R Observatory: Metrics for softImpute version 1.4-3

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

softImpute

1.4-3Package record

Matrix Completion via Iterative Soft-Thresholded SVD

11packages depend

37.5Kdownloads / year

–test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Trevor HastieCRAN page ↗

Iterative methods for matrix completion that use nuclear-norm regularization. There are two main approaches.The one approach uses iterative soft-thresholded svds to impute the missing values. The second approach uses alternating least squares. Both have an 'EM' flavor, in that at each iteration the matrix is completed with the current estimate. For large matrices there is a special sparse-matrix class named "Incomplete" that efficiently handles all computations. The package includes procedures for centering and scaling rows, columns or both, and for computing low-rank SVDs on large sparse centered matrices (i.e. principal components).

Install

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

install.packages("softImpute", repos = "https://cloud.r-project.org/")

Installs the current CRAN release. Prebuilt binaries on Windows and macOS.

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-softimpute

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-softImpute

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-softImpute

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: 2.9 min · r-devel-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 1.4-3

READMEYes · 5 wordsVignettesYes · 1 · dynamicNEWSNoCitation fileYes · cites a publicationWebsitenot declared in DESCRIPTION

Help pages: 19 (1 internal)includes a package overview page
Examples that run: 100%10 run in a plain check
Exported functions with examples: 50%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 50%
Help pages citing references: 26%

Vignettes (1)

An Introduction to softImpute

How these are measured

Downloads

37.5K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #2,140 · ~103/day · ~3.1K/mo

Releases R versions

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3K30 days

8.4K90 days

37.5K1 year

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How downloads are counted

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

2 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing softImpute adds no packages beyond those that come with R.

Depends (2)

Matrixmethods

Imports (0)

none

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (2)

knitr rmarkdown

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

11direct

3indirect

Imports 11

Depends, Imports or LinkingTo, most downloaded first

mashr OmicsPLS flashier TrendTM NIMAA primePCA gsbm tsensembler dbMC AdapDiscom RMCLab

How these are counted

Code & Tests

People & History

People (3)

Trevor Hastie

Author, Maintainer since 1.0 (2013)

Rahul Mazumder

Author

Balasubramanian Narasimhan

Contributor · added in 1.4-2

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Package metadata

First published: 2013-04-03
Total releases: 5 / 13 yrs
License: GPL-2 OSI
Download size: 252 KB

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citation("softImpute")

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Format

APA

Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for softImpute version 1.4-3 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-23. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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