R Observatory: Metrics for absorber version 1.0

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

absorber

1.0Package record

Variable Selection in Nonparametric Models using B-Splines

0packages depend

3.3Kdownloads / year

–test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Mary E. SavinoCRAN page ↗

A variable selection method using B-Splines in multivariate nOnparametric Regression models Based on partial dErivatives Regularization (ABSORBER) implements a novel variable selection method in a nonlinear multivariate model using B-splines. For further details we refer the reader to the paper Savino, M. E. and Lévy-Leduc, C. (2024), https://hal.science/hal-04434820.

Install

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

install.packages("absorber", 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-absorber

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-absorber

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-absorber

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: 2.8 min · r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

Status changes

OK13 OK2026-08-05
NOTE12 OK, 1 NOTE2026-08-01
OK13 OK2026-06-09
ERROR12 OK, 1 ERROR2026-06-08
OK14 OK2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 1.0

READMENoVignettesYes · 1 · dynamicNEWSNoCitation fileNoWebsitenot declared in DESCRIPTION

Help pages: 5includes a package overview page
Examples that run: 100%2 run in a plain check
Exported functions with examples: 100%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 100%
Help pages citing references: 20%

Vignettes (1)

absorber package PDF

How these are measured

Downloads

3.3K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #10,270 · ~9/day · ~272/mo

Releases R versions

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34030 days

98290 days

3.3K1 year

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Also on95 r2u19 autocran

How downloads are counted

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

6 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing absorber adds 53 packages (35 with compiled code, 50 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: stringi 11 MB, ggplot2 6.0 MB, fds 3.7 MB.

Depends (5)

R >= 3.5.0Matrixsparsegl fdaparallel

Imports (3)

ggplot2MASSirlba

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (2)

knitr markdown

Enhances (0)

none

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Reverse dependencies

0direct

0indirect

Nothing depends on this yet.

How these are counted

Code & Tests

Datasets

People & History

People (2)

Mary E. Savino

Author, Maintainer since 1.0 (2024)

Celine Levy-Leduc

Contributor

Releases (1)

R
R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
R
R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11
R
R 4.4.0 released · 2024-04-24
1.0Latest
record
2024-02-23 · current release
R
R 4.3.0 released · 2023-04-21

Package metadata

First published: 2024-02-23
Total releases: 1 / 2 yrs
License: GPL-2 OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 3.5.0
Bundled data: 27 KB / 2 files
Download size: 65 KB

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("absorber")

Format

Savino, M. E., & Levy-Leduc, C. (2024). absorber: Variable Selection in Nonparametric Models using B-Splines (Version 1.0) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.absorber

This package has no citation file, so citation() returns this entry built from DESCRIPTION.

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Format

APA

Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for absorber version 1.0 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-20. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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