genieclust: Genie: Fast and Robust Hierarchical Clustering

Genie is a robust hierarchical clustering algorithm (Gagolewski, Bartoszuk, Cena, 2016 <doi:10.1016/j.ins.2016.05.003>). 'genieclust' is its faster, more capable implementation (Gagolewski, 2021 <doi:10.1016/j.softx.2021.100722>). It enables clustering with respect to mutual reachability distances, allowing it to act as an alternative to 'HDBSCAN*' that can identify any number of clusters or their entire hierarchy. When combined with the 'deadwood' package, it can act as an outlier detector. Additional package features include the Gini and Bonferroni inequality indices, external cluster validity measures (e.g., the normalised clustering accuracy, the adjusted Rand index, the Fowlkes-Mallows index, and normalised mutual information), and internal cluster validity indices (e.g., the Calinski-Harabasz, Davies-Bouldin, Ball-Hall, Silhouette, and generalised Dunn indices). The 'Python' version of 'genieclust' is available via 'PyPI'.

Version: 1.3.0
Imports: Rcpp, stats, utils, deadwood
LinkingTo: Rcpp
Suggests: datasets
Published: 2026-02-23
DOI: 10.32614/CRAN.package.genieclust
Author: Marek Gagolewski ORCID iD [aut, cre, cph], Maciej Bartoszuk [ctb], Anna Cena [ctb], Peter M. Larsen [ctb]
Maintainer: Marek Gagolewski <marek at gagolewski.com>
BugReports: https://github.com/gagolews/genieclust/issues
License: AGPL-3
URL: https://genieclust.gagolewski.com/, https://clustering-benchmarks.gagolewski.com/, https://github.com/gagolews/genieclust
NeedsCompilation: yes
SystemRequirements: OpenMP
Citation: genieclust citation info
Materials: NEWS
In views: Cluster
CRAN checks: genieclust results

Documentation:

Reference manual: genieclust.html , genieclust.pdf

Downloads:

Package source: genieclust_1.3.0.tar.gz
Windows binaries: r-devel: genieclust_1.2.0.zip, r-release: genieclust_1.2.0.zip, r-oldrel: genieclust_1.2.0.zip
macOS binaries: r-release (arm64): genieclust_1.2.0.tgz, r-oldrel (arm64): genieclust_1.2.0.tgz, r-release (x86_64): genieclust_1.2.0.tgz, r-oldrel (x86_64): genieclust_1.2.0.tgz
Old sources: genieclust archive

Reverse dependencies:

Reverse depends: genie, omada
Reverse imports: Kmedians, modACDC, RGMM
Reverse suggests: partition

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