R Observatory: Metrics for sparseSEM version 4.1

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

sparseSEM

4.1

Elastic Net Penalized Maximum Likelihood for Structural Equation Models with Network GPT Framework

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6.5Kdownloads / year

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Overview

About

Maintained by Anhui HuangFirst published 2014-08-267 releasesCRAN page ↗

Provides elastic net penalized maximum likelihood estimator for structural equation models (SEM). The package implements `lasso` and `elastic net` (l1/l2) penalized SEM and estimates the model parameters with an efficient block coordinate ascent algorithm that maximizes the penalized likelihood of the SEM. Hyperparameters are inferred from cross-validation (CV). A Stability Selection (STS) function is also available to provide accurate causal effect selection. The software achieves high accuracy performance through a `Network Generative Pre-trained Transformer` (Network GPT) Framework with two steps: 1) pre-trains the model to generate a complete (fully connected) graph; and 2) uses the complete graph as the initial state to fit the `elastic net` penalized SEM.

Install

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

install.packages("sparseSEM", 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-sparsesem

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-sparseSEM

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-sparseSEM

RPMs auto-built from CRAN on openSUSE OBS (Tumbleweed).

Health

CRAN checks

13OK

Slowest check: 4.4 min · r-release-macos-x86_64

Code health

None

Tests · ratio 0.00

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Coverage

1

Dependencies · direct

Check history

OK2026-08-04
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NOTE2026-08-01
12 OK · 1 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
OK2026-03-10
14 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE

Documentation

READMEYes · 315 wordsVignettesYes · dynamicpkgdown siteNoNEWSNoCode of conductNoContributing guideNo

Examples that run: 100%
Documented parameters: not tracked
Return-value docs: not tracked
References docs: 92%

Downloads

6.5K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #6,759 · ~18/day · ~540/mo

Releases R versions

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Dependencies

Declared dependencies

2 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Depends (1)

R >= 3.5.0

Imports (1)

parallel

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (2)

knitr plot.matrix

Enhances (0)

none

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Reverse dependencies

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Nothing depends on this yet.

Code & Tests

Datasets

People & History

People (1)

Maintainer (1)

Anhui Huang

Author, Contributor, Maintainer · added in 2.5

Authors (1)

Anhui Huang

Author, Contributor, Maintainer · added in 2.5

Contributors (1)

Anhui Huang

Author, Contributor, Maintainer · added in 2.5

Listed in earlier versions (1)

Anhui Huang; Xiaodong Cai

no longer listed · 2.3

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
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R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11
4.1Latest
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R 4.4.0 released · 2024-04-24
4.0
2023-08-09 · diff ↗
3.8-2
2023-06-11 · diff ↗
3.8-1
2023-05-04 · diff ↗
3.8
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unarchivedReturned to CRAN
2023-04-21
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R 4.3.0 released · 2023-04-21
archivedRemoved from CRAN
2022-05-07
installation issues were not corrected in time
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R 4.2.0 released · 2022-04-22
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R 4.1.0 released · 2021-05-18
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R 4.0.0 released · 2020-04-24
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R 3.6.0 released · 2019-04-26
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R 3.5.0 released · 2018-04-23

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R 3.4.0 released · 2017-04-21
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R 3.2.0 released · 2015-04-16
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R 3.1.0 released · 2014-04-10

Package metadata

First published: 2014-08-26
Total releases: 7 / 12 yrs
License: GPL
Minimum R: ≥ 3.5.0
Bundled data: 860 KB / 5 files
Download size: 4.5 MB
Installed size: not tracked yet
With dependencies: not tracked yet

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Format

Huang, A. (2024). sparseSEM: Elastic Net Penalized Maximum Likelihood for Structural Equation Models with Network GPT Framework (Version 4.1) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.sparseSEM

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Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for sparseSEM version 4.1 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-08-26. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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