R Observatory: Metrics for SALES version 1.0.2

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

SALES

The (Adaptive) Elastic Net and Lasso Penalized Sparse Asymmetric Least Squares (SALES) and Coupled Sparse Asymmetric Least Squares (COSALES) using Coordinate Descent and Proximal Gradient Algorithms

0packages depend

2.3Kdownloads / year

–test coverage

11/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Yuwen GuCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗

A coordinate descent algorithm for computing the solution paths of the sparse and coupled sparse asymmetric least squares, including the (adaptive) elastic net and Lasso penalized SALES and COSALES regressions.

Install

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

install.packages("SALES", 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("knightgu/SALES")

Development version from knightgu/SALES. 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-sales

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-SALES

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-SALES

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

2NOTE11OK

Check messages

NOTECRAN incoming feasibilityr-devel-linux-x86_64-debian-clang, r-devel-linux-x86_64-debian-gcc

Maintainer: ‘Yuwen Gu <yuwen.gu@uconn.edu>’

No Authors@R field in DESCRIPTION.
Please add one, modifying
  Authors@R: c(person(given = "Yuwen",
                      family = "Gu",
                      role = c("aut", "cre"),
                      email = "yuwen.gu@uconn.edu"),
               person(given = "Hui",
                      family = "Zou",
                      role = "aut",
                      email = "zouxx019@umn.edu"))
as necessary.

CRAN check page ↗

Slowest check: 2.6 min · r-devel-windows-x86_64

Status changes

NOTE11 OK, 2 NOTENow
NOTE12 OK, 2 NOTE2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 1.0.2

READMENoVignettesNoNEWSNoCitation fileNoWebsitenot declared in DESCRIPTION

Help pages: 20
Examples that run: 100%17 run in a plain check
Exported functions with examples: 67%
Documented parameters: 93%
Return-value docs: 100%
Help pages citing references: 10%

How these are measured

Downloads

2.3K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #21,578 · ~6/day · ~195/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

24130 days

62390 days

2.3K1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on342 r2u2 autocran

How downloads are counted

Repository

knightgu/sales ↗Account: knightgu

2Stars

1Forks

0Open issues

0Open PRs

0Releases

31Commits

1Commit identities

31 commits · Last activity 2022-08-15

Responsiveness

not measured

Stars over time

2022-08-16 · 22026-07-07 · 2

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

2 development-tooling and community-health practices detected across 2 families in the upstream repository

Checks run against github.com/knightgu/sales on 2026-10-25.

Docs source (1)

README.Rmd

CRAN release process (1)

cran-comments.md

How this is detected·Detection ruleset v4 (2026-10-20)

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

1 external dependency (excludes base and recommended)

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

Depends (0)

none

Imports (5)

grDevicesgraphicsstatsmethodsMatrix

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (1)

testthat

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

0direct

0indirect

Nothing depends on this yet.

How these are counted

Code & Tests

People & History

People (from the free-text Author field) (2)

Yuwen Gu

Hui Zou

Maintainer since 1.0.0 (2016)

Releases (2)

Pick two releases to compare their code metrics.

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R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
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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
1.0.2Latest
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2022-08-15 · current release · diff ↗ ·
added 2 exports
coef, predict
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R 4.2.0 released · 2022-04-22
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R 4.1.0 released · 2021-05-18
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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
1.0.0
record
2016-01-12
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R 3.2.0 released · 2015-04-16

Package metadata

First published: 2016-01-12
Total releases: 2 / 10 yrs
License: GPL (>= 2) OSI
Download size: 34 KB

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("SALES")

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 SALES version 1.0.2 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-26. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

From data release v2026-10-26, which the citation names so these numbers can be found later. More on citing and the projects behind them.

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