R Observatory: Metrics for FlexGAM version 0.7.2

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

FlexGAM

0.7.2Package record

Generalized Additive Models with Flexible Response Functions

0packages depend

2.4Kdownloads / year

–test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Elmar SpiegelCRAN page ↗

Standard generalized additive models assume a response function, which induces an assumption on the shape of the distribution of the response. However, miss-specifying the response function results in biased estimates. Therefore in Spiegel et al. (2017) doi:10.1007/s11222-017-9799-6 we propose to estimate the response function jointly with the covariate effects. This package provides the underlying functions to estimate these generalized additive models with flexible response functions. The estimation is based on an iterative algorithm. In the outer loop the response function is estimated, while in the inner loop the covariate effects are determined. For the response function a strictly monotone P-spline is used while the covariate effects are estimated based on a modified Fisher-Scoring algorithm. Overall the estimation relies on the 'mgcv'-package.

Changes in 0.7.2

Update due to warning of CRAN
Removed exportClasses()

From NEWS.md in the release

Install

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

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

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

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-flexgam

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-FlexGAM

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-FlexGAM

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: 1.9 min · r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

Status changes

OK13 OK2026-08-05
NOTE12 OK, 1 NOTE2026-08-01
OK12 OK2026-04-25
NOTE11 OK, 3 NOTE2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 0.7.2

READMENoVignettesNoNEWSYes · 100% structured · mentions 0.7.2Citation fileNoWebsitenot declared in DESCRIPTION

Help pages: 8
Examples that run: 88%7 run in a plain check · 1 hold no code
Exported functions with examples: 100%
Documented parameters: 93%
Return-value docs: 100%
Help pages citing references: 100%

How these are measured

Downloads

2.4K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #18,855 · ~7/day · ~201/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

30830 days

69490 days

2.4K1 year

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How downloads are counted

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

1 external dependency (excludes base and recommended)

Installing FlexGAM adds 1 package (1 with compiled code, 188 KB of source tarballs). Heaviest: scam 188 KB.

Depends (2)

R >= 3.4.0mgcv

Imports (6)

graphicsMASSMatrixscamsplinesstats

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (0)

none

Enhances (0)

none

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Reverse dependencies

0direct

0indirect

Nothing depends on this yet.

How these are counted

Code & Tests

People & History

People (1)

Elmar Spiegel

Author, Maintainer since 0.7.0 (2018)

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Package metadata

First published: 2018-02-21
Total releases: 2 / 8 yrs
License: GPL-2 OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 3.4.0
Download size: 23 KB

Cite

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citation("FlexGAM")

Format

Spiegel, E. (2020). FlexGAM: Generalized Additive Models with Flexible Response Functions (Version 0.7.2) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.FlexGAM

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Format

APA

Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for FlexGAM version 0.7.2 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-22. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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