R Observatory: Metrics for pboost version 0.4.11

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

pboost

0.4.11Package record

Profile Boosting Framework for Parametric Models

0packages depend

3.8Kdownloads / year

–test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Zengchao XuCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Issues ↗

A profile boosting framework for feature selection in parametric models. It offers a unified interface pboost() and several wrapped models, including linear model, generalized linear models, quantile regression, Cox proportional hazards model, beta regression, spatial auto-regressive models.

Changes in 0.4.11

add plagsarlm() and flagsarlm().

From NEWS.md in the release

Install

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

install.packages("pboost", 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("paradoxical-rhapsody/pboost")

Development version from paradoxical-rhapsody/pboost. 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-pboost

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-pboost

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-pboost

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: 3.8 min · r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

Status changes

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

Advisories

none known

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Documentation

In release 0.4.11

READMENoVignettesNoNEWSYes · 100% structured · mentions 0.4.11Citation fileNoWebsitenot declared in DESCRIPTION

Help pages: 22 (1 internal)includes a package overview page
Examples that run: 88%7 run in a plain check · 1 never run
Exported functions with examples: 44%
Documented parameters: 97%
Return-value docs: 100%
Help pages citing references: 14%

How these are measured

Downloads

3.8K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #14,733 · ~10/day · ~317/mo

Releases R versions

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27530 days

80790 days

3.8K1 year

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How downloads are counted

Repository

paradoxical-rhapsody/pboost ↗Account: paradoxical-rhapsody

0Stars

0Forks

0Open issues

0Open PRs

0Releases

License file reads as GPL-3.0 · Last activity 2026-05-22

Responsiveness

not measured

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

2 development-tooling and community-health practices detected across 1 family in the upstream repository

Checks run against github.com/paradoxical-rhapsody/pboost on 2026-10-18.

CRAN release process (2)

cran-comments.mdCRAN-SUBMISSION

How this is detected·Detection ruleset v3 (2026-09-26)

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

7 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing pboost adds 51 packages (32 with compiled code, 66 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: sf 9.3 MB, TH.data 8.2 MB, data.table 5.7 MB.

Depends (1)

R >= 4.1.0

Imports (11)

statsMatrixMASSbetareg quantregsurvivalFormula (>= 1.2.5)glmnet ncvreg rqPen spatialreg

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (0)

none

Enhances (0)

none

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Reverse dependencies

0direct

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Nothing depends on this yet.

How these are counted

Code & Tests

People & History

People (1)

Zengchao Xu

Releases (3)

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0.4.11Latest
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2026-05-24 · current release · diff ↗ ·
removed 2 exports
fsar, psar

added 10 exports
flagsarlm, frq.fit, fsar.fit, pen_glmnet, pen_ncvreg, pen_rq, pen_sar, plagsarlm, prq.fit, psar.fit
0.4.8
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2026-05-13 · diff ↗ ·
added 15 exports
fbetareg, fcoxph, fglm, fglm.fit, flm, flm.fit, frq, frs, fsar, get_rho, pglm.fit, plm.fit, psar, sar.fit, set_rook_matrix
R
R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
0.2.1
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2026-01-08
R
R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11

Package metadata

First published: 2026-01-08
Total releases: 3 / 1 yrs
License: GPL (>= 3) OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 4.1.0
Download size: 24 KB

Cite

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citation("pboost")

Format

Xu, Z. (2026). pboost: Profile Boosting Framework for Parametric Models (Version 0.4.11) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.pboost

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Format

APA

Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for pboost version 0.4.11 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-20. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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