R Observatory: Metrics for fasterElasticNet version 1.1.2

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

This package was removed from CRAN on 2025-12-25. Its history is shown below.

Reason: issues were not addressed in time

Details below reflect version 1.1.2, its last release before removal.

fasterElasticNet

1.1.2Package record

An Amazing Fast Way to Fit Elastic Net

0packages depend

–downloads / year

–test coverage

–flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Linyu ZuoCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗

Fit Elastic Net, Lasso, and Ridge regression and do cross-validation in a fast way. We build the algorithm based on Least Angle Regression by Bradley Efron, Trevor Hastie, Iain Johnstone, etc. (2004)(<doi:10.1214/009053604000000067 >) and some algorithms like Givens rotation and Forward/Back Substitution. In this way, many matrices to be computed are retained as triangular matrices which can eventually speed up the computation. The fitting algorithm for Elastic Net is written in C++ using Armadillo linear algebra library.

Install

R (source archive)pak (dev)

url <- "https://cran.r-project.org/src/contrib/Archive/fasterElasticNet/fasterElasticNet_1.1.2.tar.gz"
pkgFile <- "fasterElasticNet_1.1.2.tar.gz"
download.file(url, pkgFile)
install.packages(pkgFile, type = "source", repos = NULL)

This package is no longer on CRAN, so install.packages() cannot fetch it by name. This downloads the last archived source (1.1.2) and builds it locally. Install its dependencies first, and note that building from source needs the usual compiler toolchain.

if (!requireNamespace("pak", quietly = TRUE))
  install.packages("pak", repos = "https://cloud.r-project.org/")
pak::pak("CUFESAM/Elastic-Net")

Development version from CUFESAM/Elastic-Net. Installs pak first if it is not already available.

Health

CRAN checks

CRAN check results are not tracked yet.

Advisories

none known

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Documentation

In release 1.1.2

READMENoVignettesNoNEWSNoCitation fileNoWebsitenot declared in DESCRIPTION

Help pages: 4includes a package overview page
Examples that run: 100%4 run in a plain check
Exported functions with examples: 100%
Documented parameters: not tracked
Return-value docs: not tracked
Help pages citing references: 25%

How these are measured

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Dependencies

Declared dependencies

5 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Depends (1)

R >= 3.1.0

Imports (1)

Rcpp

LinkingTo (2)

Rcpp RcppArmadillo

Suggests (2)

knitr rmarkdown

Enhances (0)

none

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People & History

People (12)

Linyu Zuo

Contributor, Maintainer since 1.1.2 (2018)

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Yu Bai

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Zhijun Liao

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Releases (1)

R
R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
archivedRemoved from CRAN
2025-12-25
issues were not addressed in time
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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
1.1.2
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2018-08-11
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R 3.5.0 released · 2018-04-23

Package metadata

First published: 2018-08-11
Total releases: 1 / 8 yrs
License: GPL (>= 2) OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 3.1.0
Bundled data: 3.1 MB / 2 files

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("fasterElasticNet")

Format

Ma, J., Lai, Q., Zuo, L., Yang, Y., Su, M., Yu, Z., Gao, G., Liu, X., Ruan, X., Yang, X., Bai, Y., & Liao, Z. (n.d.). fasterElasticNet: An Amazing Fast Way to Fit Elastic Net (Version 1.1.2) [Computer software]. Retrieved October 24, 2026, from https://CRAN.R-project.org/package=fasterElasticNet

This package has no citation file, so citation() returns this entry built from DESCRIPTION.

Cite the R Observatory

For a number measured here: a download total, a coverage figure, an archival date.

Format

APA

Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for fasterElasticNet version 1.1.2 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-23. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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