R Observatory: Metrics for mermboost version 0.1.2

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

mermboost

0.1.2Package record

Gradient Boosting for Generalized Additive Mixed Models

0packages depend

5.7Kdownloads / year

–test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Lars KnieperCRAN 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. 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-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). 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: 2.4 min · r-oldrel-macos-x86_64

Status changes

OK13 OK2026-08-05
NOTE12 OK, 1 NOTE2026-08-01
OK14 OK2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 0.1.2

READMEYes · 571 wordsVignettesNoNEWSNoCitation fileYes · cites a publicationWebsitenot declared in DESCRIPTION

Help pages: 8
Examples that run: 100%6 run in a plain check
Exported functions with examples: 100%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 100%
Help pages citing references: 25%

How these are measured

Downloads

5.7K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #18,995 · ~16/day · ~473/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

19830 days

69590 days

5.7K1 year

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Also on93 r2u3 autocran

How downloads are counted

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

7 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing mermboost adds 33 packages (23 with compiled code, 41 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: stringi 11 MB, data.table 5.7 MB, lme4 4.3 MB.

Depends (3)

R >= 3.5.0mboost lme4

Imports (8)

stabs data.tableMASSMatrixparallelstringr tibble reformulas

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (0)

none

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

0direct

0indirect

Nothing depends on this yet.

How these are counted

Code & Tests

Datasets

People & History

People (4)

Lars Knieper

Author, Maintainer since 0.1.0 (2025)

Elisabeth Bergherr

Author

Colin Griesbach

Author

Torsten Hothorn

Author

Releases (3)

Pick two releases to compare their code metrics.

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

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' entry:

citation("mermboost")

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

It points to 10.1007/s11222-025-10612-y.

Cite the R Observatory

For a number measured here: a download total, a coverage figure, an archival date.

Format

APA

Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for mermboost version 0.1.2 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-25. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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