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pulsar

Parallel Utilities for Lambda Selection along a Regularization Path

v0.3.13 · Mar 28, 2026 · GPL (>= 3)
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Model selection for penalized graphical models using the Stability Approach to Regularization Selection ('StARS'), with options for speed-ups including Bounded StARS (B-StARS), batch computing, and other stability metrics (e.g., graphlet stability G-StARS). Christian L. Müller, Richard Bonneau, Zachary Kurtz (2016) <doi:10.48550/arXiv.1605.07072>.

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OK 13 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE Jun 8, 2026
ERROR 12 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 1 ERROR · 0 FAILURE Jun 7, 2026
ERROR r-devel-linux-x86_64-debian-gcc

tests

Running ‘testthat.R’ [48s/70s]
Running the tests in ‘tests/testthat.R’ failed.
Complete output:
  > suppressPackageStartupMessages(library(testthat))
  > suppressPackageStartupMessages(library(pulsar))
  > 
  > testthat::test_check("pulsar")
  Saving
...[truncated]...
r.R:48:1
   2.   └─pulsar (local) pfun(...)
   3.     └─pulsar:::batchply(...)
   4.       └─batchtools::makeRegistry(...)
   5.         └─fs::dir_create(...)
  
  [ FAIL 3 | WARN 8 | SKIP 0 | PASS 170 ]
  Error:
  ! Test failures.
  Execution halted
OK 12 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 2 FAILURE Mar 30, 2026
FAILURE r-patched-linux-x86_64

tests

FAILURE r-release-linux-x86_64

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ERROR 6 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 1 ERROR · 0 FAILURE Mar 19, 2026
ERROR r-devel-linux-x86_64-fedora-gcc

tests

Running ‘testthat.R’ [0m/90m]
Running the tests in ‘tests/testthat.R’ failed.
Complete output:
  > suppressPackageStartupMessages(library(testthat))
  > suppressPackageStartupMessages(library(pulsar))
  > 
  > testthat::test_check("pulsar")
  
  
  Execution halted

Dependency Network

Dependencies Reverse dependencies Matrix (>= 1.5) pulsar

Version History

14 tracked
updated 0.3.13 ← 0.3.12 diff Mar 29, 2026
new 0.3.12 Mar 19, 2026
update 0.3.11 ← 0.3.10 diff Sep 23, 2023
update 0.3.10 ← 0.3.9 diff Jan 25, 2023
update 0.3.9 ← 0.3.8 diff Jan 7, 2023
update 0.3.8 ← 0.3.7 diff Aug 26, 2022
update 0.3.7 ← 0.3.6 diff Aug 6, 2020
update 0.3.6 ← 0.3.5 diff Aug 21, 2019
update 0.3.5 ← 0.3.4 diff Mar 6, 2019
update 0.3.4 ← 0.3.3 diff Sep 1, 2018
update 0.3.3 ← 0.3.2 diff Jun 11, 2018
update 0.3.2 ← 0.3.1 diff Mar 16, 2018
update 0.3.1 ← 0.2.5 diff Feb 28, 2018
new 0.2.5 Aug 3, 2016