clustMixType: k-Prototypes Clustering for Mixed Variable-Type Data

Functions to perform k-prototypes partitioning clustering for mixed variable-type data according to Z.Huang (1998): Extensions to the k-Means Algorithm for Clustering Large Data Sets with Categorical Variables, Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery 2, 283-304 and G.Szepannek et al. (2025): Clustering Large Mixed-Type Data with Ordinal Variables, Adv Data Anal Classif 19, 749–767.

Version: 0.5-1
Imports: RColorBrewer, tibble, combinat, dplyr, rlang, cluster
Suggests: testthat
Published: 2026-05-30
DOI: 10.32614/CRAN.package.clustMixType
Author: Gero Szepannek [aut, cre], Rabea Aschenbruck [aut]
Maintainer: Gero Szepannek <gero.szepannek at web.de>
License: GPL-2 | GPL-3 [expanded from: GPL (≥ 2)]
NeedsCompilation: no
Citation: clustMixType citation info
Materials: README, NEWS
In views: Cluster
CRAN checks: clustMixType results

Documentation:

Reference manual: clustMixType.html , clustMixType.pdf

Downloads:

Package source: clustMixType_0.5-1.tar.gz
Windows binaries: r-devel: clustMixType_0.4-2.zip, r-release: clustMixType_0.4-2.zip, r-oldrel: clustMixType_0.4-2.zip
macOS binaries: r-release (arm64): clustMixType_0.4-2.tgz, r-oldrel (arm64): clustMixType_0.4-2.tgz, r-release (x86_64): clustMixType_0.4-2.tgz, r-oldrel (x86_64): clustMixType_0.4-2.tgz
Old sources: clustMixType archive

Reverse dependencies:

Reverse imports: cclustr, citrus, clustTMB, iClusterVB, multilevLCA, phyloregion, radiant.multivariate
Reverse suggests: butcher, CAST, FCPS, FeatureImpCluster, mlr3cluster, tidyclust, vetiver
Reverse enhances: klaR

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