R Observatory: Metrics for mermboost version 0.1.2

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

mermboost

0.1.2

Gradient Boosting for Generalized Additive Mixed Models

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6.3Kdownloads / year

–test coverage

13/13checks pass

Overview

About

Maintained by Lars KnieperFirst published 2025-02-243 releasesCRAN page ↗

Provides a novel framework to estimate mixed models via gradient boosting. The implemented functions are based on the 'mboost' and 'lme4' packages, and the family range is therefore determined by 'lme4'. A correction mechanism for cluster-constant covariates is implemented, as well as estimation of the covariance of random effects. These methods are described in the accompanying publication; see doi:10.1007/s11222-025-10612-y for details.

Install

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

install.packages("mermboost", 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-mermboost

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-mermboost

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-mermboost

RPMs auto-built from CRAN on openSUSE OBS (Tumbleweed).

Health

CRAN checks

13OK

Slowest check: 2.4 min · r-oldrel-macos-x86_64

Code health

None

Tests · ratio 0.00

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Coverage

100%

Documentation · exports

10

Dependencies · direct

Check history

OK2026-08-05
13 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
NOTE2026-08-01
12 OK · 1 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
OK2026-03-10
14 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE

Documentation

READMEYes · 571 wordsVignettesNopkgdown siteNoNEWSNoCode of conductNoContributing guideNo

Examples that run: 100%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 100%
References docs: 25%

Downloads

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Rank #8,786 · ~17/day · ~525/mo

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Dependencies

Declared dependencies

7 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Depends (3)

R >= 3.5.0mboost lme4

Imports (8)

stabs data.tableMASSMatrixparallelstringr tibble reformulas

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none

Suggests (0)

none

Enhances (0)

none

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Code & Tests

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People & History

People (4)

Maintainer (1)

Lars Knieper

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Package Timeline

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

0.1.2Latest
2026-07-31 · current release · diff ↗
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R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
0.1.1
2025-05-16 · diff ↗
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R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11
0.1.0
2025-02-24
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R 4.4.0 released · 2024-04-24

Package metadata

First published: 2025-02-24
Total releases: 3 / 1 yrs
License: GPL-2 OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 3.5.0
Bundled data: 30 KB / 3 files
Download size: 52 KB
Installed size: not tracked yet
With dependencies: not tracked yet

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Format

Knieper, L., Bergherr, E., Griesbach, C., & Hothorn, T. (2026). mermboost: Gradient Boosting for Generalized Additive Mixed Models (Version 0.1.2) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.mermboost

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Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for mermboost version 0.1.2 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-08-25. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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