More information on this package can be found on CRAN here.
This is a forked repo from dendsort version 0.3.3, which were made given updates to CRAN dependencies. The original sourcecode by the author Ryo Sakai can be found on Bitbucket here. The only changes made to this version were related to the vignettes.
For more information on the method, please the F1000 article here:
Sakai R, Winand R, Verbeiren T et al.
dendsort: modular leaf ordering methods for dendrogram representations in R.
F1000Research 2014, 3:177 (https://doi.org/10.12688/f1000research.4784.1)