R Observatory: Metrics for hierNest version 1.0.2

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

hierNest

1.0.2Package record

Penalized Regression with Hierarchical Nested Parameterization Structure

0packages depend

2.6Kdownloads / year

–test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Ziren JiangCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Issues ↗

Efficient implementation of penalized regression with hierarchical nested parametrization for grouped data. The package provides penalized regression methods that decompose subgroup specific effects into shared global effects, Major subgroup specific effects, and Minor subgroup specific effects, enabling structured borrowing of information across related clinical subgroups. Both lasso and hierarchical overlapping group lasso penalties are supported to encourage sparsity while respecting the nested subgroup structure. Efficient computation is achieved through a modified design matrix representation and a custom algorithm for overlapping group penalties.

Install

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

install.packages("hierNest", 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("ZirenJiang/hierNest")

Development version from ZirenJiang/hierNest. 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-hiernest

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-hierNest

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-hierNest

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: 3.5 min · r-devel-windows-x86_64

Status changes

OK13 OK2026-08-05
NOTE12 OK, 1 NOTE2026-08-01
OK13 OK2026-06-09
ERROR12 OK, 1 ERROR2026-06-08
OK6 OK2026-04-19

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ERROR6 OK, 1 ERROR2026-03-25

Advisories

none known

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Documentation

In release 1.0.2

READMEYes · 211 wordsVignettesYes · 1 · dynamicNEWSNoCitation fileNo

Help pages: 17 (2 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: 18%

Vignettes (1)

Getting Started with hierNest

How these are measured

Downloads

2.6K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #12,536 · ~7/day · ~213/mo

Releases R versions

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33230 days

89890 days

2.6K1 year

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How downloads are counted

Repository

zirenjiang/hiernest ↗Account: ZirenJiang

0Stars

1Forks

0Open issues

0Open PRs

0Releases

51Commits

3Commit identities

51 commits · Last activity 2026-04-11

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: 3

Forks over time

2026-02-14 · 12026-07-07 · 1

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

6 development-tooling and community-health practices detected across 4 families in the upstream repository

Checks run against github.com/zirenjiang/hiernest on 2026-10-22.

Continuous integration (1)

GitHub Actions

Docs source (3)

README.Rmdpkgdown

GitHub Pages site last deployed 2026-04-11

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

17 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing hierNest adds 69 packages (39 with compiled code, 65 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: stringi 11 MB, ggplot2 6.0 MB, data.table 5.7 MB.

Depends (1)

R >= 3.5

Imports (12)

cli dotCall64 ggplot2 magrittrMatrixmethodsrlang (>= 1.1.4)RSpectra tidyr rTensor pROC plotly

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (8)

dplyr gglasso glmnet knitr markdown rmarkdownsplinestestthat

Enhances (0)

none

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Reverse dependencies

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How these are counted

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People & History

People (18)

Ziren Jiang

Author, Maintainer since 1.0.0 (2026)

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Balasubramanian Narasimhan

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Junyang Qian

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Anibal Solon Heinsfeld

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Anibal Solón Heinsfeld

no longer listed · 1.0.0

Releases (2)

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R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
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2026-04-18
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added 1 export
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archivedRemoved from CRAN
2026-04-07
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R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11

Package metadata

First published: 2026-03-24
Total releases: 2 / 1 yrs
License: GPL (>= 2) OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 3.5
Bundled data: 17 KB / 1 file
Download size: 217 KB

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("hierNest")

Format

Jiang, Z., Cohen, A., Friedman, J., Hastie, T., Hou, J., Huling, J., Huo, L., Liang, X., McDonald, D. J., Narasimhan, B., Qian, J., Simon, N., Solon Heinsfeld, A., Tay, K., Tibshirani, R., Yang, J., Yang, Y., & Zou, H. (2026). hierNest: Penalized Regression with Hierarchical Nested Parameterization Structure (Version 1.0.2) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.hierNest

This package has no citation file, so citation() returns this entry built from DESCRIPTION.

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Format

APA

Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for hierNest version 1.0.2 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-24. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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