R Observatory: Metrics for gfboost version 0.1.1

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

gfboost

0.1.1Package record

Gradient-Free Gradient Boosting

0packages depend

2.3Kdownloads / year

31.7%test coverage

11/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Tino WernerCRAN page ↗

Implementation of routines of the author's PhD thesis on gradient-free Gradient Boosting (Werner, Tino (2020) "Gradient-Free Gradient Boosting", URL 'https://oops.uni-oldenburg.de/id/eprint/4290').

Install

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

install.packages("gfboost", 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-gfboost

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-gfboost

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-gfboost

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: ‘Tino Werner <tino.werner1@uni-oldenburg.de>’

Package CITATION file contains call(s) to old-style personList() or
as.personList().  Please use c() on person objects instead.
Package CITATION file contains call(s) to old-style citEntry().  Please
use bibentry() instead.

CRAN check page ↗

Slowest check: 2.7 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 0.1.1

READMENoVignettesYes · 1 · dynamicNEWSYes · 33% structuredCitation fileYes · cites a publicationWebsitenot declared in DESCRIPTION

Help pages: 15
Examples that run: 75%6 run in a plain check · 2 only when donttest examples are enabled (R CMD check --as-cran)
Exported functions with examples: 57%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 100%
Help pages citing references: 73%

Vignettes (1)

gfboost_vignette HTML

How these are measured

Downloads

2.3K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #20,060 · ~6/day · ~192/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

25530 days

65990 days

2.3K1 year

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Also on66 r2u3 autocran

How downloads are counted

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

6 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing gfboost adds 13 packages (9 with compiled code, 9.1 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: partykit 2.1 MB, mboost 2.0 MB, sandwich 1.4 MB.

Depends (3)

mvtnorm pcaPP mboost

Imports (0)

none

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (3)

testthat knitr rmarkdown

Enhances (0)

none

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Reverse dependencies

0direct

0indirect

Nothing depends on this yet.

How these are counted

Code & Tests

People & History

People (1)

Tino Werner

Releases (2)

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Package metadata

First published: 2020-11-03
Total releases: 2 / 6 yrs
License: GPL (>= 2) OSI
Download size: 174 KB

Cite

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citation("gfboost")

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Format

APA

Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for gfboost version 0.1.1 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-23. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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