R Observatory: Metrics for bst version 0.3-24

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

bst

0.3-24Package record

Gradient Boosting

2packages dependsuggested by 1

43.6Kdownloads / year

–test coverage

11/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Zhu WangCRAN page ↗

Functional gradient descent algorithm for a variety of convex and non-convex loss functions, for both classical and robust regression and classification problems. See Wang (2011) doi:10.2202/1557-4679.1304, Wang (2012) doi:10.3414/ME11-02-0020, Wang (2018) doi:10.1080/10618600.2018.1424635, Wang (2018) doi:10.1214/18-EJS1404.

Install

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

install.packages("bst", 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-bst

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-bst

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-bst

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: ‘Zhu Wang <zwang145@uthsc.edu>’

Package CITATION file contains call(s) to old-style personList() or
as.personList().  Please use c() on person objects instead.
Package CITATION file contains call(s) to old-style citEntry().  Please
use bibentry() instead.

CRAN check page ↗

Slowest check: 3.6 min · r-oldrel-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 0.3-24

READMENoVignettesYes · 7 · dynamicNEWSYes · 0% structuredCitation fileYes · cites a publicationWebsitenot declared in DESCRIPTION

Help pages: 22 (2 internal)
Examples that run: 50%6 run in a plain check · 6 never run
Exported functions with examples: 55%
Documented parameters: 91%
Return-value docs: 95%
Help pages citing references: 32%

Vignettes (7)

How these are measured

Downloads

43.6K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #2,372 · ~119/day · ~3.6K/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

2.3K30 days

6.9K90 days

43.6K1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on201 r2u11 autocran247 conda_forge150 c2d4u

How downloads are counted

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

8 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing bst adds 4 packages (1 with compiled code, 1.1 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: gbm 577 KB, iterators 293 KB, doParallel 160 KB.

Depends (0)

none

Imports (5)

rpartmethodsforeach doParallel gbm

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (5)

hdi pROC R.rsp knitr gdata

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

2direct

2indirect

Imports 2

Suggested by 1

Depends, Imports or LinkingTo, most downloaded first

mpath bujar

Suggests, most downloaded first

mlr

How these are counted

Code & Tests

Datasets

People & History

People (2)

Zhu Wang

Author, Maintainer since 0.2 (2011)

Torsten Hothorn

Contributor · added in 0.3-11

Releases (21)

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R 3.6.0 released · 2019-04-26
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2013-09-12 · current release · diff ↗
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R 2.15.0 released · 2012-03-30

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R 2.14.0 released · 2011-10-31
2.13.2
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2011-08-07 · diff ↗ ·
added 5 exports
cv.mhinge, mada, cv.mada, balanced.folds, permute.rows
2.13.1
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2011-06-16 · diff ↗ ·
added 7 exports
fpartial.bst, msvm_fit, msvm, loss.msvm, cv.msvm, fpartial.msvm, ex1data
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R 2.13.0 released · 2011-04-13
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2011-02-12 · diff ↗ ·
added 11 exports
bst, bst_control, gaussloss, hingeloss, loss, gaussngra, hingengra, ngradient, plotCVbst, cv.bst, mhinge
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2016-09-21 · diff ↗ ·
added 3 exports
bfunc, gradient, evalerr
0.3-13
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2016-02-28 · diff ↗ ·
added 2 exports
cv.rbst, cv.rmbst
0.3-12
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2016-01-04 · diff ↗
0.3-11
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2015-12-19 · diff ↗ ·
added 9 exports
rbst, rbstpath, nsel, mbst, mbst_fit, loss.mbst, cv.mbst, fpartial.mbst, rmbst
0.3-4
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2014-06-24 · diff ↗ ·
added 1 export
bst.sel
0.3-3
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2013-09-12 · diff ↗ ·
removed 7 exports
mhinge, cv.mhinge, msvm_fit, msvm, loss.msvm, cv.msvm, fpartial.msvm

added 7 exports
mhingeova, cv.mhingeova, mhingebst_fit, mhingebst, loss.mhingebst, cv.mhingebst, fpartial.mhingebst
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2011-06-24 · diff ↗
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2011-03-31
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R 2.12.0 released · 2010-10-15

Package metadata

First published: 2011-02-12
Total releases: 21 / 15 yrs
License: GPL (>= 2) OSI
Download size: 1.8 MB

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Machine Learning & Statistical Learning

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Format

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Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for bst version 0.3-24 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-18. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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