R Observatory: Metrics for sparsegl version 1.1.1

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

sparsegl

1.1.1

Sparse Group Lasso

1packages depend

8.7Kdownloads / year

84.7%test coverage

13/13checks pass

Overview

About

Maintained by Daniel J. McDonaldFirst published 2022-03-078 releasesCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗

Efficient implementation of sparse group lasso with optional bound constraints on the coefficients; see doi:10.18637/jss.v110.i06. It supports the use of a sparse design matrix as well as returning coefficient estimates in a sparse matrix. Furthermore, it correctly calculates the degrees of freedom to allow for information criteria rather than cross-validation with very large data. Finally, the interface to compiled code avoids unnecessary copies and allows for the use of long integers.

Install

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

install.packages("sparsegl", 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("dajmcdon/sparsegl")

Development version from dajmcdon/sparsegl. 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-sparsegl

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-sparsegl

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-sparsegl

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

Health

CRAN checks

13OK

Slowest check: 6.4 min · r-devel-windows-x86_64

Code health

Yes

Tests · ratio 0.34

84.7%

Coverage · measured lines

93%

Documentation · exports

9

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
OK2026-03-10
14 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE

Documentation

READMEYes · 181 wordsVignettesYes · dynamicpkgdown siteNoNEWSYes · 100% structuredCode of conductNoContributing guideNo

Examples that run: 91%
Documented parameters: 96%
Return-value docs: 100%
References docs: 29%

Downloads

8.7K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #9,522 · ~24/day · ~722/mo

Releases R versions

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20330 days

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8.7K1 year

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Repository

GitHub ↗ dajmcdon/sparsegl

17Stars

8Forks

3Open issues

0Open PRs

5Releases

385Commits

6Contributors

385 commits · Last activity 2026-01-10

Stars over time

2025-02-19 · 172026-07-07 · 17

Repository practices

Upstream repositoryBeta

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

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Continuous integration (1)

GitHub Actions

Reproducibility and dev environment (1)

data-raw/

CRAN release process (2)

cran-comments.mdCRAN-SUBMISSION

Docs source (1)

README.Rmd

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Governance and community (1)

CODEOWNERS

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Dependencies

Declared dependencies

14 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Depends (1)

R >= 3.5

Imports (9)

cli dotCall64 ggplot2 magrittrMatrixmethodsrlang RSpectra tidyr

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (8)

dplyr gglasso glmnet knitr markdown rmarkdownsplinestestthat

Enhances (0)

none

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Reverse dependencies

1direct

0indirect

absorber

Code & Tests

Datasets

People & History

People (14)

Maintainer (1)

Daniel J. McDonald

Author, Maintainer

Authors (4)

Daniel J. McDonald

Author, Maintainer

Aaron Cohen

Author

Xiaoxuan Liang

Author

Anibal Solón Heinsfeld

Author · added in 1.0.0

Contributors (10)

Jerome Friedman

Contributor · added in 1.0.0

Trevor Hastie

Contributor · added in 1.0.0

Balasubramanian Narasimhan

Contributor · added in 1.0.0

Junyang Qian

Contributor · added in 1.0.0

Noah Simon

Contributor · added in 1.0.0

Kenneth Tay

Contributor · added in 1.0.0

Rob Tibshirani

Contributor · added in 1.0.0

James Yang

Contributor · added in 1.0.0

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Yi Yang

Contributor · added in 1.0.0

Hui Zou

Contributor · added in 1.0.0

Package Timeline

8 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
1.1.1Latest
2024-08-25 · current release · diff ↗
1.1.0
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R 4.4.0 released · 2024-04-24
1.0.2
2023-09-25 · diff ↗
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R 4.3.0 released · 2023-04-21
1.0.1
2023-01-27 · diff ↗
1.0.0
2022-11-29 · diff ↗
0.5.0
2022-09-22 · diff ↗
0.4.0
2022-09-05 · diff ↗
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R 4.2.0 released · 2022-04-22
0.3.0
2022-03-07
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R 4.1.0 released · 2021-05-18

Package metadata

First published: 2022-03-07
Total releases: 8 / 4 yrs
License: MIT + file LICENSE OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 3.5
Bundled data: 200 KB / 1 file
Download size: 587 KB
Installed size: not tracked yet
With dependencies: not tracked yet

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McDonald, D. J., Cohen, A., Friedman, J., Hastie, T., Liang, X., Narasimhan, B., Qian, J., Simon, N., Solón Heinsfeld, A., Tay, K., Tibshirani, R., Yang, J., Yang, Y., & Zou, H. (2024). sparsegl: Sparse Group Lasso (Version 1.1.1) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.sparsegl

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Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for sparsegl version 1.1.1 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-08-16. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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