R Observatory: Metrics for FWDselect version 2.1.1

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

FWDselect

2.1.1

Selecting Variables in Regression Models

0packages depend

3.4Kdownloads / year

–test coverage

13/13checks pass

Overview

About

Maintained by Marta SesteloFirst published 2012-07-098 releasesCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗

A simple method to select the best model or best subset of variables using different types of data (binary, Gaussian or Poisson) and applying it in different contexts (parametric or non-parametric). Implemented methodology described in: M. Sestelo, N. M. Villanueva, L. Meira-Machado and J. Roca-Pardiñas (2016). FWDselect: an R package for variable selection in regression models. The R Journal, 8 (1), 132-148. doi:10.32614/RJ-2016-009.

Install

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

install.packages("FWDselect", 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("sestelo/fwdselect")

Development version from sestelo/fwdselect. 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-fwdselect

Fast Ubuntu binaries via r2u (no compilation). The cranapt setup runs once and is skipped when it is already enabled.

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-FWDselect

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-FWDselect

RPMs auto-built from CRAN on openSUSE OBS (Tumbleweed).

Health

CRAN checks

13OK

Slowest check: 1.9 min · r-oldrel-macos-x86_64

Code health

None

Tests · ratio 0.00

not tracked

Coverage

100%

Documentation · exports

5

Dependencies · direct

Check history

OK2026-08-05
13 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
NOTE2026-08-01
12 OK · 1 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
OK2026-03-10
14 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE

Documentation

READMENoVignettesNopkgdown siteNoNEWSYes · 67% structuredCode of conductNoContributing guideNo

Examples that run: 100%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 100%
References docs: 30%

Downloads

3.4K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #8,962 · ~9/day · ~284/mo

Releases R versions

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Repository

GitHub ↗ sestelo/fwdselect

2Stars

1Forks

1Open issues

0Open PRs

2Releases

53Commits

2Contributors

rfeature-selectionfeature-engineeringvariable-selectionvariable-importanceregresssionmachine-learning-algorithmsnonparametric

53 commits · Last activity 2026-04-22

Stars over time

2024-05-22 · 22026-07-07 · 2

Repository practices

Upstream repositoryBeta

1 development-tooling and community-health practice detected across 1 family in the upstream repository

Checks run against github.com/sestelo/fwdselect on 2026-08-16.

Lint, format, editor (1)

RStudio project

How this is detected·Detection ruleset v1 (2026-07-18)

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

1 external dependency (excludes base and recommended)

Depends (1)

R >= 3.1.0

Imports (5)

cvToolsmgcvparallelgraphicsstats

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (0)

none

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

0direct

0indirect

Nothing depends on this yet.

Code & Tests

Datasets

People & History

People (3)

Maintainer (1)

Marta Sestelo

Author, Maintainer, Copyright holder

Authors (3)

Marta Sestelo

Author, Maintainer, Copyright holder

Nora M. Villanueva

Author, Copyright holder

Javier Roca-Pardinas

Author

Copyright holders (2)

Marta Sestelo

Author, Maintainer, Copyright holder

Nora M. Villanueva

Author, Copyright holder

Package Timeline

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R 2.15.0 released · 2012-03-30

Package metadata

First published: 2012-07-09
Total releases: 8 / 14 yrs
License: MIT + file LICENSE OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 3.1.0
Bundled data: 106 KB / 3 files
Download size: 124 KB
Installed size: not tracked yet
With dependencies: not tracked yet

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citation("FWDselect")

Format

Sestelo, M., M. Villanueva, N., & Roca-Pardinas, J. (2026). FWDselect: Selecting Variables in Regression Models (Version 2.1.1) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.FWDselect

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Format

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Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for FWDselect version 2.1.1 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-08-18. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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