R Observatory: Metrics for hierNest version 1.0.2

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

hierNest

1.0.2

Penalized Regression with Hierarchical Nested Parameterization Structure

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1.8Kdownloads / year

–test coverage

13/13checks pass

Overview

About

Maintained by Ziren JiangFirst published 2026-03-242 releasesCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗

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.

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).

Health

CRAN checks

13OK

Slowest check: 3.6 min · r-devel-windows-x86_64

Code health

None

Tests · ratio 0.00

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Coverage

93%

Documentation · exports

12

Dependencies · direct

Check history

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NOTE2026-08-01
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OK2026-06-09
13 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
ERROR2026-06-08
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OK2026-04-19
6 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE

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ERROR2026-03-25
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Documentation

READMEYes · 211 wordsVignettesYes · dynamicpkgdown siteNoNEWSNoCode of conductNoContributing guideNo

Examples that run: not tracked
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 100%
References docs: 18%

Downloads

1.8K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #9,224 · ~5/day · ~150/mo

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18130 days

1K90 days

1.8K1 year

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Repository

GitHub ↗ zirenjiang/hiernest

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51 commits · Last activity 2026-04-11

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Repository practices

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

Checks run against github.com/zirenjiang/hiernest on 2026-08-16.

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CRAN release process (1)

cran-comments.md

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README.Rmd

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Dependencies

Declared dependencies

17 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Depends (1)

R >= 3.5

Imports (12)

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

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Suggests (8)

dplyr gglasso glmnet knitr markdown rmarkdownsplinestestthat

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People & History

People (18)

Maintainer (1)

Ziren Jiang

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Contributors (14)

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Balasubramanian Narasimhan

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Junyang Qian

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Anibal Solon Heinsfeld

Contributor · added in 1.0.2

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Anibal Solón Heinsfeld

no longer listed · 1.0.0

Package Timeline

2 releases. Pick two to compare their code metrics. R releases are shown for context.

R
R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
1.0.2Latest
2026-04-18 · current release · diff ↗
unarchivedReturned to CRAN
2026-04-18
archivedRemoved from CRAN
2026-04-07
issues were not corrected in time
1.0.0
2026-03-24
R
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
Installed size: not tracked yet
With dependencies: not tracked yet

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

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Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for hierNest version 1.0.2 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-08-18. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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