R Observatory: Metrics for smoothic version 1.2.1

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

smoothic

1.2.1Package record

Variable Selection Using a Smooth Information Criterion

0packages depend

6.3Kdownloads / year

–test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Meadhbh O'NeillCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Website ↗Issues ↗

Implementation of the SIC epsilon-telescope method, either using single or distributional (multiparameter) regression. Includes classical regression with normally distributed errors and robust regression, where the errors are from the Laplace distribution. The "smooth generalized normal distribution" is used, where the estimation of an additional shape parameter allows the user to move smoothly between both types of regression. See O'Neill and Burke (2022) "Robust Distributional Regression with Automatic Variable Selection" for more details. doi:10.48550/arXiv.2212.07317. This package also contains the data analyses from O'Neill and Burke (2023). "Variable selection using a smooth information criterion for distributional regression models". doi:10.1007/s11222-023-10204-8.

Changes in 1.2.1

fix Rd \link{} cross-references for new CRAN HTML docs
remove custom domain from description

From NEWS.md in the release

Install

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

install.packages("smoothic", 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("meadhbh-oneill/smoothic")

Development version from meadhbh-oneill/smoothic. 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-smoothic

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-smoothic

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-smoothic

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: 3.3 min · r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

Status changes

OK13 OK2026-08-04
NOTE12 OK, 1 NOTE2026-08-01
OK14 OK2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

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Documentation

In release 1.2.1

READMEYes · 205 wordsVignettesYes · 1 · dynamicNEWSYes · 100% structured · mentions 1.2.1Citation fileNoWebsiteYes · pkgdown

Help pages: 11
Examples that run: 100%5 run in a plain check
Exported functions with examples: 100%
Documented parameters: 98%
Return-value docs: 100%
Help pages citing references: 64%

Vignettes (1)

Smooth Generalized Normal Distribution HTML

How these are measured

Downloads

6.3K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #9,245 · ~17/day · ~525/mo

Releases R versions

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39230 days

1K90 days

6.3K1 year

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Repository

meadhbh-oneill/smoothic ↗Account: meadhbh-oneill

1Stars

0Forks

0Open issues

0Open PRs

4Releases

141Commits

1Commit identities

141 commits · Last activity 2025-09-16

Responsiveness

not measured

Releases over time

2023-08-22 · 42026-07-07 · 4

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

8 development-tooling and community-health practices detected across 5 families in the upstream repository

Checks run against github.com/meadhbh-oneill/smoothic on 2026-10-18.

Continuous integration (1)

GitHub Actions

Docs source (3)

pkgdown

GitHub Pages site last deployed 2025-09-16 · The repository has a site deploy workflow

pkgdown site last built 2025-09-16

Reproducibility and dev environment (1)

data-raw/

CRAN release process (2)

cran-comments.mdCRAN-SUBMISSION

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Lint, format, editor (1)

RStudio project

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Dependencies

Declared dependencies

12 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing smoothic adds 36 packages (18 with compiled code, 36 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: stringi 11 MB, ggplot2 6.0 MB, data.table 5.7 MB.

Depends (1)

R >= 3.5.0

Imports (11)

data.table dplyr ggplot2MASSnumDeriv purrr rlang stringr tibble tidyr toOrdinal

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (2)

knitr rmarkdown

Enhances (0)

none

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Reverse dependencies

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Nothing depends on this yet.

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People & History

People (2)

Meadhbh O'Neill

Author, Maintainer since 0.1.0 (2021)

Kevin Burke

Author

Releases (5)

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Package metadata

First published: 2021-10-27
Total releases: 5 / 5 yrs
License: GPL-3 OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 3.5.0
Bundled data: 45 KB / 6 files
Download size: 184 KB

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("smoothic")

Format

O'Neill, M., & Burke, K. (2025). smoothic: Variable Selection Using a Smooth Information Criterion (Version 1.2.1) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.smoothic

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Format

APA

Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for smoothic version 1.2.1 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-21. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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