R Observatory: Metrics for rags2ridges version 2.2.9

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

rags2ridges

2.2.9

Ridge Estimation of Precision Matrices from High-Dimensional Data

1packages depend

10.1Kdownloads / year

–test coverage

8/13checks pass

Overview

About

Maintained by Carel F.W. PeetersFirst published 2014-03-0717 releasesCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗

Proper L2-penalized maximum likelihood estimators for precision matrices and supporting functions to employ these estimators in a graphical modeling setting. For details, see Peeters, Bilgrau, & van Wieringen (2022) doi:10.18637/jss.v102.i04 and associated publications.

Install

R (CRAN)pak (dev)Ubuntu (r2u)

install.packages("rags2ridges", 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("CFWP/rags2ridges")

Development version from CFWP/rags2ridges. 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-rags2ridges

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

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: 7.4 min · r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

Code health

Yes

Tests · ratio 0.13

not tracked

Coverage

100%

Documentation · exports

18

Dependencies · direct

Check history

NOTE2026-07-16
11 OK · 2 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
OK2026-06-09
13 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
ERROR2026-06-08
12 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 1 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
OK2026-04-25
12 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
NOTE2026-04-22
12 OK · 2 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE

Show 2 earlier snapshots

ERROR2026-04-18
11 OK · 2 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 1 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
NOTE2026-03-10
12 OK · 2 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE

Documentation

READMEYes · 379 wordsVignettesYes · dynamicpkgdown siteNoNEWSYes · 100% structuredCode of conductNoContributing guideNo

Examples that run: 91%
Documented parameters: 96%
Return-value docs: 94%
References docs: 54%

Downloads

10.1K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #4,362 · ~28/day · ~842/mo

Releases R versions

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37530 days

1.8K90 days

10.1K1 year

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Also on407 r2u

Repository

GitHub ↗ cfwp/rags2ridges

8Stars

3Forks

21Open issues

1Open PRs

16Releases

778Commits

4Contributors

cranrc-plus-plusnetworksciencestatisticsmachine-learninggraphical-models

778 commits · Last activity 2025-12-01

Stars over time

2023-11-23 · 82026-07-07 · 8

Repository practices

Upstream repositoryBeta

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

Checks run against github.com/cfwp/rags2ridges on 2026-08-23.

Continuous integration (1)

GitHub Actions

Lint, format, editor (1)

RStudio project

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

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

19 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Depends (1)

R >= 2.15.1

Imports (18)

igraphstatsmethodsexpm reshape ggplot2 Hmisc fdrtool snowfall sfsmiscutilsgrDevicesgraphicsgRbase RBGL graph Rcpp RSpectra

LinkingTo (2)

Rcpp RcppArmadillo

Suggests (4)

KEGGgraph testthat knitr rmarkdown

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

1direct

0indirect

porridge

Code & Tests

Datasets

People & History

People (3)

Maintainer (1)

Carel F.W. Peeters

Author, Maintainer, Copyright holder

Authors (3)

Carel F.W. Peeters

Author, Maintainer, Copyright holder

Anders Ellern Bilgrau

Author, Copyright holder · added in 2.0

Wessel N. van Wieringen

Author

Copyright holders (2)

Carel F.W. Peeters

Author, Maintainer, Copyright holder

Anders Ellern Bilgrau

Author, Copyright holder · added in 2.0

Listed in earlier versions (3)

Bilgrau

no longer listed · 2.2.5 to 2.2.9

Peeters

no longer listed · 2.2.5 to 2.2.9

van Wieringen

no longer listed · 2.2.5 to 2.2.9

Package Timeline

17 releases. Pick two to compare their code metrics. R releases are shown for context.

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R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
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R 4.4.0 released · 2024-04-24
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R 4.3.0 released · 2023-04-21
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R 4.2.0 released · 2022-04-22
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R 4.1.0 released · 2021-05-18
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R 4.0.0 released · 2020-04-24
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R 3.6.0 released · 2019-04-26

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R 3.5.0 released · 2018-04-23
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R 3.4.0 released · 2017-04-21
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R 3.3.0 released · 2016-05-03
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R 3.2.0 released · 2015-04-16
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R 3.1.0 released · 2014-04-10
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R 3.0.0 released · 2013-04-03

Package metadata

First published: 2014-03-07
Total releases: 17 / 12 yrs
License: GPL (>= 2) OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 2.15.1
Bundled data: 221 KB / 1 file
Download size: 491 KB
Installed size: not tracked yet
With dependencies: not tracked yet

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("rags2ridges")

Format

Peeters, C. F. W., Bilgrau, A. E., & van Wieringen, W. N. (2025). rags2ridges: Ridge Estimation of Precision Matrices from High-Dimensional Data (Version 2.2.9) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.rags2ridges

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Format

APA

Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for rags2ridges version 2.2.9 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-08-23. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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