R Observatory: Metrics for erboost version 1.5

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

erboost

1.5Package record

Nonparametric Multiple Expectile Regression via ER-Boost

0packages depend

2.1Kdownloads / year

–test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Yi YangCRAN page ↗

Expectile regression is a nice tool for estimating the conditional expectiles of a response variable given a set of covariates. This package implements a regression tree based gradient boosting estimator for nonparametric multiple expectile regression, proposed by Yang, Y., Qian, W. and Zou, H. (2018) doi:10.1080/00949655.2013.876024. The code is based on the 'gbm' package originally developed by Greg Ridgeway.

Install

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

install.packages("erboost", 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-erboost

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-erboost

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-erboost

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: 2.5 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

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Documentation

In release 1.5

READMENoVignettesNoNEWSNoCitation fileNoWebsitenot declared in DESCRIPTION

Help pages: 7
Examples that run: 100%1 run in a plain check
Exported functions with examples: 14%
Documented parameters: not tracked
Return-value docs: not tracked
Help pages citing references: 71%

How these are measured

Downloads

2.1K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #21,582 · ~6/day · ~177/mo

Releases R versions

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23130 days

62090 days

2.1K1 year

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Dependencies

Declared dependencies

0 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing erboost adds no packages beyond those that come with R.

Depends (3)

R >= 2.12.0latticesplines

Imports (0)

none

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (0)

none

Enhances (0)

none

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Reverse dependencies

0direct

0indirect

Nothing depends on this yet.

How these are counted

Code & Tests

People & History

People (3)

Yi Yang

Author, Maintainer since 1.0 (2013)

http://www.math.mcgill.ca/yyang/

Hui Zou

Author

http://users.stat.umn.edu/~zouxx019/

Greg Ridgeway

Contributor, Copyright holder · added in 1.4

Releases (6)

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R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
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R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11
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2025-03-25
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2025-03-25 · current release · diff ↗
archivedRemoved from CRAN
2024-11-11
issues were not corrected despite reminders
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R 4.4.0 released · 2024-04-24
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2024-01-19 · diff ↗
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R 4.3.0 released · 2023-04-21
removedRemoved from CRAN
2022-08-11
misrepresentation of authorship and copyright ownership, and email to the maintainer is undeliverable Back on CRAN on 2024-01-19
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R 4.2.0 released · 2022-04-22
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R 4.1.0 released · 2021-05-18
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R 4.0.0 released · 2020-04-24
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R 3.6.0 released · 2019-04-26
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R 3.5.0 released · 2018-04-23
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R 3.4.0 released · 2017-04-21
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R 3.3.0 released · 2016-05-03

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2015-08-28 · diff ↗
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R 3.2.0 released · 2015-04-16
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R 3.1.0 released · 2014-04-10
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2013-10-28 · diff ↗
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2013-10-22 · diff ↗
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2013-10-13
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R 3.0.0 released · 2013-04-03

Package metadata

First published: 2013-10-13
Total releases: 6 / 13 yrs
License: GPL-3 OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 2.12.0
Download size: 46 KB

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("erboost")

Format

Yang, Y., Ridgeway, G., & Zou, H. (2025). erboost: Nonparametric Multiple Expectile Regression via ER-Boost (Version 1.5) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.erboost

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 erboost version 1.5 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-24. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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