The rflexscan package provides functions and classes to analyze spatial count data using the flexible spatial scan statistic developed by Tango and Takahashi (2005) on R. The original FleXScan software developed by Takahashi et al. is also available at https://sites.google.com/site/flexscansoftware/home.

Project page: https://tkhrotn.github.io/rflexscan/

CRAN: https://cran.r-project.org/package=rflexscan

# Install from CRAN
install.packages("rflexscan")

# Install development version from GitHub:
install.packages("devtools")
devtools::install_github("tkhrotn/rflexscan")

• Tango T. and Takahashi K. (2005). A flexibly shaped spatial scan statistic for detecting clusters, International Journal of Health Geographics 4:11.
• Takahashi K, Yokoyama T and Tango T. (2010). FleXScan v3.1: Software for the Flexible Scan Statistic. National Institute of Public Health, Japan.