R Observatory: Metrics for acepack version 1.6.3

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

acepack

1.6.3

ACE and AVAS for Selecting Multiple Regression Transformations

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101.9Kdownloads / year

61.0%test coverage

13/13checks pass

Overview

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Maintained by Shawn GarbettFirst published 1998-03-2520 releasesCRAN page ↗

Two nonparametric methods for multiple regression transform selection are provided. The first, Alternating Conditional Expectations (ACE), is an algorithm to find the fixed point of maximal correlation, i.e. it finds a set of transformed response variables that maximizes R^2 using smoothing functions [see Breiman, L., and J.H. Friedman. 1985. "Estimating Optimal Transformations for Multiple Regression and Correlation". Journal of the American Statistical Association. 80:580-598. doi:10.1080/01621459.1985.10478157]. Also included is the Additivity Variance Stabilization (AVAS) method which works better than ACE when correlation is low [see Tibshirani, R. 1986. "Estimating Transformations for Regression via Additivity and Variance Stabilization". Journal of the American Statistical Association. 83:394-405. doi:10.1080/01621459.1988.10478610]. A good introduction to these two methods is in chapter 16 of Frank Harrell's "Regression Modeling Strategies" in the Springer Series in Statistics. A permutation independence test is included from [Holzmann, H., Klar, B. 2025. "Lancaster correlation - a new dependence measure linked to maximum correlation". Scandinavian Journal of Statistics. 52(1):145-169 doi:10.1111/sjos.12733].

Latest changes · 1.6.3

Install

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

install.packages("acepack", 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-acepack

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-acepack

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-acepack

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

Health

CRAN checks

13OK

Slowest check: 2.3 min · r-devel-windows-x86_64

Code health

Yes

Tests · ratio 0.20

61.0%

Coverage · measured lines

100%

Documentation · exports

0

Dependencies · direct

Check history

OK2026-08-05
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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

READMEYes · 217 wordsVignettesNopkgdown siteNoNEWSYes · 100% structuredCode of conductNoContributing guideNo

Examples that run: 100%
Documented parameters: 38%
Return-value docs: 75%
References docs: 75%

Downloads

101.9K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #1,247 · ~279/day · ~8.5K/mo

Releases R versions

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26.5K90 days

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Dependencies

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People & History

People (8)

Maintainer (1)

Shawn Garbett

Maintainer, Author · added in 1.4.0

Authors (8)

Shawn Garbett

Maintainer, Author · added in 1.4.0

Jonathan Baron

Author · added in 1.4.0

Scott Chasalow

Author · added in 1.6.1

Jerome Friedman

Author

Bernhard Klar

Author · added in 1.6.1

Thomas Lumley

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Phil Spector

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Robert Tibshirani

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Package metadata

First published: 1998-03-25
Total releases: 20 / 28 yrs
License: MIT + file LICENSE OSI
Download size: 34 KB
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With dependencies: not tracked yet

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Garbett, S., Baron, J., Chasalow, S., Friedman, J., Klar, B., Lumley, T., Spector, P., & Tibshirani, R. (2025). acepack: ACE and AVAS for Selecting Multiple Regression Transformations (Version 1.6.3) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.acepack

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Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for acepack version 1.6.3 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-08-15. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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