Installation instructions for hicream

AWK

hicream requires the awk command to be installed on your system. If you are using a Unix-based system, awk is likely already installed. If you are using Windows a cywgin version of awk is searched for by the package. You can install awk by downloading the Gawk package from the GNU website: https://www.gnu.org/software/gawk/.

More about AWK: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AWK

Python dependencies

hicream requires the python command to be installed on your system (>=3.9). Additional Python packages (scikit-learn, kneebow, numpy, and pandas) are also required.

More about used Python packages:

• scikit-learn: https://scikit-learn.org/stable/
• kneebow: https://pypi.org/project/kneebow/
• pandas: https://pandas.pydata.org/

To install Python modules, please check “Installing Python modules” in Python documentation. With pip:

pip install scikit-learn
pip install kneebow
pip install pandas
pip install numpy

Session information

sessionInfo()

## R version 4.5.1 (2025-06-13)
## Platform: x86_64-pc-linux-gnu
## Running under: Ubuntu 24.04.2 LTS
## 
## Matrix products: default
## BLAS:   /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/openblas-pthread/libblas.so.3 
## LAPACK: /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/openblas-pthread/libopenblasp-r0.3.26.so;  LAPACK version 3.12.0
## 
## locale:
##  [1] LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8       LC_NUMERIC=C              
##  [3] LC_TIME=fr_FR.UTF-8        LC_COLLATE=C              
##  [5] LC_MONETARY=fr_FR.UTF-8    LC_MESSAGES=en_US.UTF-8   
##  [7] LC_PAPER=fr_FR.UTF-8       LC_NAME=C                 
##  [9] LC_ADDRESS=C               LC_TELEPHONE=C            
## [11] LC_MEASUREMENT=fr_FR.UTF-8 LC_IDENTIFICATION=C       
## 
## time zone: Europe/Paris
## tzcode source: system (glibc)
## 
## attached base packages:
## [1] stats     graphics  grDevices utils     datasets  methods   base     
## 
## loaded via a namespace (and not attached):
##  [1] digest_0.6.37     R6_2.6.1          fastmap_1.2.0     xfun_0.52        
##  [5] cachem_1.1.0      knitr_1.50        htmltools_0.5.8.1 rmarkdown_2.29   
##  [9] lifecycle_1.0.4   cli_3.6.5         sass_0.4.10       jquerylib_0.1.4  
## [13] compiler_4.5.1    tools_4.5.1       evaluate_1.0.4    bslib_0.9.0      
## [17] yaml_2.3.10       rlang_1.1.6       jsonlite_2.0.0