R Observatory: Metrics for genridge version 0.8.0

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

genridge

0.8.0Package record

Generalized Ridge Trace Plots for Ridge Regression

0packages depend

4.4Kdownloads / year

–test coverage

0/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Michael FriendlyCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Website ↗Issues ↗

The genridge package introduces generalizations of the standard univariate ridge trace plot used in ridge regression and related methods. These graphical methods show both bias (actually, shrinkage) and precision, by plotting the covariance ellipsoids of the estimated coefficients, rather than just the estimates themselves. 2D and 3D plotting methods are provided, both in the space of the predictor variables and in the transformed space of the PCA/SVD of the predictors.

Changes in 0.8.0

This is a major update to the package adding additional plotting methods

o Fleshed out and installed plot.precision()

o Illustrate plot.precision() in README.Rmd

o Added diab data, diabetes from CASI

o Fixed documentation for plot.ridge() so that plot.pcaridge() is documented explicitly.

o 'vif.ridge()` now returns a "vif.ridge" object list to prepare for a plot method.

o Added plot.vif.ridge() to plot VIFs vs shrinkage

o Added norm.diff = sqrt((b_OLS - b_ridge)^2) as a measure of shrinkage to precision()

o Added plot.precision() for plots of shrinkage vs. precision

o Added best() to display the optimal shrinkage criteria

From NEWS.md in the release

Install

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

install.packages("genridge", 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("friendly/genridge")

Development version from friendly/genridge. 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-genridge

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-genridge

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-genridge

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

13NOTE

Check messages

NOTEDESCRIPTION meta-informationr-devel-linux-x86_64-debian-clang, r-devel-linux-x86_64-debian-gcc, r-devel-linux-x86_64-fedora-clang, r-devel-linux-x86_64-fedora-gcc, r-devel-windows-x86_64, r-oldrel-macos-arm64, r-oldrel-macos-x86_64, r-oldrel-windows-x86_64, r-patched-linux-x86_64, r-release-linux-x86_64, r-release-macos-arm64, r-release-macos-x86_64, r-release-windows-x86_64

r-devel-linux-x86_64-debian-clang, r-devel-linux-x86_64-debian-gcc, r-devel-linux-x86_64-fedora-clang, r-devel-linux-x86_64-fedora-gcc, r-oldrel-macos-arm64, r-patched-linux-x86_64, r-release-linux-x86_64, r-release-macos-arm64, r-release-macos-x86_64

Missing dependency on R >= 4.1.0 because package code uses the pipe
  |> or function shorthand \(...) syntax added in R 4.1.0.
  File(s) using such syntax:
    ‘plot.precision.Rd’ ‘ridge.R’

r-devel-windows-x86_64, r-oldrel-windows-x86_64, r-release-windows-x86_64

Missing dependency on R >= 4.1.0 because package code uses the pipe
  |> or function shorthand \(...) syntax added in R 4.1.0.
  File(s) using such syntax:
    'plot.precision.Rd' 'ridge.R'

r-oldrel-macos-x86_64

Missing dependency on R >= 4.1.0 because package code uses the pipe
  |> or function shorthand \(...) syntax added in R 4.1.0.
  File(s) using such syntax:
    ‘ridge.R’

CRAN check page ↗

Slowest check: 1.5 min · r-devel-windows-x86_64

Status changes

NOTE13 NOTE2026-06-09
ERROR12 NOTE, 1 ERROR2026-06-08
NOTE3 OK, 11 NOTE2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 0.8.0

README· In the repository, left out of the releaseVignettesNoNEWSYes · 67% structured · mentions 0.8.0Citation fileNoWebsiteYes · pkgdown

Help pages: 18includes a package overview page
Examples that run: 94%17 run in a plain check · 1 hold no code
Exported functions with examples: 100%
Documented parameters: 72%
Return-value docs: 100%
Help pages citing references: 72%

How these are measured

Downloads

4.4K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #5,632 · ~12/day · ~364/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

64830 days

1.5K90 days

4.4K1 year

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How downloads are counted

Repository

friendly/genridge ↗Account: friendly

4Stars

1Forks

0Open issues

0Open PRs

5Releases

184Commits

3Commit identities

bias-variancegraphicsprincipal-component-analysisregression-modelsridge-regressionsingular-value-decomposition

184 commits · Last activity 2026-09-11

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

2024-11-29 · 42026-07-07 · 4

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

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

Checks run against github.com/friendly/genridge on 2026-10-25.

Docs source (3)

README.Rmdpkgdown

GitHub Pages site last deployed 2026-09-11

pkgdown site last built 2026-09-11

CRAN release process (1)

cran-comments.md

Lint, format, editor (1)

RStudio project

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

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

5 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing genridge adds 83 packages (45 with compiled code, 76 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: stringi 11 MB, ggplot2 6.0 MB, bslib 5.6 MB.

Depends (2)

R >= 3.5.0car

Imports (3)

rgl colorspacesplines

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (3)

MASSbestglm vcdExtra

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

0direct

0indirect

Nothing depends on this yet.

How these are counted

Code & Tests

Datasets

People & History

People (1)

Michael Friendly

Author, Maintainer since 0.5-0 (2011)

Releases (11)

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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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2023-08-08 · diff ↗ ·
removed 4 exports
pattern:*\\.ridge, pattern:*\\.pcaridge, pattern:precision\\.*, pattern:ridge\\.*

added 2 exports
pca, precision
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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 3.3.0 released · 2016-05-03

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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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R 3.0.0 released · 2013-04-03
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R 2.15.0 released · 2012-03-30
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2011-12-30 · diff ↗ ·
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0.6-1
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2011-12-19 · diff ↗ ·
removed 11 exports
coef.ridge, print.ridge, plot.ridge, pairs.ridge, pca.ridge, vcov.ridge, precision, precision.ridge, precision.lm, vif.ridge, plot3d.ridge

added 4 exports
pattern:*\\.ridge, pattern:*\\.pcaridge, pattern:precision\\.*, plot3d
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2011-12-05 · diff ↗ ·
added 6 exports
vcov.ridge, precision, precision.ridge, precision.lm, vif.ridge, plot3d.ridge
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R 2.14.0 released · 2011-10-31
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R 2.13.0 released · 2011-04-13

Package metadata

First published: 2011-08-26
Total releases: 11 / 15 yrs
License: GPL (>= 2) OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 3.5.0
Bundled data: 15 KB / 5 files
Download size: 229 KB

Cite

Cite this package

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citation("genridge")

Format

Friendly, M. (2024). genridge: Generalized Ridge Trace Plots for Ridge Regression (Version 0.8.0) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.genridge

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Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for genridge version 0.8.0 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-26. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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