Projections are common dimensionality reduction methods, which represent high-dimensional data in a two-dimensional space. However, when restricting the output space to two dimensions, which results in a two dimensional scatter plot (projection) of the data, low dimensional similarities do not represent high dimensional distances coercively [Thrun, 2018] <doi:10.1007/978-3-658-20540-9>. This could lead to a misleading interpretation of the underlying structures [Thrun, 2018]. By means of the 3D topographic map the generalized Umatrix is able to depict errors of these two-dimensional scatter plots. The package is derived from the book of Thrun, M.C.: "Projection Based Clustering through Self-Organization and Swarm Intelligence" (2018) <doi:10.1007/978-3-658-20540-9> and the main algorithm called simplified self-organizing map for dimensionality reduction methods is published in <doi:10.1016/j.mex.2020.101093>.
| Version: | 1.3.1 | 
| Depends: | R (≥ 3.0) | 
| Imports: | Rcpp (≥ 1.0.8), RcppParallel (≥ 5.1.4), ggplot2 | 
| LinkingTo: | Rcpp, RcppArmadillo, RcppParallel | 
| Suggests: | DataVisualizations, rgl, grid, mgcv, png, reshape2, fields, ABCanalysis, plotly, deldir, methods, knitr (≥ 1.12), rmarkdown (≥ 0.9) | 
| Published: | 2025-01-29 | 
| DOI: | 10.32614/CRAN.package.GeneralizedUmatrix | 
| Author: | Michael Thrun  [aut, cre, cph],
  Felix Pape [ctb, ctr],
  Tim Schreier [ctb, ctr],
  Luis Winckelman [ctb, ctr],
  Quirin Stier  [ctb, ctr],
  Alfred Ultsch [ths] | 
| Maintainer: | Michael Thrun  <m.thrun at gmx.net> | 
| BugReports: | https://github.com/Mthrun/GeneralizedUmatrix/issues | 
| License: | GPL-3 | 
| URL: | https://www.deepbionics.org | 
| NeedsCompilation: | yes | 
| SystemRequirements: | GNU make, pandoc (>=1.12.3, needed for vignettes) | 
| Citation: | GeneralizedUmatrix citation info | 
| Materials: | README | 
| CRAN checks: | GeneralizedUmatrix results |