R Observatory: Metrics for FDboost version 1.1-4

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

FDboost

1.1-4Package record

Boosting Functional Regression Models

0packages dependsuggested by 4

42.4Kdownloads / year

35.1%test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by David RuegamerCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Issues ↗

Regression models for functional data, i.e., scalar-on-function, function-on-scalar and function-on-function regression models, are fitted by a component-wise gradient boosting algorithm. For a manual on how to use 'FDboost', see Brockhaus, Ruegamer, Greven (2017) doi:10.18637/jss.v094.i10.

Changes in 1.1-4

Bug fixes

Suppressed deprecation warnings from refund::pffrSim() in examples to keep checks clean with recent refund versions.
Stabilized tests/general_tests.R by forcing serial evaluation (mc.cores = 1) to avoid parallel applyFolds() crashes on some check platforms.

From NEWS.md in the release

Install

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

install.packages("FDboost", 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("boost-R/FDboost")

Development version from boost-R/FDboost. 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-fdboost

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-FDboost

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-FDboost

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

CRAN check page ↗

Slowest check: 5.9 min · r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

Status changes

OK13 OK2026-08-05
NOTE12 OK, 1 NOTE2026-08-01
OK13 OK2026-07-24
ERROR12 OK, 1 ERROR2026-07-23
OK13 OK2026-06-09

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NOTE12 OK, 1 NOTE2026-06-08
OK14 OK2026-03-28
WARNING10 OK, 4 WARNING2026-03-25
ERROR13 OK, 1 ERROR2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 1.1-4

README· In the repository, left out of the releaseVignettesYes · 4 · dynamicNEWSYes · 100% structured · mentions 1.1-4Citation fileYes · cites a publication

Cites a JSS article

Help pages: 46includes a package overview page
Examples that run: 92%22 run in a plain check · 2 only when donttest examples are enabled (R CMD check --as-cran)
Exported functions with examples: 67%
Documented parameters: 97%
Return-value docs: 100%
Help pages citing references: 28%

Vignettes (4)

How these are measured

Downloads

42.4K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #2,451 · ~116/day · ~3.5K/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

2.2K30 days

6.6K90 days

42.4K1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on191 r2u2 autocran1.7K conda_forge186 c2d4u

How downloads are counted

Repository

boost-r/fdboost ↗Organization: boost-R

21Stars

7Forks

4Open issues

0Open PRs

0Releases

335Commits

10Commit identities

cranboosting-algorithmsboostingfunction-on-function-regressionscalar-on-function-regressionfunction-on-scalar-regressionmachine-learningvariable-selection

335 commits · Last activity 2026-04-12 · 0% stars, 30d

Responsiveness

How these are sampled

PRs merged (all time): 100%
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed issues: 12
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed PRs: 1

Stars over time

2025-06-25 · 202026-07-07 · 21

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

5 development-tooling and community-health practices detected across 4 families in the upstream repository

Checks run against github.com/boost-r/fdboost on 2026-10-18.

Continuous integration (2)

GitHub ActionsR CMD check workflow

The R CMD check workflow runs on Linux, macOS and Windows, and on R-devel

Docs source (1)

pkgdown

CRAN release process (1)

cran-comments.md

Lint, format, editor (1)

RStudio project

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

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

12 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing FDboost adds 14 packages (9 with compiled code, 12 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: partykit 2.1 MB, mboost 2.0 MB, gamboostLSS 1.5 MB.

Depends (2)

R >= 3.5.0mboost

Imports (11)

gamboostLSSgraphicsgrDevicesMASSMatrixmethodsmgcvstabsstatsutilszoo

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (8)

fda fields ggplot2 knitr mapdata maps refund testthat

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

0direct

0indirect

Suggested by 4

Suggests, most downloaded first

mlr mlr3fda SelectBoost.FDA runDRT

How these are counted

Code & Tests

Datasets

People & History

People (5)

David Ruegamer

Author, Maintainer since 1.0-0 (2020) · added in 0.1-0

Sarah Brockhaus

Author

Almond Stoecker

Author · added in 0.3-3

with contributions by many others (see inst/CONTRIBUTIONS)

Contributor · added in 0.1-0

Torsten Hothorn

Contributor · added in 0.1-0

Previously maintained by Sarah Brockhaus (0.0-5 to 0.3-3).

Releases (14)

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R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
1.1-4Latest
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2026-03-24 · current release · diff ↗
1.1-3
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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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2023-08-12 · diff ↗
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R 4.3.0 released · 2023-04-21
unarchivedReturned to CRAN
2022-09-27
1.1-1
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archivedRemoved from CRAN
2022-09-04
issues were not corrected in time
unarchivedReturned to CRAN
2022-07-13
1.1-0
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2022-07-13 · diff ↗ ·
added 2 exports
clr, factorize
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R 4.2.0 released · 2022-04-22
archivedRemoved from CRAN
2022-03-20
requires archived package 'gamboostLSS'
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R 4.1.0 released · 2021-05-18
unarchivedReturned to CRAN
2020-09-08

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1.0-0
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2020-09-08 · diff ↗
archivedRemoved from CRAN
2020-08-12
problems were not corrected in time Use of LINPACK in un-exercised code
unarchivedReturned to CRAN
2020-06-21
0.3-3
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2020-06-21 · diff ↗
archivedRemoved from CRAN
2020-05-29
check problems were not corrected in time
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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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2018-05-10 · diff ↗
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R 3.5.0 released · 2018-04-23
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2017-05-31 · diff ↗ ·
added 2 exports
bootstrapCI, subset_hmatrix
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R 3.4.0 released · 2017-04-21
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2016-06-20 · diff ↗ ·
added 5 exports
%A%, %A0%, %Xa0%, applyFolds, reweightData
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R 3.3.0 released · 2016-05-03
0.1-0
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2016-03-14 · diff ↗ ·
added 15 exports
%Xc%, FDboostLSS, bfpc, bhistx, getArgvals, getArgvalsLab, getId, getIdLab, getTime, getTimeLab, getX, getXLab, hmatrix, is.hmatrix, wide2long
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R 3.2.0 released · 2015-04-16
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2015-02-16 · diff ↗
0.0-5
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2014-04-22
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R 3.1.0 released · 2014-04-10

Package metadata

First published: 2014-04-22
Total releases: 14 / 12 yrs
License: GPL-2 OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 3.5.0
Bundled data: 1.3 MB / 5 files
Download size: 2.9 MB

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Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("FDboost")

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Format

APA

Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for FDboost version 1.1-4 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-22. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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