R Observatory: Metrics for popsom version 6.0

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

This package was removed from CRAN on 2023-09-11. Its history is shown below.

Reason: issues were not corrected in time. Use of Fortran RANDOM_NUMBER

Details below reflect version 6.0, its last release before removal.

popsom

6.0Package record

An Efficient Implementation of Kohonen's Self-Organizing Maps (SOMs) with Starburst Visualizations

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Overview

About

Maintained by Lutz HamelCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗

Kohonen's self-organizing maps with a number of distinguishing features: (1) An efficient, single threaded, stochastic training algorithm inspired by ideas from tensor algebra. Provides significant speedups over traditional single-threaded training algorithms. No special accelerator hardware required (see doi:10.1007/978-3-030-01057-7_60). (2) Automatic centroid detection and visualization using starbursts. (3) Two models of the data: (a) a self organizing map model, (b) a centroid based clustering model. (4) A number of easily accessible quality metrics for the self organizing map and the centroid based cluster model (see doi:10.1007/978-3-319-28518-4_4).

Changes in 6.0

Renamed the functions in the interface to avoid collisions with S3 functions within the R environment. We know that this is another renaming of the POPSOM interface and we apologize for any inconvenience. We expect that the interface is now stable for the foreseeable future.
New features:
The map.minimal object. This is an object that only contains the trained neurons and nothing else. This is an appropriate model when POPSOM is used as a preprocessing step and no other model information is needed. Note that map.minimal objects cannot be processed by any of the other functions in the POPSOM interface.
The map.convergence function provides details about the underlying convergence characteristics.
Bugfixes
Most importantly the artificial limit of a minimum of 50 instances in the training data has been removed.

From NEWS.md in the release

Install

R (source archive)pak (dev)

url <- "https://cran.r-project.org/src/contrib/Archive/popsom/popsom_6.0.tar.gz"
pkgFile <- "popsom_6.0.tar.gz"
download.file(url, pkgFile)
install.packages(pkgFile, type = "source", repos = NULL)

This package is no longer on CRAN, so install.packages() cannot fetch it by name. This downloads the last archived source (6.0) and builds it locally. Install its dependencies first, and note that building from source needs the usual compiler toolchain.

if (!requireNamespace("pak", quietly = TRUE))
  install.packages("pak", repos = "https://cloud.r-project.org/")
pak::pak("lutzhamel/popsom")

Development version from lutzhamel/popsom. Installs pak first if it is not already available.

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In release 6.0

READMENoVignettesNoNEWSYes · 100% structured · mentions 6.0Citation fileNoWebsitenot declared in DESCRIPTION

Help pages: 9
Examples that run: 100%9 run in a plain check
Exported functions with examples: 100%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 78%
Help pages citing references: 56%

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People (6)

Lutz Hamel

Author, Maintainer since 2.2 (2013)

Benjamin Ott

Author

Gregory Breard

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Robert Tatoian

Author · added in 4.2

Michael Eiger

Author · added in 4.3.0

Vishakh Gopu

Author · added in 4.2

Releases (13)

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R 4.4.0 released · 2024-04-24
archivedRemoved from CRAN
2023-09-11
issues were not corrected in time Use of Fortran RANDOM_NUMBER
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R 4.3.0 released · 2023-04-21
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R 4.2.0 released · 2022-04-22
6.0
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2021-12-20 · diff ↗ ·
removed 8 exports
map, fitted, marginal, position, predict, significance, starburst, summary

added 9 exports
map.build, map.fitted, map.convergence, map.marginal, map.position, map.predict, map.significance, map.starburst, map.summary
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R 4.1.0 released · 2021-05-18
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summary
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2020-12-09 · diff ↗ ·
removed 9 exports
map.build, map.convergence, map.embed, map.topo, map.starburst, map.projection, map.significance, map.neuron, map.marginal

added 7 exports
map, starburst, fitted, predict, position, significance, marginal
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R 4.0.0 released · 2020-04-24
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R 3.6.0 released · 2019-04-26
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R 3.5.0 released · 2018-04-23
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2017-06-01 · diff ↗ ·
removed 2 exports
map.embedding, map.accuracy

added 4 exports
map.embed, map.topo, map.neuron, map.marginal

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R 3.4.0 released · 2017-04-21
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2016-08-13 · diff ↗ ·
removed 1 export
pattern:.

added 7 exports
map.build, map.convergence, map.embedding, map.accuracy, map.starburst, map.projection, map.significance
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R 3.3.0 released · 2016-05-03
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R 3.1.0 released · 2014-04-10
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R 3.0.0 released · 2013-04-03
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R 2.15.0 released · 2012-03-30

Package metadata

First published: 2013-03-12
Total releases: 13 / 13 yrs
License: GPL-3 OSI

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Hamel, L., Ott, B., Breard, G., Tatoian, R., Eiger, M., & Gopu, V. (n.d.). popsom: An Efficient Implementation of Kohonen's Self-Organizing Maps (SOMs) with Starburst Visualizations (Version 6.0) [Computer software]. Retrieved October 25, 2026, from https://CRAN.R-project.org/package=popsom

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Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for popsom version 6.0 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-25. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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