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sparcl

Perform Sparse Hierarchical Clustering and Sparse K-Means Clustering

v1.0.4 · Oct 24, 2018 · GPL-2

Description

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.

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

No Authors@R field in DESCRIPTION.
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  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"))
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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.
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compiled code

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

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

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

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

No Authors@R field in DESCRIPTION.
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  Authors@R: c(person(given = c("Daniela", "M."),
                      family = "Witten",
                      role = "aut"),
    
...[truncated]...
family = "Tibshirani",
                      role = "aut"),
               person(given = "Daniela",
                      family = "Witten",
                      role = "cre",
                      email = "dwitten@u.washington.edu"))
as necessary.
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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"),
    
...[truncated]...
family = "Tibshirani",
                      role = "aut"),
               person(given = "Daniela",
                      family = "Witten",
                      role = "cre",
                      email = "dwitten@u.washington.edu"))
as necessary.
NOTE r-devel-linux-x86_64-fedora-clang

compiled code

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.
NOTE r-devel-linux-x86_64-fedora-gcc

compiled code

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.

Code

Structure

Lines of code

1,206

Files

22

Compiled share

3.2%

Has compiled src

Yes

Language breakdown

R 623 (51.7%)C/C++/src 38 (3.2%)Docs 545 (45.2%)

API

Exported functions

14

Internal functions

15

Recent export changes

v1.0.3+8 print.KMeansSparseCluster, plot.KMeansSparseCluster, print.KMeansSparseCluster.permute +5 more  −10 print.hclustsparseperm, plot.hclustsparseperm, plot.hclustsparse 7 more
v1.0+16 print.hclustsparseperm, plot.hclustsparseperm, plot.hclustsparse +13 more

Testing & CI

Has tests

No

Test-to-code ratio

0.00

testthat edition

CI present

No

CI type

[]

PR gated

No

Docs

Return-value doc rate

83.3%

\dontrun example ratio

0%

Roxygen coverage

100%

Has pkgdown

No

NEWS present

No

Health & Security signals

Informational signals; not verdicts.

on.exit coverage

33.3%

Unsafe pattern score

0

Dep constraint coverage

Secret pattern count

0

Bundled 3rd-party code

2 items

Portability & License

Min R version

System requirements

C++ standard

License

GPL-2

License flags

SPDX valid, OSI approved

History

Versions

5

First release

2009-07-06

Latest release

2018-10-24

Avg cadence

638 days

Cold removal rate

100%

Dep drift

0

LOC over versions

v1.0: 1,156 LOCv1.0.1: 1,157 LOCv1.0.2: 1,197 LOCv1.0.3: 1,196 LOCv1.0.4: 1,206 LOC

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Reverse Dependencies (4)

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Dependency Network

Dependencies Reverse dependencies SCBiclust nnmf FCPS sharp sparcl

Version History

6 tracked
new 1.0.4 Mar 10, 2026
updated 1.0.4 ← 1.0.3 diff Oct 23, 2018
updated 1.0.3 ← 1.0.2 diff Jan 3, 2013
updated 1.0.2 ← 1.0.1 diff Dec 6, 2011
updated 1.0.1 ← 1.0 diff May 15, 2010
new 1.0 Dec 1, 2009