R Observatory: Metrics for fence version 1.0

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

fence needs sae, which CRAN will archive unless its check problems are fixed by Nov 2.

fence

1.0Package record

Using Fence Methods for Model Selection

0packages depend

2.7Kdownloads / year

–test coverage

11/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Thuan NguyenCRAN page ↗

This method is a new class of model selection strategies, for mixed model selection, which includes linear and generalized linear mixed models. The idea involves a procedure to isolate a subgroup of what are known as correct models (of which the optimal model is a member). This is accomplished by constructing a statistical fence, or barrier, to carefully eliminate incorrect models. Once the fence is constructed, the optimal model is selected from among those within the fence according to a criterion which can be made flexible. References: 1. Jiang J., Rao J.S., Gu Z., Nguyen T. (2008), Fence Methods for Mixed Model Selection. The Annals of Statistics, 36(4): 1669-1692. DOI:10.1214/07-AOS517 https://projecteuclid.org/euclid.aos/1216237296. 2. Jiang J., Nguyen T., Rao J.S. (2009), A Simplified Adaptive Fence Procedure. Statistics and Probability Letters, 79, 625-629. DOI:10.1016/j.spl.2008.10.014 https://www.researchgate.net/publication/23991417_A_simplified_adaptive_fence_procedure 3. Jiang J., Nguyen T., Rao J.S. (2010), Fence Method for Nonparametric Small Area Estimation. Survey Methodology, 36(1), 3-11. http://publications.gc.ca/collections/collection_2010/statcan/12-001-X/12-001-x2010001-eng.pdf. 4. Jiming Jiang, Thuan Nguyen and J. Sunil Rao (2011), Invisible fence methods and the identification of differentially expressed gene sets. Statistics and Its Interface, Volume 4, 403-415. http://www.intlpress.com/site/pub/files/_fulltext/journals/sii/2011/0004/0003/SII-2011-0004-0003-a014.pdf. 5. Thuan Nguyen & Jiming Jiang (2012), Restricted fence method for covariate selection in longitudinal data analysis. Biostatistics, 13(2), 303-314. DOI:10.1093/biostatistics/kxr046 https://academic.oup.com/biostatistics/article/13/2/303/263903/Restricted-fence-method-for-covariate-selection-in. 6. Thuan Nguyen, Jie Peng, Jiming Jiang (2014), Fence Methods for Backcross Experiments. Statistical Computation and Simulation, 84(3), 644-662. DOI:10.1080/00949655.2012.721885 https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3891925/. 7. Jiang, J. (2014), The fence methods, in Advances in Statistics, Hindawi Publishing Corp., Cairo. DOI:10.1155/2014/830821. 8. Jiming Jiang and Thuan Nguyen (2015), The Fence Methods, World Scientific, Singapore. https://www.abebooks.com/9789814596060/Fence-Methods-Jiming-Jiang-981459606X/plp.

Install

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

install.packages("fence", 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-fence

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-fence

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-fence

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: ‘Thuan Nguyen <nguythua@ohsu.edu>’

No Authors@R field in DESCRIPTION.
Please add one, modifying
  Authors@R: c(person(given = "Jiming",
                      family = "Jiang",
                      role = "aut"),
               person(given = "Jianyang",
                      family = "Zhao",
                      role = "aut"),
               person(given = c("J.", "Sunil"),
                      family = "Rao",
                      role = "aut"),
               person(given = "Thuan",
                      family = "Nguyen",
                      role = c("aut", "cre"),
                      email = "nguythua@ohsu.edu"))
as necessary.

CRAN check page ↗

Slowest check: 2.8 min · r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

Status changes

NOTE11 OK, 2 NOTENow
NOTE12 OK, 2 NOTE2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 1.0

READMENoVignettesNoNEWSNoCitation fileNoWebsitenot declared in DESCRIPTION

Help pages: 16
Examples that run: 40%4 run in a plain check · 6 never run
Exported functions with examples: 100%
Documented parameters: 95%
Return-value docs: 100%
Help pages citing references: 63%

How these are measured

Downloads

2.7K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #16,454 · ~7/day · ~226/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

27930 days

75890 days

2.7K1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on78 r2u2 autocran

How downloads are counted

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

7 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing fence adds 32 packages (17 with compiled code, 35 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: ggplot2 6.0 MB, lme4 4.1 MB, fields 3.9 MB.

Depends (1)

R >= 2.10

Imports (10)

MASSstatslme4 ggplot2compilersae fieldsgrDevicessnowfall snow

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (1)

pscl

Enhances (0)

none

Dependencies facing archival

CRAN will archive these unless their check problems are fixed by the date shown. This package needs each one to install.

saefix by Nov 2

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

0direct

0indirect

Nothing depends on this yet.

How these are counted

Code & Tests

Datasets

People & History

People (from the free-text Author field) (4)

Maintainer since 1.0 (2017)

Releases (1)

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1.0Latest
record
2017-07-01 · current release
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Package metadata

First published: 2017-07-01
Total releases: 1 / 9 yrs
License: BSD_2_clause + file LICENSE OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 2.10
Bundled data: 13 KB / 3 files
Download size: 36 KB

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("fence")

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Format

APA

Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for fence version 1.0 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-21. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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