R Observatory: Metrics for fastgbm version 0.6.1

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

fastgbm

0.6.1Package record

Fast Histogram Gradient Boosting for Regression, Classification, and Survival Analysis

0packages depend

542downloads / year

90.0%test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Imad El BadisyCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Issues ↗

A fast gradient boosting machine covering four task types with one interface: regression (squared error), binary and multiclass classification (logistic and one-vs-rest), and right-censored survival analysis via Cox (Breslow ties), accelerated failure time (normal location-scale), or piecewise-exponential objectives. Provides native missing-value routing, baseline-hazard estimation and survival-probability prediction for the survival objectives, and deterministic multi-threaded training via 'RcppParallel'. Methods are described in Friedman (2001) doi:10.1214/aos/1013203451.

Changes in 0.6.1

CRAN resubmission fixes

Single-quoted 'RcppParallel' in the DESCRIPTION Description field (per CRAN reviewer feedback: software names must be single-quoted in Title/Description).
Added a methods reference to Description: Friedman (2001) <doi:10.1214/aos/1013203451>, the canonical gradient boosting machine reference (per CRAN reviewer request).

From NEWS.md in the release

Install

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

install.packages("fastgbm", repos = "https://cloud.r-project.org/")

Installs the current CRAN release. Prebuilt binaries on Windows and macOS.

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

Development version from ielbadisy/fastgbm. Installs pak first if it is not already available.

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-fastgbm

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-fastgbm

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-fastgbm

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: 3.2 min · r-devel-windows-x86_64

Status changes

OK13 OK2026-10-25
ERROR12 OK, 1 ERROR2026-10-24
OK7 OK2026-09-02

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 0.6.1

READMEYes · 3,693 wordsVignettesYes · 6 · dynamicNEWSYes · 100% structured · mentions 0.6.1Citation fileNoWebsitenot declared in DESCRIPTION

Help pages: 14 (1 internal)includes a package overview page
Examples that run: no examples
Exported functions with examples: 0%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 100%
Help pages citing references: 0%

Vignettes (6)

Algorithm HTML
Benchmarking HTML
Classification HTML
Cox, AFT, and Piecewise-Exponential Objectives HTML
Getting Started HTML
Regression HTML

How these are measured

Downloads

542

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #23,790 · ~1/day · ~45/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

20730 days

54290 days

5421 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on16 r2u6 autocran

How downloads are counted

Repository

ielbadisy/fastgbm ↗Account: ielbadisy

1Stars

0Forks

0Open issues

0Open PRs

0Releases

87Commits

1Commit identities

87 commits · Last activity 2026-10-19 · 0% stars, 30d · Default branch at 0.7.0, ahead of CRAN 0.6.1 (checked 2026-10-21)

Responsiveness

How these are sampled

PRs merged (all time): 100%
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed issues: not measured
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed PRs: 0

Stars over time

2026-09-02 · 02026-09-06 · 1

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

3 development-tooling and community-health practices detected across 2 families in the upstream repository

Checks run against github.com/ielbadisy/fastgbm on 2026-10-21.

Continuous integration (2)

GitHub ActionsR CMD check workflow

The R CMD check workflow runs on Linux, macOS and Windows, and on R-devel

CRAN release process (1)

cran-comments.md

How this is detected·Detection ruleset v4 (2026-10-20)

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

12 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing fastgbm adds 2 packages (2 with compiled code, 2.5 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: Rcpp 1.8 MB, RcppParallel 744 KB.

Depends (1)

R >= 4.5.0

Imports (4)

statsutilsRcpp RcppParallel

LinkingTo (2)

Rcpp RcppParallel

Suggests (9)

testthat knitr rmarkdownsurvivalggplot2 pdp gbm xgboost ranger

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

0direct

0indirect

Nothing depends on this yet.

How these are counted

Code & Tests

People & History

People (1)

Imad El Badisy

Author, Maintainer since 0.6.1 (2026)

Releases (1)

0.6.1Latest
record
2026-09-01 · current release
R
R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24

Package metadata

First published: 2026-09-01
Total releases: 1 / 1 yrs
License: MIT + file LICENSE OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 4.5.0
Download size: 404 KB

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("fastgbm")

Format

El Badisy, I. (2026). fastgbm: Fast Histogram Gradient Boosting for Regression, Classification, and Survival Analysis (Version 0.6.1) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.fastgbm

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 fastgbm version 0.6.1 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-25. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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