R Observatory: Metrics for protoclust version 1.6.4

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

protoclust

1.6.4Package record

Hierarchical Clustering with Prototypes

3packages dependsuggested by 3

41.9Kdownloads / year

–test coverage

11/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Jacob BienCRAN page ↗

Performs minimax linkage hierarchical clustering. Every cluster has an associated prototype element that represents that cluster as described in Bien, J., and Tibshirani, R. (2011), "Hierarchical Clustering with Prototypes via Minimax Linkage," The Journal of the American Statistical Association, 106(495), 1075-1084.

Install

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

install.packages("protoclust", 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-protoclust

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-protoclust

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-protoclust

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: ‘Jacob Bien <jbien@usc.edu>’

No Authors@R field in DESCRIPTION.
Please add one, modifying
  Authors@R: c(person(given = "Jacob",
                      family = "Bien",
                      role = c("aut", "cre"),
                      email = "jbien@usc.edu"),
               person(given = "Rob",
                      family = "Tibshirani",
                      role = "aut"))
as necessary.

CRAN check page ↗

Slowest check: 1.8 min · r-devel-windows-x86_64

Status changes

NOTE11 OK, 2 NOTENow
NOTE12 OK, 2 NOTE2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 1.6.4

READMENoVignettesNoNEWSNoCitation fileNoWebsitenot declared in DESCRIPTION

Help pages: 7includes a package overview page
Examples that run: 100%5 run in a plain check
Exported functions with examples: 75%
Documented parameters: 91%
Return-value docs: 75%
Help pages citing references: 71%

How these are measured

Downloads

41.9K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #2,313 · ~115/day · ~3.5K/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

2.6K30 days

7.2K90 days

41.9K1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on472 r2u2 autocran1.4K conda_forge121 c2d4u

How downloads are counted

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

0 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing protoclust adds no packages beyond those that come with R.

Depends (0)

none

Imports (0)

none

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (0)

none

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

3direct

1indirect

Imports 3

Suggested by 3

Depends, Imports or LinkingTo, most downloaded first

TreeSearch SEMgraph protoshiny

Suggests, most downloaded first

mlr3cluster TreeDist FCPS

How these are counted

Code & Tests

People & History

People (from the free-text Author field) (2)

Jacob Bien

Rob Tibshirani

Maintainer since 1.0 (2011)

Releases (7)

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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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R 3.4.0 released · 2017-04-21
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R 3.3.0 released · 2016-05-03
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R 3.2.0 released · 2015-04-16
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2014-05-31
memory access errors were not corrected
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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
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R 2.14.0 released · 2011-10-31
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R 2.13.0 released · 2011-04-13

Package metadata

First published: 2011-07-07
Total releases: 7 / 15 yrs
License: GPL-2 OSI
Download size: 14 KB

Appears in task views

Cluster Analysis & Finite Mixture Models

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citation("protoclust")

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Format

APA

Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for protoclust version 1.6.4 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-18. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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