Tools for Building OLS Regression Models
Overview
Tools designed to make it easier for users, particularly beginner/intermediate R users to build ordinary least squares regression models. Includes comprehensive regression output, heteroskedasticity tests, collinearity diagnostics, residual diagnostics, measures of influence, model fit assessment and variable selection procedures.
This is a minor release for bug fixes and other enhancements.
New Features
- compare performance of regression models using multiple metrics
- ANOVA for regression models
- evaluate performance of regression models
- comprehensive information from model objects
Enhancements
- Fixed number of steps in stepwise regression (#214)
Bug Fixes
From NEWS.md in the release
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Documentation
- Help pages
- 113 (6 internal)includes a package overview page
- Examples that run
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- Exported functions with examples
- 100%
- Documented parameters
- 100%
- Return-value docs
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- Help pages citing references
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Dependencies
Installing olsrr adds 86 packages (48 with compiled code, 77 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: stringi 11 MB, ggplot2 6.0 MB, bslib 5.6 MB.
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- RR 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
- 0.7.0Latest2026-04-22 · current release · diff ↗ ·
added 23 exports
ols_anova, ols_compare_model_performance, ols_count_obs, ols_count_parameters, ols_get_call, ols_get_data, ols_get_deviance, ols_get_df, ols_get_formula, ols_get_interaction_terms, ols_get_intercept, ols_get_model_matrix, ols_get_parameters, ols_get_predicted, ols_get_predictors, ols_get_residuals, ols_get_response, ols_get_sigma, ols_get_variables, ols_get_vcov, ols_has_intercept, ols_model_info, ols_model_performance - RR 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11
- 0.6.12024-11-06 · diff ↗
- RR 4.4.0 released · 2024-04-24
- 0.6.02024-02-12 · diff ↗ ·
removed 39 exports
ols_all_subset, ols_all_subset_betas, ols_avplots, ols_bartlett_test, ols_best_subset, ols_bp_test, ols_cooksd_barplot, ols_cooksd_chart, ols_corr_test, ols_dfbetas_panel, ols_dffits_plot, ols_diagnostic_panel, ols_dsrvsp_plot, ols_f_test, ols_fm_plot, ols_hadi_plot, ols_norm_test, ols_ovsp_plot, ols_potrsd_plot, ols_reg_line, ols_resp_viz, ols_rfs_plot, ols_rpc_plot, ols_rsd_boxplot, ols_rsd_hist, ols_rsd_plot, ols_rsd_qqplot, ols_rsdlev_plot, ols_rvsp_plot, ols_rvsr_plot and 9 moreadded 12 exports
ols_step_backward_adj_r2, ols_step_backward_r2, ols_step_backward_sbc, ols_step_backward_sbic, ols_step_both_adj_r2, ols_step_both_r2, ols_step_both_sbc, ols_step_both_sbic, ols_step_forward_adj_r2, ols_step_forward_r2, ols_step_forward_sbc, ols_step_forward_sbic - RR 4.3.0 released · 2023-04-21
- RR 4.2.0 released · 2022-04-22
- RR 4.1.0 released · 2021-05-18
- RR 4.0.0 released · 2020-04-24
- 0.5.3
- RR 3.6.0 released · 2019-04-26
- 0.5.22018-11-22 · diff ↗ ·
added 15 exports
ols_prep_avplot_data, ols_prep_cdplot_data, ols_prep_cdplot_outliers, ols_prep_dfbeta_data, ols_prep_dfbeta_outliers, ols_prep_dsrvf_data, ols_prep_outlier_obs, ols_prep_regress_x, ols_prep_regress_y, ols_prep_rfsplot_fmdata, ols_prep_rfsplot_rsdata, ols_prep_rstudlev_data, ols_prep_rvsrplot_data, ols_prep_srchart_data, ols_prep_srplot_data - 0.5.12018-05-04 · diff ↗
- RR 3.5.0 released · 2018-04-23
- 0.5.02018-03-26 · diff ↗ ·
added 41 exports
ols_deps, ols_plot_added_variable, ols_plot_comp_plus_resid, ols_plot_cooksd_bar, ols_plot_cooksd_chart, ols_plot_dfbetas, ols_plot_dffits, ols_plot_diagnostics, ols_plot_fm, ols_plot_hadi, ols_plot_obs_fit, ols_plot_reg_line, ols_plot_resid_box, ols_plot_resid_fit, ols_plot_resid_fit_spread, ols_plot_resid_hist, ols_plot_resid_lev, ols_plot_resid_pot, ols_plot_resid_qq, ols_plot_resid_regressor, ols_plot_resid_spread, ols_plot_resid_stand, ols_plot_resid_stud, ols_plot_resid_stud_fit, ols_plot_response, ols_step_all_possible, ols_step_all_possible_betas, ols_step_backward_aic, ols_step_backward_p, ols_step_best_subset and 11 more
Package metadata
- First published
- 2017-05-11
- Total releases
- 11 / 9 yrs
- License
- MIT + file LICENSE OSI
- Minimum R
- ≥ 3.3
- Bundled data
- 1.0 MB / 7 files
- Download size
- 1.8 MB
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