Model Based Clustering for Spherical Data Using Elliptically Symmetric Distributions R package sphereclust version 1.0 Model based clustering with spherical data using mixtures of elliptically symmetric distributions, namely mixtures of spherical elliptically symmetric projected Cauchy (SESPC) or mixtures of elliptically symmetric angular Gaussian (ESAG) distributions. The relevant paper is: Perdikis T., Alharbi N. and Tsagris M. (2026). <doi:10.48550/arXiv.2605.27496>. Software Depends: R (>= 4.0) Imports: Directional, graphics, grDevices, mixture, parallel, rangen, rgl, Rfast, stats Suggests: Rfast2 Michail Tsagris <mtsagris@uoc.gr> Comprehensive R Archive Network (CRAN) Michail Tsagris [aut, cre], Theodoros Perdikis [ctb] GPL (>= 2) 2026-06-01 application/tgz https://CRAN.R-project.org/package=sphereclust doi:10.32614/CRAN.package.sphereclust