deadwood: Outlier Detection via Trimming of Mutual Reachability Minimum Spanning Trees
Implements an anomaly detection algorithm based on mutual reachability minimum spanning trees: 'deadwood' trims protruding tree segments and marks small debris as outliers; see Gagolewski (2026) <https://deadwood.gagolewski.com/>. More precisely, the use of a mutual reachability distance pulls peripheral points farther away from each other. Tree edges with weights beyond the detected elbow point are removed. All the resulting connected components whose sizes are smaller than a given threshold are deemed anomalous. The 'Python' version of 'deadwood' is available via 'PyPI'.
| Version: | 0.9.0-2 |
| Imports: | Rcpp, quitefastmst |
| LinkingTo: | Rcpp |
| Suggests: | datasets |
| Published: | 2026-02-20 |
| DOI: | 10.32614/CRAN.package.deadwood (may not be active yet) |
| Author: | Marek Gagolewski 
[aut, cre, cph] |
| Maintainer: | Marek Gagolewski <marek at gagolewski.com> |
| BugReports: | https://github.com/gagolews/deadwood/issues |
| License: | AGPL-3 |
| URL: | https://deadwood.gagolewski.com/, https://github.com/gagolews/deadwood |
| NeedsCompilation: | yes |
| SystemRequirements: | OpenMP |
| Materials: | NEWS |
| CRAN checks: | deadwood results [issues need fixing before 2026-03-06] |
Documentation:
| Reference manual: | deadwood.html , deadwood.pdf |
Downloads:
| Package source: | deadwood_0.9.0-2.tar.gz |
| Windows binaries: | r-devel: not available, r-release: not available, r-oldrel: not available |
| macOS binaries: | r-release (arm64): not available, r-oldrel (arm64): not available, r-release (x86_64): not available, r-oldrel (x86_64): not available |
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