R Observatory: Metrics for sphereclust version 1.2

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

sphereclust

1.2Package record

Model Based Clustering for Spherical Data Using Elliptically Symmetric Distributions

0packages depend

1.3Kdownloads / year

–test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Michail TsagrisCRAN page ↗

Model based clustering with spherical data using mixtures of elliptically symmetric distributions, namely mixtures of spherical elliptically symmetric projected Cauchy (SESPC) or mixtures of elliptically symmetric angular Gaussian (ESAG) distributions. The relevant paper is: Perdikis T., Alharbi N. and Tsagris M. (2026). doi:10.48550/arXiv.2605.27496.

Install

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

install.packages("sphereclust", 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-sphereclust

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-sphereclust

RPMs from the iucar/cran COPR, rebuilt from CRAN.

For install.packages() integration in R, also: sudo dnf install R-CoprManager

Health

CRAN checks

13OK

CRAN check page ↗

Slowest check: 2.4 min · r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

Status changes

OK13 OK2026-08-04
NOTE12 OK, 1 NOTE2026-08-01
OK13 OK2026-06-09
ERROR12 OK, 1 ERROR2026-06-08
OK6 OK2026-06-02

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 1.2

READMENoVignettesNoNEWSNoCitation fileNoWebsitenot declared in DESCRIPTION

Help pages: 8includes a package overview page
Examples that run: 86%6 run in a plain check · 1 only when donttest examples are enabled (R CMD check --as-cran)
Exported functions with examples: not tracked
Documented parameters: not tracked
Return-value docs: not tracked
Help pages citing references: 100%

How these are measured

Downloads

1.3K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #16,448 · ~4/day · ~112/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

27330 days

76290 days

1.3K1 year

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Also on28 r2u

How downloads are counted

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

6 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing sphereclust adds 88 packages (54 with compiled code, 82 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: BH 14 MB, sf 9.3 MB, ggplot2 6.0 MB.

Depends (1)

R >= 4.0

Imports (9)

DirectionalgraphicsgrDevicesmixtureparallelrangen rgl Rfaststats

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (1)

Rfast2

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

0direct

0indirect

Nothing depends on this yet.

How these are counted

Code & Tests

People & History

People (2)

Michail Tsagris

Author, Maintainer since 1.0 (2026)

Theodoros Perdikis

Contributor

Releases (3)

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1.2Latest
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2026-10-05 · current release · diff ↗
1.1
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2026-09-02 · diff ↗
1.0
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2026-06-01
R
R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24

Package metadata

First published: 2026-06-01
Total releases: 3 / 1 yrs
License: GPL (>= 2) OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 4.0
Download size: 12 KB

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("sphereclust")

Format

Tsagris, M., & Perdikis, T. (2026). sphereclust: Model Based Clustering for Spherical Data Using Elliptically Symmetric Distributions (Version 1.2) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.sphereclust

This package has no citation file, so citation() returns this entry built from DESCRIPTION.

Cite the R Observatory

For a number measured here: a download total, a coverage figure, an archival date.

Format

APA

Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for sphereclust version 1.2 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-23. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

From data release v2026-10-23, which the citation names so these numbers can be found later. More on citing and the projects behind them.

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