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+# Wind: weighted indexes for clustering evaluation
+
+`Wind` is an R package designed to compute weighted normalized mutual information (wNMI) and weighted Rand index (wRI) to evaluate the clustering results by comparing a clustering output with a reference which has a hierarchical structure.
+
+
+## Installation
+---------------
+
+Run following commands in R :
+
+```
+library(devtools)
+install_github("haowulab/Wind", build_opts = c("--no-resave-data"))
+```
+
+The second line might take a little time and install some extra packages for building the package vignette.
+
+For detailed information about the package, please refer to the package vignette: 
+
+```
+library(Wind)
+vignette("Wind")
+```
+