R Observatory: Metrics for earth version 5.3.6

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

earth

5.3.6Package record

Multivariate Adaptive Regression Splines

27packages dependsuggested by 40

250.8Kdownloads / year

33.3%test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Stephen MilborrowCRAN page ↗Website ↗

Build regression models using the techniques in Friedman's papers "Fast MARS" and "Multivariate Adaptive Regression Splines" doi:10.1214/aos/1176347963. (The term "MARS" is trademarked and thus not used in the name of the package.)

Changes in 5.3.6

Updated some web addresses in the man pages.

From NEWS.md in the release

Install

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

install.packages("earth", 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-earth

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-earth

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-earth

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: 3.0 min · r-devel-windows-x86_64

Status changes

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

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 5.3.6

READMENoVignettesNoNEWSYes · 100% structured · mentions 5.3.6Citation fileNoWebsiteYes

Help pages: 21
Examples that run: 100%17 run in a plain check
Exported functions with examples: 88%
Documented parameters: 71%
Return-value docs: 63%
Help pages citing references: 14%

How these are measured

Downloads

250.8K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #872 · ~687/day · ~20.9K/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

17.2K30 days

49.7K90 days

250.8K1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on3.7K r2u180 autocran8.5K conda_forge357 c2d4u

How downloads are counted

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

5 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing earth adds 3 packages (0 with compiled code, 1.6 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: plotmo 1.2 MB, plotrix 313 KB, Formula 46 KB.

Depends (3)

R >= 3.4.0Formula plotmo

Imports (0)

none

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (4)

gammgcvmda MASS (>= 7.3-51)

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

27direct

5indirect

Depends 3 · Imports 24

Suggested by 40

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Depends, Imports or LinkingTo, most downloaded first

Suggests, most downloaded first

caret rpart.plot parsnip SuperLearner plotmo mda mlr pdp butcher biomod2 mlrMBO discrim caretEnsemble BiodiversityR targeted spatialEco modeltime tidypredict MachineShop baguette modeltime.ensemble

and 19 more packages that suggest it on CRAN ↗

How these are counted

Code & Tests

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People & History

People (5)

Stephen Milborrow

Author, Maintainer · added in 2.6-1

Trevor Hastie

Author

Rob Tibshirani

Author · added in 5.3.4

Thomas Lumley

Contributor · added in 5.3.4

Alan Miller

Contributor · added in 5.3.4

Maintainer since 0.1-2 (2007)

Listed in earlier versions (2)

Rob Tibshirani.

no longer listed · 0.1-2 to 3.2-3

Rob Tibshirani. Uses Alan Miller's Fortran utilities with Thomas Lumley's leaps wrapper.

no longer listed · 3.2-6 to 5.3.3

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Package metadata

First published: 2007-04-19
Total releases: 109 / 19 yrs
License: GPL-3 OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 3.4.0
Bundled data: 12 KB / 2 files
Download size: 1.5 MB

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Milborrow, S., Hastie, T., Lumley, T., Miller, A., & Tibshirani, R. (2026). earth: Multivariate Adaptive Regression Splines (Version 5.3.6) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.earth

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Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for earth version 5.3.6 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-18. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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