R Observatory: Metrics for bolasso version 0.5.0

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

bolasso

0.5.0Package record

Model Consistent Lasso Estimation Through the Bootstrap

0packages depend

5.2Kdownloads / year

62.9%test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Daniel MolitorCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Website ↗Issues ↗

Implements the bolasso algorithm for consistent variable selection and estimation accuracy. Includes support for many parallel backends via the future package. For details see: Bach (2008), 'Bolasso: model consistent Lasso estimation through the bootstrap', doi:10.48550/arXiv.0804.1302.

Changes in 0.5.0

Addresses [#19]. When family = "multinomial" is specified, previously bolasso did not correctly support variable selection, plotting, etc. This version addresses this. In general, when family = "multinomial", all outputs become a list where each list element corresponds to a unique outcome in the multinomial response vector. However, the content of each list element will be the same as it originally was (e.g. a tibble of coefficients, or a vector of variable names, etc.). In the case of plotting, it will create a facetted plot with one facet per unique outcome. The only limitations are that family = "mgaussian" is not currently supported, and when predicting with family = "multinomial", only type = "class" is currently supported. These may be added at a later date.

From NEWS.md in the release

Install

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

install.packages("bolasso", 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("dmolitor/bolasso")

Development version from dmolitor/bolasso. 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-bolasso

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-bolasso

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-bolasso

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: 2.4 min · r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

Status changes

OK13 OK2026-08-05
NOTE12 OK, 1 NOTE2026-08-01
OK14 OK2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

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Documentation

In release 0.5.0

READMEYes · 1,142 wordsVignettesNoNEWSYes · 100% structured · mentions 0.5.0Citation fileNoWebsiteYes · pkgdown

Help pages: 10 (1 internal)
Examples that run: 100%1 run in a plain check
Exported functions with examples: 14%
Documented parameters: 94%
Return-value docs: 71%
Help pages citing references: 0% with a bibliography file

How these are measured

Downloads

5.2K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #6,912 · ~14/day · ~429/mo

Releases R versions

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41230 days

1.3K90 days

5.2K1 year

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How downloads are counted

Repository

dmolitor/bolasso ↗Account: dmolitor

6Stars

0Forks

0Open issues

0Open PRs

5Releases

89Commits

1Commit identities

rstatsbolassovariable-selectionlassobootstrap

89 commits · Last activity 2026-03-22 · 0% stars, 30d

Responsiveness

How these are sampled

PRs merged (all time): 100%
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed issues: 2
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed PRs: 0

Stars over time

2024-12-11 · 42026-07-07 · 6

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

10 development-tooling and community-health practices detected across 6 families in the upstream repository

Checks run against github.com/dmolitor/bolasso on 2026-10-21.

Continuous integration (2)

GitHub ActionsR CMD check workflow

The R CMD check workflow runs on Linux

Docs source (4)

README.Rmdpkgdown

GitHub Pages site last deployed 2026-03-22 · The repository has a site deploy workflow

Coverage (1)

Coverage reporting (Codecov)

Reproducibility and dev environment (1)

renv

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CRAN release process (1)

cran-comments.md

Lint, format, editor (1)

RStudio project

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

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

10 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing bolasso adds 37 packages (16 with compiled code, 25 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: ggplot2 6.0 MB, glmnet 2.7 MB, Rcpp 1.8 MB.

Depends (2)

R >= 4.1.0Matrix

Imports (8)

future.apply gamlr generics ggplot2 glmnet progressrstatstibble

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (3)

testthat mlbench covr

Enhances (0)

none

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Reverse dependencies

0direct

0indirect

Nothing depends on this yet.

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Code & Tests

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People & History

People (1)

Daniel Molitor

Author, Maintainer since 0.1.0 (2022)

Releases (5)

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R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
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2026-03-19 · current release · diff ↗
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added 1 export
bootstrap_samples
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R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11
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added 5 exports
plot_selected_variables, plot_selection_thresholds, selected_variables, selection_thresholds, tidy
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R 4.4.0 released · 2024-04-24
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R 4.3.0 released · 2023-04-21
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R 4.2.0 released · 2022-04-22
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R 4.1.0 released · 2021-05-18

Package metadata

First published: 2022-01-04
Total releases: 5 / 4 yrs
License: MIT + file LICENSE OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 4.1.0
Bundled data: 2.8 MB / 1 file
Download size: 3.4 MB

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citation("bolasso")

Format

Molitor, D. (2026). bolasso: Model Consistent Lasso Estimation Through the Bootstrap (Version 0.5.0) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.bolasso

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Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for bolasso version 0.5.0 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-25. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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