R Observatory: Metrics for CoxBoost version 1.5.2

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

CoxBoost

1.5.2Package record

Cox Models by Likelihood Based Boosting for a Single Survival Endpoint or Competing Risks

1packages dependsuggested by 3

9.6Kdownloads / year

–test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by John ZobolasCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Issues ↗

Provides routines for fitting Cox models by likelihood based boosting for single event survival data with right censoring or in the presence of competing risks. The methodology is described in Binder and Schumacher (2008) doi:10.1186/1471-2105-9-14 and Binder et al. (2009) doi:10.1093/bioinformatics/btp088.

Changes in 1.5.2

Competing risks CIF prediction improvements:
Fixed bug where CIF predictions where descreasing for some time points.

Predictions now accumulate non-negative event-time probability increments instead of

interpolating hazards and rescaling accumulated CIFs at each time point.

Predictions retain matrix dimensions for a single observation or time point and support prediction before the first event.

From NEWS.md in the release

Install

R (CRAN)pak (dev)Ubuntu (r2u)Fedora (COPR)openSUSE (OBS)

install.packages("CoxBoost", repos = "https://cloud.r-project.org/")

Installs the current CRAN release. Prebuilt binaries on Windows and macOS.

if (!requireNamespace("pak", quietly = TRUE))
  install.packages("pak", repos = "https://cloud.r-project.org/")
pak::pak("binderh/CoxBoost")

Development version from binderh/CoxBoost. Installs pak first if it is not already available.

Release

# enable cranapt (r2u) if it is not already set up, then install
grep -rqs r2u.stat.illinois.edu /etc/apt/sources.list /etc/apt/sources.list.d/ \
  || curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/eddelbuettel/r2u/master/inst/scripts/add_cranapt_noble.sh | sudo bash
sudo apt install -y r-cran-coxboost

Fast Ubuntu binaries via r2u (no compilation). The cranapt setup runs once and is skipped when it is already enabled. We list this channel from recorded r2u download activity rather than from a live index of the repository, so treat it as last known rather than guaranteed.

bspm (used by r2u) also needs make: sudo apt install make

# enable the iucar/cran COPR if it is not already present, then install
ls /etc/yum.repos.d/*iucar*cran*.repo >/dev/null 2>&1 \
  || sudo dnf copr enable -y iucar/cran
sudo dnf install -y R-CRAN-CoxBoost

RPMs from the iucar/cran COPR, rebuilt from CRAN.

For install.packages() integration in R, also: sudo dnf install R-CoprManager

# add the autoCRAN OBS repo (Tumbleweed) if it is missing, then install
zypper -q lr | grep -qi autoCRAN \
  || sudo zypper addrepo https://download.opensuse.org/repositories/devel:/languages:/R:/autoCRAN/openSUSE_Tumbleweed/devel:languages:R:autoCRAN.repo
sudo zypper install -y R-CoxBoost

RPMs auto-built from CRAN on openSUSE OBS (Tumbleweed). We list this channel from recorded autoCRAN download activity rather than from a live index of the repository, so treat it as last known rather than guaranteed.

Health

CRAN checks

13OK

Additional issues

donttest

CRAN check page ↗

Slowest check: 2.7 min · r-devel-windows-x86_64

Status changes

OK13 OK2026-08-05
NOTE12 OK, 1 NOTE2026-08-01
OK14 OK2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 1.5.2

READMEYes · 707 wordsVignettesNoNEWSYes · 100% structured · mentions 1.5.2Citation fileYes · cites a publicationWebsitenot declared in DESCRIPTION

Help pages: 15includes a package overview page
Examples that run: 50%4 run in a plain check · 4 only when donttest examples are enabled (R CMD check --as-cran)
Exported functions with examples: 75%
Documented parameters: 95%
Return-value docs: 100%
Help pages citing references: 47%

How these are measured

Downloads

9.6K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #3,597 · ~26/day · ~796/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

1.2K30 days

2.8K90 days

9.6K1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on337 r2u13 autocran3.9K conda_forge139 c2d4u

How downloads are counted

Repository

binderh/coxboost ↗Account: binderh

11Stars

5Forks

0Open issues

0Open PRs

3Releases

77Commits

6Commit identities

77 commits · Last activity 2026-09-24 · Default branch at 1.5.2.9000, ahead of CRAN 1.5.2 (checked 2026-10-18)

Responsiveness

How these are sampled

PRs merged (all time): 100%
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed issues: 1,766
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed PRs: 23

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

8 development-tooling and community-health practices detected across 6 families in the upstream repository

Checks run against github.com/binderh/coxboost on 2026-10-18.

Continuous integration (2)

GitHub ActionsR CMD check workflow

The R CMD check workflow runs on Linux

Governance and community (2)

Code of conductContributing guide

Docs source (1)

README.Rmd

CRAN release process (1)

cran-comments.md

Show all practicesHide 2 practices

Automation and maintenance (1)

Dependabot

Lint, format, editor (1)

RStudio project

How this is detected·Detection ruleset v3 (2026-09-26)

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

2 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing CoxBoost adds no packages beyond those that come with R.

Depends (1)

R >= 3.6.0

Imports (2)

Matrixsurvival

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (3)

parallelprodlim snowfall

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

1direct

0indirect

Imports 1

Suggested by 3

Depends, Imports or LinkingTo, most downloaded first

survalis

Suggests, most downloaded first

peperr SuperSurv AutoMLR

How these are counted

Code & Tests

People & History

People (2)

John Zobolas

Maintainer since 1.5.1 (2025), Author · added in 1.5.1

Harald Binder

Author

Previously maintained by Harald Binder (1.0 to 1.4).

Releases (8)

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1.5.2Latest
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1.5.1
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2025-12-11 · diff ↗ ·
removed 1 export
optimStepSizeFactor

added 3 exports
resample.CoxBoost, stabtrajec, weightfreqmap
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R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11
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R 4.4.0 released · 2024-04-24
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R 4.3.0 released · 2023-04-21
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R 4.2.0 released · 2022-04-22
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R 4.1.0 released · 2021-05-18
archivedRemoved from CRAN
2020-11-11
check problems were not corrected despite reminders
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R 4.0.0 released · 2020-04-24
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R 3.6.0 released · 2019-04-26
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R 3.5.0 released · 2018-04-23
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R 3.4.0 released · 2017-04-21
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R 3.3.0 released · 2016-05-03
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R 3.2.0 released · 2015-04-16

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R 3.1.0 released · 2014-04-10
1.4
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2013-05-10 · diff ↗ ·
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R 3.0.0 released · 2013-04-03
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R 2.15.0 released · 2012-03-30
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R 2.14.0 released · 2011-10-31
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R 2.8.0 released · 2008-10-20
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R 2.7.0 released · 2008-04-22
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2008-01-11
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R 2.6.0 released · 2007-10-03

Package metadata

First published: 2008-01-11
Total releases: 8 / 18 yrs
License: MIT + file LICENSE OSI · relicensed from GPL (>= 2) in 1.5.1
Minimum R: ≥ 3.6.0
Download size: 113 KB

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' entry:

citation("CoxBoost")

The package provides a citation file, so citation() returns the authors' own entry.

It points to 10.1186/1471-2105-9-14, 10.1093/bioinformatics/btp088.

Cite the R Observatory

For a number measured here: a download total, a coverage figure, an archival date.

Format

APA

Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for CoxBoost version 1.5.2 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-21. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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