R Observatory: Metrics for sparseR version 0.3.2

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

sparseR

0.3.2Package record

Variable Selection under Ranked Sparsity Principles for Interactions and Polynomials

0packages depend

3.3Kdownloads / year

87.9%test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Ryan Andrew PetersonCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Website ↗

An implementation of ranked sparsity methods, including penalized regression methods such as the sparsity-ranked lasso, its non-convex alternatives, and elastic net, as well as the sparsity-ranked Bayesian Information Criterion. As described in Peterson and Cavanaugh (2022) doi:10.1007/s10182-021-00431-7, ranked sparsity is a philosophy with methods primarily useful for variable selection in the presence of prior informational asymmetry, which occurs in the context of trying to perform variable selection in the presence of interactions and/or polynomials. Ultimately, this package attempts to facilitate dealing with cumbersome interactions and polynomials while not avoiding them entirely. Typically, models selected under ranked sparsity principles will also be more transparent, having fewer falsely selected interactions and polynomials than other methods.

Changes in 0.3.2

Fixed issue in CRAN CMD CHECK on Linux caused by setting an attribute on a built-in

From NEWS.md in the release

Install

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

install.packages("sparseR", 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("petersonR/sparseR")

Development version from petersonR/sparseR. 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-sparser

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-sparseR

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-sparseR

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: 4.9 min · r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

Status changes

OK13 OK2026-09-18
ERROR12 OK, 1 ERROR2026-09-12
OK13 OK2026-08-04
NOTE12 OK, 1 NOTE2026-08-01
OK13 OK2026-06-09

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ERROR12 OK, 1 ERROR2026-06-08
OK14 OK2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 0.3.2

READMEYes · 189 wordsVignettesYes · 1 · dynamicNEWSYes · 100% structured · mentions 0.3.2Citation fileYes · cites a publicationWebsiteYes · pkgdown

Help pages: 16 (1 internal)includes a package overview page
Examples that run: 100%1 run in a plain check
Exported functions with examples: 10%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 100%
Help pages citing references: 13%

Vignettes (1)

Using the `sparseR` package

How these are measured

Downloads

3.3K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #17,120 · ~9/day · ~273/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

27630 days

73890 days

3.3K1 year

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Also on70 r2u4 autocran

How downloads are counted

Repository

petersonr/sparser ↗Account: petersonR

5Stars

3Forks

0Open issues

0Open PRs

4Releases

75Commits

3Commit identities

75 commits · Last activity 2025-04-14 · 0% stars, 30d

Responsiveness

How these are sampled

PRs merged (all time): 100%
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed issues: 19
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed PRs: 6

Stars over time

2024-09-24 · 52026-07-25 · 5

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

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

Checks run against github.com/petersonr/sparser on 2026-10-18.

Continuous integration (2)

GitHub ActionsR CMD check workflow

The R CMD check workflow runs on Linux

Docs source (4)

README.Rmdpkgdown

GitHub Pages site last deployed 2025-04-14 · The repository has a site deploy workflow

pkgdown site last built 2025-04-14

Coverage (1)

Coverage reporting (Codecov)

CRAN release process (1)

cran-comments.md

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Lint, format, editor (1)

RStudio project

How this is detected·Detection ruleset v3 (2026-09-26)

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

11 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing sparseR adds 55 packages (28 with compiled code, 44 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: stringi 11 MB, ggplot2 6.0 MB, data.table 5.7 MB.

Depends (1)

R >= 3.5

Imports (5)

ncvreg rlang magrittr dplyr recipes

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (8)

survivalknitr rmarkdown kableExtra testthat covr modeldataMASS

Enhances (0)

none

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Reverse dependencies

0direct

0indirect

Nothing depends on this yet.

How these are counted

Code & Tests

Datasets

People & History

People (1)

Ryan Andrew Peterson

Author, Maintainer since 0.2.0 (2022)

Releases (7)

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Package metadata

First published: 2022-08-17
Total releases: 7 / 4 yrs
License: GPL-3 OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 3.5
Bundled data: 44 KB / 3 files
Download size: 1.8 MB

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' entry:

citation("sparseR")

The package provides a citation file, so citation() returns the authors' own entry.

It points to 10.1007/s10182-021-00431-7.

Cite the R Observatory

For a number measured here: a download total, a coverage figure, an archival date.

Format

APA

Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for sparseR version 0.3.2 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-21. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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