aphantasiaCognitiveClustering is a data analysis project disguised as an R package. It contains the code and data to reproduce the analyses presented in the paper “Unsupervised clustering reveals spatial and verbal cognitive profiles in aphantasia and typical imagery” by Delem et al. (2025, in review). You can read the preprint here. All study materials are available in this OSF project, while the reproducible manuscript and complete analyses can be found in the package documentation online.
The R package structure was chosen to facilitate the sharing of the code and data with the scientific community, and to make it easy to reproduce the analyses. It is not intended to be a general-purpose package, but rather a collection of functions and data specific to this study (although many functions are reusable in their own right). The package development workflow (see this reference book) is also a good way to ensure that the code is well-documented and tested, which is important for reproducibility in scientific research.
Installation
You can install the development version of aphantasiaCognitiveClustering from GitHub with:
# install.packages("pak")
pak::pak("m-delem/aphantasiaCognitiveClustering")Alternatively, you can clone the repository, launch the R project in RStudio by opening the aphantasiaCognitiveClustering.Rproj file and run the following command:
devtools::load_all()
#> ℹ Loading aphantasiaCognitiveClustering
#> Welcome to aphantasiaCognitiveClustering.
#> This is actually a data analysis project 'disguised' as a package.
#> It contains the code and data to reproduce the analyses presented
#> in an article.
#> See https://osf.io/7vsx6/ for the complete study materials.… Which will load the package and make all its functions and data available in your R session.