R Observatory: Metrics for sparcl version 1.0.4

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

sparcl

1.0.4Package record

Perform Sparse Hierarchical Clustering and Sparse K-Means Clustering

2packages dependsuggested by 2

10.4Kdownloads / year

–test coverage

9/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Daniela WittenCRAN page ↗

Implements the sparse clustering methods of Witten and Tibshirani (2010): "A framework for feature selection in clustering"; published in Journal of the American Statistical Association 105(490): 713-726.

Install

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

install.packages("sparcl", 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-sparcl

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-sparcl

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-sparcl

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

4NOTE9OK

Check messages

NOTECRAN incoming feasibilityr-devel-linux-x86_64-debian-clang, r-devel-linux-x86_64-debian-gcc

Maintainer: ‘Daniela Witten <dwitten@u.washington.edu>’

No Authors@R field in DESCRIPTION.
Please add one, modifying
  Authors@R: c(person(given = c("Daniela", "M."),
                      family = "Witten",
                      role = "aut"),
               person(given = "Robert",
                      family = "Tibshirani",
                      role = "aut"),
               person(given = "Daniela",
                      family = "Witten",
                      role = "cre",
                      email = "dwitten@u.washington.edu"))
as necessary.

NOTEcompiled coder-devel-linux-x86_64-fedora-clang, r-devel-linux-x86_64-fedora-gcc

File ‘sparcl/libs/sparcl.so’:
  Found no calls to: ‘R_registerRoutines’, ‘R_useDynamicSymbols’

It is good practice to register native routines and to disable symbol
search.

See ‘Writing portable packages’ in the ‘Writing R Extensions’ manual.

CRAN check page ↗

Slowest check: 2.0 min · r-devel-windows-x86_64

Status changes

NOTE9 OK, 4 NOTENow
NOTE10 OK, 4 NOTE2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 1.0.4

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: 83%
Documented parameters: 90%
Return-value docs: 83%
Help pages citing references: 100%

How these are measured

Downloads

10.4K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #4,216 · ~28/day · ~866/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

53530 days

2.1K90 days

10.4K1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on424 r2u5 autocran731 conda_forge99 c2d4u

How downloads are counted

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

0 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing sparcl 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

2direct

0indirect

Imports 2

Suggested by 2

Depends, Imports or LinkingTo, most downloaded first

nnmf SCBiclust

Suggests, most downloaded first

FCPS sharp

How these are counted

Code & Tests

People & History

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

Daniela M. Witten

Robert Tibshirani

Maintainer since at least 1.0.3 (2013)

Releases (5)

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R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
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R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11
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R 4.4.0 released · 2024-04-24
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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 4.0.0 released · 2020-04-24
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R 3.6.0 released · 2019-04-26
unarchivedReturned to CRAN
2018-10-24
1.0.4Latest
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2018-10-24 · current release · diff ↗
archivedRemoved from CRAN
2018-07-20
check problems were not corrected despite reminders
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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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R 3.1.0 released · 2014-04-10

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R 3.0.0 released · 2013-04-03
1.0.3
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2013-01-04 · diff ↗ ·
removed 10 exports
print.hclustsparseperm, plot.hclustsparseperm, plot.hclustsparse, print.hclustsparse, print.kmeanssparseperm, plot.kmeanssparseperm, plot.multikmeanssparse, print.multikmeanssparse, plot.kmeanssparse, print.kmeanssparse

added 8 exports
print.KMeansSparseCluster, plot.KMeansSparseCluster, print.KMeansSparseCluster.permute, plot.KMeansSparseCluster.permute, print.HierarchicalSparseCluster, plot.HierarchicalSparseCluster, print.HierarchicalSparseCluster.permute, plot.HierarchicalSparseCluster.permute
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R 2.15.0 released · 2012-03-30
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2011-12-07 · diff ↗
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R 2.14.0 released · 2011-10-31
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R 2.13.0 released · 2011-04-13
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R 2.12.0 released · 2010-10-15
1.0.1
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2010-05-16 · diff ↗
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R 2.11.0 released · 2010-04-22
1.0
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2009-12-02
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R 2.10.0 released · 2009-10-26

Package metadata

First published: 2009-12-02
Total releases: 5 / 17 yrs
License: GPL-2 OSI
Download size: 14 KB

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Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for sparcl version 1.0.4 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-18. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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