R Observatory: Metrics for sparseVCBART version 1.0.0

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

sparseVCBART

1.0.0

Sparse Varying Coefficient BART with Global-Local Priors"

0packages depend

990downloads / year

–test coverage

13/13checks pass

Overview

About

Maintained by Sameer K. DeshpandeFirst published 2026-05-191 releasesCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗

Fits sparse linear varying coefficient models (VCMs), which assert a linear relationship between an outcome and several covariates that is allowed to change as functions of additional variables known as effect modifiers. Designed for high-dimensional settings where the number of covariates (i.e., number of slopes) is comparable to or larger than the number of observations. Approximates the coefficient functions using a version of Bayesian Additive Regression Trees that can perform global-local shrinkage. For more details see Ghosh, Bhogale, and Deshpande (2026+) doi:10.48550/arXiv.2510.08204.

Install

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

install.packages("sparseVCBART", 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("ghoshstats/sparseVCBART")

Development version from ghoshstats/sparseVCBART. 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-sparsevcbart

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-sparseVCBART

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-sparseVCBART

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

Health

CRAN checks

13OK

Slowest check: 4.7 min · r-devel-windows-x86_64

Code health

None

Tests · ratio 0.00

not tracked

Coverage

100%

Documentation · exports

2

Dependencies · direct

Check history

OK2026-08-04
13 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
NOTE2026-08-01
12 OK · 1 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
OK2026-05-20
7 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE

Documentation

READMENoVignettesNopkgdown siteNoNEWSNoCode of conductNoContributing guideNo

Examples that run: 100%
Documented parameters: 84%
Return-value docs: 100%
References docs: 25%

Downloads

990

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #12,438 · ~3/day · ~83/mo

Releases R versions

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17730 days

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Repository

GitHub ↗ ghoshstats/sparsevcbart

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Last activity 2026-05-13

Repository practices

Upstream repositoryBeta

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Checks run against github.com/ghoshstats/sparsevcbart on 2026-08-23.

Continuous integration (1)

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Dependencies

Declared dependencies

3 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Depends (0)

none

Imports (2)

RcppMASS

LinkingTo (2)

Rcpp RcppArmadillo

Suggests (0)

none

Enhances (0)

none

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Code & Tests

People & History

People (2)

Maintainer (1)

Sameer K. Deshpande

Maintainer, Author

Authors (2)

Sameer K. Deshpande

Maintainer, Author

Soham Ghosh

Author

Package Timeline

1 release. R releases are shown for context.

1.0.0Latest
2026-05-19 · current release
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R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24

Package metadata

First published: 2026-05-19
Total releases: 1 / 1 yrs
License: GPL (>= 3) OSI
Download size: 54 KB
Installed size: not tracked yet
With dependencies: not tracked yet

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("sparseVCBART")

Format

Deshpande, S. K., & Ghosh, S. (2026). sparseVCBART: Sparse Varying Coefficient BART with Global-Local Priors" (Version 1.0.0) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.sparseVCBART

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Format

APA

Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for sparseVCBART version 1.0.0 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-08-26. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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