Dcurvature - Discrete Curvature with 'shiny' Explorer
Implements discrete curvature estimation for ordered
planar point sequences using circumcenter geometry on
consecutive triplets, exposed through compiled C plus plus
(C++) code via 'Rcpp' for speed and numerical robustness. The
package is useful for objective elbow detection in multivariate
workflows, especially principal component analysis (PCA), where
selecting the number of retained components can be subjective.
It provides a 'shiny' interface that supports upload of raw
datasets or explained-variance tables, computes
Kaiser-Meyer-Olkin (KMO) sampling-adequacy diagnostics,
evaluates individual and cumulative variance curves, and
reports curvature- based decision rules (m* and m**) with
visual summaries for reproducible component-selection
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