R Observatory: Metrics for fasta version 0.1.0

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

fasta

0.1.0Package record

Fast Adaptive Shrinkage/Thresholding Algorithm

0packages depend

6.2Kdownloads / year

–test coverage

11/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Eric C. ChiCRAN page ↗

A collection of acceleration schemes for proximal gradient methods for estimating penalized regression parameters described in Goldstein, Studer, and Baraniuk (2016) arXiv:1411.3406. Schemes such as Fast Iterative Shrinkage and Thresholding Algorithm (FISTA) by Beck and Teboulle (2009) doi:10.1137/080716542 and the adaptive stepsize rule introduced in Wright, Nowak, and Figueiredo (2009) doi:10.1109/TSP.2009.2016892 are included. You provide the objective function and proximal mappings, and it takes care of the issues like stepsize selection, acceleration, and stopping conditions for you.

Install

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

install.packages("fasta", 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-fasta

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-fasta

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-fasta

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: ‘Eric C. Chi <ecchi1105@gmail.com>’

Package CITATION file contains call(s) to old-style citEntry().  Please
use bibentry() instead.

The Description field contains
  Studer, and Baraniuk (2016) <arXiv:1411.3406>. Schemes such as Fast
Please refer to arXiv e-prints via their arXiv DOI <doi:10.48550/arXiv.YYMM.NNNNN>.

CRAN check page ↗

Slowest check: 39 s · r-devel-windows-x86_64

Status changes

NOTE11 OK, 2 NOTENow
NOTE9 OK, 5 NOTE2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 0.1.0

READMENoVignettesNoNEWSNoCitation fileYes · cites a publicationWebsitenot declared in DESCRIPTION

Help pages: 1
Examples that run: 100%1 run in a plain check
Exported functions with examples: 100%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 0%
Help pages citing references: 0%

How these are measured

Downloads

6.2K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #12,595 · ~17/day · ~514/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

28730 days

89690 days

6.2K1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on66 r2u7 autocran

How downloads are counted

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

0 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

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

Depends (0)

none

Imports (0)

none

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (0)

none

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

0direct

0indirect

Nothing depends on this yet.

How these are counted

Code & Tests

People & History

People (4)

Eric C. Chi

Richard G. Baraniuk

Author

Tom Goldstein

Author

MATLAB original, https://www.cs.umd.edu/~tomg/projects/fasta/

Christoph Studer

Author

Listed in earlier versions (2)

Baraniuk

no longer listed · 0.1.0

Chi

no longer listed · 0.1.0

Releases (1)

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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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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
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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
0.1.0Latest
record
2018-04-10 · current release
R
R 3.4.0 released · 2017-04-21

Package metadata

First published: 2018-04-10
Total releases: 1 / 8 yrs
License: MIT + file LICENSE OSI
Download size: 4.8 KB

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' entry:

citation("fasta")

The package provides a citation file, so citation() returns the authors' own entry.

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Format

APA

Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for fasta version 0.1.0 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-25. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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