R Observatory: Metrics for glmnet version 5.1

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

glmnet

5.1Package record

Lasso and Elastic-Net Regularized Generalized Linear Models

448packages dependsuggested by 188

2.2Mdownloads / year

44.6%test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Trevor HastieCRAN page ↗Website ↗

Extremely efficient procedures for fitting the entire lasso or elastic-net regularization path for linear regression, logistic and multinomial regression models, Poisson regression, Cox model, multiple-response Gaussian, and the grouped multinomial regression; see doi:10.18637/jss.v033.i01 and doi:10.18637/jss.v039.i05. There are two new and important additions. The family argument can be a GLM family object, which opens the door to any programmed family (doi:10.18637/jss.v106.i01). This comes with a modest computational cost, so when the built-in families suffice, they should be used instead. The other novelty is the relax option, which refits each of the active sets in the path unpenalized. The algorithm uses cyclical coordinate descent in a path-wise fashion, as described in the papers cited.

Changes in 5.1

Allow for the penalty.factor argument to be a function, as it is for exclude.

Allows for seemless CV, when this function can depend on the response.

From NEWS.md in the release

Install

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

install.packages("glmnet", 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-glmnet

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-glmnet

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-glmnet

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: 9.9 min · r-devel-windows-x86_64

Status changes

OK13 OK2026-10-15
ERROR12 OK, 1 ERROR2026-10-01
NOTE8 OK, 5 NOTE2026-09-24
ERROR7 OK, 5 NOTE, 1 ERROR2026-09-11
NOTE11 OK, 2 NOTE2026-07-16

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OK13 OK2026-06-09
ERROR12 OK, 1 ERROR2026-06-08
OK13 OK2026-05-02
NOTE11 OK, 1 NOTE2026-04-25
ERROR9 OK, 4 NOTE, 1 ERROR2026-03-30
NOTE12 OK, 2 NOTE2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 5.1

READMEYes · 461 wordsVignettesYes · 6 · dynamicNEWSYes · 67% structured · mentions 5.1Citation fileYes · cites a publicationWebsiteYes

Cites a JSS article

Help pages: 47 (2 internal)includes a package overview page
Examples that run: 100%24 run in a plain check
Exported functions with examples: 81%
Documented parameters: 79%
Return-value docs: 75%
Help pages citing references: 23%

Vignettes (6)

How these are measured

Downloads

2.2M

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #252 · ~6.1K/day · ~185.8K/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

201.1K30 days

500.5K90 days

2.2M1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on49K r2u148 autocran205.2K conda_forge1.9K c2d4u

How downloads are counted

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

10 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing glmnet adds 5 packages (2 with compiled code, 4.5 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: Rcpp 1.8 MB, RcppEigen 1.7 MB, shape 631 KB.

Depends (2)

R >= 3.6.0Matrix

Imports (6)

methodsutilsforeach shapesurvivalRcpp

LinkingTo (2)

RcppEigen Rcpp

Suggests (6)

knitr larsnnettestthat xfun rmarkdown

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

448direct

339indirect

Depends 40 · Imports 408

Suggested by 188

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Depends, Imports or LinkingTo, most downloaded first

and 400 more dependents and 188 packages that suggest it on CRAN ↗

How these are counted

Code & Tests

Datasets

People & History

People (9)

Trevor Hastie

Author, Maintainer since 1.1 (2008)

Jerome Friedman

Author

Balasubramanian Narasimhan

Author · added in 2.0-16

Noah Simon

Author · added in 1.9-8

Kenneth Tay

Author · added in 4.0

Jonathan Taylor

Author · added in 5.0

Rob Tibshirani

Author

James Yang

Author · added in 4.1-3

Junyang Qian

Contributor · added in 2.0-12

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Package metadata

First published: 2008-06-02
Total releases: 68 / 18 yrs
License: GPL-2 OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 3.6.0
Bundled data: 489 KB / 8 files
Download size: 2.7 MB

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citation("glmnet")

The package provides a citation file, so citation() returns the authors' own entry.

It points to 10.18637/jss.v033.i01, 10.18637/jss.v039.i05, 10.18637/jss.v106.i01.

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Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for glmnet version 5.1 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-21. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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