R Observatory: Metrics for smacof version 2.1-7

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

smacof

2.1-7Package record

Multidimensional Scaling

16packages dependsuggested by 9

85.2Kdownloads / year

–test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Patrick MairCRAN page ↗

Implements the following approaches for multidimensional scaling (MDS) based on stress minimization using majorization (smacof): ratio/interval/ordinal/spline MDS on symmetric dissimilarity matrices, MDS with external constraints on the configuration, individual differences scaling (idioscal, indscal), MDS with spherical restrictions, and ratio/interval/ordinal/spline unfolding (circular restrictions, row-conditional). Various tools and extensions like jackknife MDS, bootstrap MDS, permutation tests, MDS biplots, gravity models, unidimensional scaling, drift vectors (asymmetric MDS), classical scaling, and Procrustes are implemented as well.

Changes in 2.1-7

candisc dependency removed, plot.msbi() modified accordingly.

From inst/NEWS.Rd in the release

Install

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

install.packages("smacof", 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-smacof

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-smacof

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-smacof

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: 7.6 min · r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

Status changes

OK13 OK2026-08-04
NOTE12 OK, 1 NOTE2026-08-01
OK13 OK2026-06-27
WARNING12 OK, 1 WARNING2026-06-14
OK13 OK2026-05-02

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ERROR11 OK, 1 ERROR2026-04-25
OK14 OK2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 2.1-7

READMENoVignettesYes · 3 · dynamicNEWSYes · mentions 2.1-7Citation fileYes · cites a publicationWebsitenot declared in DESCRIPTION

Cites a JSS article

Help pages: 60
Examples that run: 100%59 run in a plain check
Exported functions with examples: 96%
Documented parameters: 80%
Return-value docs: 92%
Help pages citing references: 85%

Vignettes (3)

How these are measured

Downloads

85.2K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #1,375 · ~234/day · ~7.1K/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

7.3K30 days

20.5K90 days

85.2K1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on719 r2u4 autocran3.7K conda_forge181 c2d4u

How downloads are counted

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

17 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing smacof adds 103 packages (56 with compiled code, 79 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: stringi 11 MB, ggplot2 6.0 MB, data.table 5.7 MB.

Depends (4)

R >= 3.5.0plotrix colorspace e1071

Imports (13)

graphicsstatspolynom Hmisc nnlsgrDevicesMASSweights ellipse wordcloudparallelforeach doParallel

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (6)

knitr prefmod MPsychoR calibrate ggplot2 rmarkdown

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

16direct

11indirect

Depends 2 · Imports 14

Suggested by 9

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Depends, Imports or LinkingTo, most downloaded first

networktools mdsOpt asymmetry AnthropMMD onemap mappoly cops tidylearn smacofx ConsRankClass ecoregime pams stops MDSMap nzilbb.vowels fmdu

Suggests, most downloaded first

seriation tidydr FCPS ecotraj topolow dyndimred deaviz polykde spqrp

How these are counted

Code & Tests

Datasets

People & History

People (4)

Patrick Mair

Author, Maintainer since 1.5-0 (2014)

Jan De Leeuw

Author

Patrick J. F. Groenen

Author · added in 1.5-0

Ingwer Borg

Contributor · added in 1.5-0

Previously maintained by Jan de Leeuw (0.9-0 to 1.2-3).

Releases (39)

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Package metadata

First published: 2008-02-06
Total releases: 39 / 18 yrs
License: GPL-3 OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 3.5.0
Bundled data: 129 KB / 41 files
Download size: 1.0 MB

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Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' entry:

citation("smacof")

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

It points to 10.18637/jss.v031.i03, 10.18637/jss.v102.i10.

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Format

APA

Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for smacof version 2.1-7 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-25. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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