R Observatory: Metrics for sparseR version 0.3.2

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

sparseR

0.3.2

Variable Selection under Ranked Sparsity Principles for Interactions and Polynomials

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3.1Kdownloads / year

87.9%test coverage

13/13checks pass

Overview

About

Maintained by Ryan Andrew PetersonFirst published 2022-08-177 releasesCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗

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.

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.

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).

Health

CRAN checks

13OK

Slowest check: 5.0 min · r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

Code health

Yes

Tests · ratio 0.35

87.9%

Coverage · measured lines

92%

Documentation · exports

5

Dependencies · direct

Check history

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ERROR2026-06-08
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Documentation

READMEYes · 189 wordsVignettesYes · dynamicpkgdown siteNoNEWSYes · 100% structuredCode of conductNoContributing guideNo

Examples that run: 100%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 100%
References docs: 13%

Downloads

3.1K

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Rank #16,311 · ~8/day · ~256/mo

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Repository

GitHub ↗ petersonr/sparser

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4Releases

75Commits

3Contributors

75 commits · Last activity 2025-04-14 · -16.7% stars, 30d

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Repository practices

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cran-comments.md

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README.Rmd

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Dependencies

Declared dependencies

11 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

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R >= 3.5

Imports (5)

ncvreg rlang magrittr dplyr recipes

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Ryan Andrew Peterson

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Package Timeline

7 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
0.3.2Latest
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R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11
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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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2022-11-10 · diff ↗
0.2.0
2022-08-17
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R 4.2.0 released · 2022-04-22

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
Installed size: not tracked yet
With dependencies: not tracked yet

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Format

Peterson, R. A. (2025). sparseR: Variable Selection under Ranked Sparsity Principles for Interactions and Polynomials (Version 0.3.2) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.sparseR

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Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for sparseR version 0.3.2 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-08-11. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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