R Observatory: Metrics for pls version 2.9-0

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

pls

2.9-0

Partial Least Squares and Principal Component Regression

90packages depend

433.6Kdownloads / year

44.9%test coverage

8/13checks pass

Overview

About

Maintained by Kristian Hovde LilandFirst published 1999-01-1140 releasesCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗

Multivariate regression methods Partial Least Squares Regression (PLSR), Principal Component Regression (PCR) and Canonical Powered Partial Least Squares (CPPLS).

Install

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

install.packages("pls", 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("khliland/pls")

Development version from khliland/pls. 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-pls

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-pls

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-pls

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

Health

CRAN checks

5NOTE8OK

Failing flavors

NOTE r-devel-linux-x86_64-debian-clang
NOTE r-devel-linux-x86_64-debian-gcc
NOTE r-devel-linux-x86_64-fedora-clang
NOTE r-devel-linux-x86_64-fedora-gcc
NOTE r-devel-windows-x86_64

Slowest check: 2.7 min · r-oldrel-macos-x86_64

Code health

Yes

Tests · ratio 0.20

44.9%

Coverage · measured lines

100%

Documentation · exports

4

Dependencies · direct

Check history

NOTE2026-07-16
11 OK · 2 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
OK2026-04-25
12 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
NOTE2026-03-10
12 OK · 2 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE

Documentation

READMENoVignettesYes · dynamicpkgdown siteNoNEWSNoCode of conductNoContributing guideNo

Examples that run: 100%
Documented parameters: 87%
Return-value docs: 88%
References docs: 39%

Downloads

433.6K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #651 · ~1.2K/day · ~36.1K/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

24.8K30 days

88.1K90 days

433.6K1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on2.1K r2u281 autocran8.9K conda_forge1.2K c2d4u

Repository

GitHub ↗ khliland/pls

39Stars

4Forks

2Open issues

0Open PRs

7Releases

222Commits

3Contributors

222 commits · Last activity 2026-08-18 · 0% stars, 30d

Stars over time

2025-04-24 · 372026-07-07 · 39

Repository practices

Upstream repositoryBeta

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

Checks run against github.com/khliland/pls on 2026-08-16.

Continuous integration (1)

GitHub Actions

Lint, format, editor (1)

RStudio project

How this is detected·Detection ruleset v1 (2026-07-18)

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

4 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Depends (1)

R >= 3.5.0

Imports (4)

grDevicesgraphicsmethodsstats

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (6)

MASSparallelRmpi testthat RUnit knitr

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

90direct

20indirect

and 42 more packages.

Code & Tests

Datasets

People & History

People (4)

Maintainer (1)

Kristian Hovde Liland

Author, Maintainer · added in 2.7-0

Authors (3)

Kristian Hovde Liland

Author, Maintainer · added in 2.7-0

Bjørn-Helge Mevik

Author · added in 2.7-0

Ron Wehrens

Author · added in 2.7-0

Contributors (1)

Paul Hiemstra

Contributor · added in 2.7-0

Listed in earlier versions (3)

Mike Denham R port by Kjetil Halvorsen <khal@alumni.uv.es>

no longer listed · 0.1-2

Mike Denham snsdenhm@reading.ac.uk R port by Kjetil Halvorsen

no longer listed · 0.1-1

Mike Denham R port by Kjetil Halvorsen <kjetilh@umsanet.edu.bo>

no longer listed · 0.1-3

Package Timeline

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1999-01-11

Package metadata

First published: 1999-01-11
Total releases: 40 / 27 yrs
License: GPL-2 OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 3.5.0
Bundled data: 305 KB / 4 files
Download size: 4.2 MB
Installed size: not tracked yet
With dependencies: not tracked yet

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citation("pls")

Format

Liland, K. H., Hiemstra, P., Mevik, B., & Wehrens, R. (2026). pls: Partial Least Squares and Principal Component Regression (Version 2.9-0) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.pls

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Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for pls version 2.9-0 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-08-22. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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