R Observatory: Metrics for partitionComparison version 0.2.6

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

partitionComparison

0.2.6Package record

Implements Measures for the Comparison of Two Partitions

0packages dependsuggested by 1

2.8Kdownloads / year

89.2%test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Fabian BallCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Issues ↗

Provides several measures ((dis)similarity, distance/metric, correlation, entropy) for comparing two partitions of the same set of objects. The different measures can be assigned to three different classes: Pair comparison (containing the famous Jaccard and Rand indices), set based, and information theory based. Many of the implemented measures can be found in Albatineh AN, Niewiadomska-Bugaj M and Mihalko D (2006) doi:10.1007/s00357-006-0017-z and Meila M (2007) doi:10.1016/j.jmva.2006.11.013. Partitions are represented by vectors of class labels which allow a straightforward integration with existing clustering algorithms (e.g. kmeans()). The package is mostly based on the S4 object system.

Install

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

install.packages("partitionComparison", 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("KIT-IISM-EM/partitionComparison")

Development version from KIT-IISM-EM/partitionComparison. 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-partitioncomparison

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-partitionComparison

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-partitionComparison

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: 1.4 min · r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

Status changes

OK13 OK2026-08-05
NOTE12 OK, 1 NOTE2026-08-01
OK13 OK2026-06-09
WARNING12 OK, 1 WARNING2026-06-08
OK14 OK2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

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Documentation

In release 0.2.6

READMENoVignettesNoNEWSNoCitation fileNoWebsitenot declared in DESCRIPTION

Help pages: 52includes a package overview page
Examples that run: 100%41 run in a plain check
Exported functions with examples: 80%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 2%
Help pages citing references: 67% with a bibliography file

How these are measured

Downloads

2.8K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #16,317 · ~8/day · ~237/mo

Releases R versions

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28230 days

75890 days

2.8K1 year

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Repository

kit-iism-em/partitioncomparison ↗Organization: KIT-IISM-EMArchived

2Stars

2Forks

0Open issues

0Open PRs

0Releases

17Commits

3Commit identities

rpartitionscomparisonsimilarity-measuresdissimilarity-measuresdistance-measures

License file reads as MIT · 17 commits · Last activity 2023-08-23

Responsiveness

not measured

Stars over time

2022-03-26 · 22026-07-07 · 2

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/kit-iism-em/partitioncomparison on 2026-10-11.

Reproducibility and dev environment (1)

Makefile

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

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

3 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing partitionComparison adds 3 packages (2 with compiled code, 1.9 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: rbibutils 1.1 MB, lpSolve 457 KB, Rdpack 370 KB.

Depends (1)

R >= 3.2.0

Imports (3)

methodsRdpack lpSolve

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (1)

testthat

Enhances (0)

none

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Reverse dependencies

0direct

0indirect

Suggested by 1

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People & History

People (2)

Fabian Ball

Andreas Geyer-Schulz

Copyright holder

Releases (5)

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R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
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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 3.4.0 released · 2017-04-21

Package metadata

First published: 2017-08-25
Total releases: 5 / 9 yrs
License: MIT + file LICENSE OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 3.2.0
Download size: 81 KB

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("partitionComparison")

Format

Ball, F., & Geyer-Schulz, A. (2023). partitionComparison: Implements Measures for the Comparison of Two Partitions (Version 0.2.6) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.partitionComparison

This package has no citation file, so citation() returns this entry built from DESCRIPTION.

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Format

APA

Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for partitionComparison version 0.2.6 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-19. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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