R Observatory: Metrics for vscc version 0.8

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

vscc

0.8Package record

Variable Selection for Clustering and Classification

0packages depend

3.5Kdownloads / year

–test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Mackenzie R. NealCRAN page ↗

Performs variable selection/feature reduction under a clustering or classification framework. In particular, it can be used in an automated fashion using mixture model-based methods ('teigen' and 'mclust' are currently supported). Can account for mixtures of non-Gaussian distributions via Manly transform (via 'ManlyMix'). See Andrews and McNicholas (2014) doi:10.1007/s00357-013-9139-2 and Neal and McNicholas (2023) doi:10.48550/arXiv.2305.16464.

Install

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

install.packages("vscc", 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-vscc

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-vscc

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-vscc

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: 2.0 min · r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

Status changes

OK13 OK2026-08-04
NOTE12 OK, 1 NOTE2026-08-01
OK14 OK2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 0.8

READMENoVignettesNoNEWSNoCitation fileYes · cites a publicationWebsitenot declared in DESCRIPTION

Help pages: 6includes a package overview page
Examples that run: 80%4 run in a plain check · 1 never run
Exported functions with examples: 100%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 100%
Help pages citing references: 50%

How these are measured

Downloads

3.5K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #17,471 · ~10/day · ~292/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

27030 days

73790 days

3.5K1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on86 r2u2 autocran

How downloads are counted

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

4 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing vscc adds 17 packages (14 with compiled code, 23 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: BH 14 MB, mclust 2.7 MB, Rcpp 1.8 MB.

Depends (1)

ManlyMix

Imports (3)

teigen mclust MixGHD

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (0)

none

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

0direct

0indirect

Nothing depends on this yet.

How these are counted

Code & Tests

People & History

People (3)

Mackenzie R. Neal

Author, Maintainer since 0.8 (2025) · added in 0.6

Jeffrey L. Andrews

Author

Paul D. McNicholas

Author

Previously maintained by Paul D. McNicholas (0.5 to 0.7) and Jeffrey L. Andrews (0.2 to 0.4).

Listed in earlier versions (1)

Mackenzie Neal

no longer listed · 0.5

Releases (6)

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R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
0.8Latest
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2025-10-11 · current release · diff ↗
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R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11
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R 4.4.0 released · 2024-04-24
unarchivedReturned to CRAN
2023-10-18
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2023-10-18 · diff ↗
archivedRemoved from CRAN
2023-09-05
issues were not corrected despite reminders
0.6
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2023-06-06 · diff ↗
0.5
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2023-05-08 · diff ↗ ·
added 1 export
vsccmanly
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R 4.3.0 released · 2023-04-21
unarchivedReturned to CRAN
2022-10-16
0.4
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2022-10-16 · diff ↗
archivedRemoved from CRAN
2022-05-10
email to the maintainer is undeliverable
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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
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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

Package metadata

First published: 2013-11-17
Total releases: 6 / 13 yrs
License: GPL (>= 2) OSI
Download size: 9.2 KB

Cite

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Run in R for the authors' entry:

citation("vscc")

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

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Format

APA

Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for vscc version 0.8 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-25. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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