomerative Partitioning Framework for Dimension Reduction (Version 0.2.2) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.partition

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Format

APA

Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for partition version 0.2.2 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-19. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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