R Observatory: Metrics for smimodel version 0.1.3

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

smimodel

0.1.3Package record

Sparse Multiple Index Models for Nonparametric Forecasting

0packages depend

2.3Kdownloads / year

8.2%test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Nuwani PalihawadanaCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Website ↗Issues ↗

Implements a general algorithm for estimating Sparse Multiple Index (SMI) models for nonparametric forecasting and prediction. Estimation of SMI models requires the Gurobi mixed integer programming (MIP) solver via the gurobi R package. To use this functionality, the Gurobi Optimizer must be installed, and a valid license obtained and activated from https://www.gurobi.com. The gurobi R package must then be installed and configured following the instructions at https://support.gurobi.com/hc/en-us/articles/14462206790033-How-do-I-install-Gurobi-for-R. The package also includes functions for fitting nonparametric additive models with backward elimination, group-wise additive index models, and projection pursuit regression models as benchmark comparison methods. In addition, it provides tools for generating prediction intervals to quantify uncertainty in point forecasts produced by the SMI model and benchmark models, using the classical block bootstrap and a new method called conformal bootstrap, which integrates block bootstrap with split conformal prediction.

Changes in 0.1.3

Minor fixes following CRAN feedback (conditional execution of examples and Description updates).

From NEWS.md in the release

Install

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

install.packages("smimodel", 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("nuwani-palihawadana/smimodel")

Development version from nuwani-palihawadana/smimodel. 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-smimodel

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-smimodel

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-smimodel

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: 5.6 min · r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

Status changes

OK13 OK2026-08-04
NOTE12 OK, 1 NOTE2026-08-01
OK13 OK2026-06-09
ERROR12 OK, 1 ERROR2026-06-08
OK12 OK2026-04-25

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ERROR8 OK, 1 NOTE, 1 ERROR2026-04-11
NOTE5 OK, 1 NOTE2026-04-09

Advisories

none known

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Documentation

In release 0.1.3

READMEYes · 546 wordsVignettesYes · 1 · staticNEWSYes · 100% structured · mentions 0.1.3Citation fileNoWebsiteYes · pkgdown

Help pages: 67 (1 internal)includes a package overview page
Examples that run: 85%28 run in a plain check (7 of them under a condition) · 5 only when donttest examples are enabled (R CMD check --as-cran)
Exported functions with examples: 93%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 93%
Help pages citing references: 4%

Vignettes (1)

Introduction to smimodel HTML

How these are measured

Downloads

2.3K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #13,143 · ~6/day · ~189/mo

Releases R versions

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32530 days

87090 days

2.3K1 year

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Also on42 r2u

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Repository

nuwani-palihawadana/smimodel ↗Account: nuwani-palihawadana

0Stars

1Forks

2Open issues

0Open PRs

0Releases

308Commits

3Commit identities

License file reads as GPL-3.0 · 308 commits · Last activity 2026-04-02

Responsiveness

How these are sampled

PRs merged (all time): 100%
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed issues: 166
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed PRs: 0

Forks over time

2026-03-23 · 12026-07-07 · 1

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

9 development-tooling and community-health practices detected across 4 families in the upstream repository

Checks run against github.com/nuwani-palihawadana/smimodel on 2026-10-21.

Continuous integration (2)

GitHub ActionsR CMD check workflow

The R CMD check workflow runs on Linux, macOS and Windows, and on R-devel

Docs source (4)

README.Rmdpkgdown

GitHub Pages site last deployed 2026-04-02 · The repository has a site deploy workflow

pkgdown site last built 2026-04-02, before release 0.1.3 (2026-04-08)

CRAN release process (2)

cran-comments.mdCRAN-SUBMISSION

Lint, format, editor (1)

RStudio project

How this is detected·Detection ruleset v4 (2026-10-20)

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

20 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing smimodel adds 95 packages (53 with compiled code, 86 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: BH 14 MB, stringi 11 MB, ggplot2 6.0 MB.

Depends (1)

R >= 4.1.0

Imports (19)

cgaim conformalForecast dplyr furrr future generics ggplot2 gratia gtoolsMatrixmethodsmgcvpurrr ROI tibble tidyselect tidyr tsibbleutils

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (5)

gurobi knitr lubridate rmarkdown testthat

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 (2)

Nuwani Palihawadana

Xiaoqian Wang

Contributor

Releases (1)

R
R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
0.1.3Latest
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2026-04-08 · current release
R
R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11

Package metadata

First published: 2026-04-08
Total releases: 1 / 1 yrs
License: GPL (>= 3) OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 4.1.0
Download size: 245 KB

Cite

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citation("smimodel")

Format

Palihawadana, N., & Wang, X. (2026). smimodel: Sparse Multiple Index Models for Nonparametric Forecasting (Version 0.1.3) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.smimodel

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APA

Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for smimodel version 0.1.3 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-23. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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