sparselink

1.0.0

Sparse Regression for Related Problems

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1.8Kdownloads / year

20.7%test coverage

13/13checks pass

Overview

About

Maintained by Armin RauschenbergerFirst published 2025-06-031 releasesCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗

Estimates sparse regression models (i.e., with few non-zero coefficients) in high-dimensional multi-task learning and transfer learning settings, as proposed by Rauschenberger et al. (2025) https://orbilu.uni.lu/handle/10993/63425.

Install

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

install.packages("sparselink", 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("rauschenberger/sparselink")

Development version from rauschenberger/sparselink. 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-sparselink

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

# 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-sparselink

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

Health

CRAN checks

13OK

Slowest check: 2.7 min · r-devel-linux-x86_64-fedora-clang

Code health

Yes

Tests · ratio 0.12

20.7%

Coverage · measured lines

100%

Documentation · exports

Dependencies · direct

Check history

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

Documentation

READMEYes · 327 wordsVignettesYes · dynamicpkgdown siteNoNEWSYes · 100% structuredCode of conductNoContributing guideNo

Examples that run: 100%
Documented parameters: 98%
Return-value docs: 100%
References docs: 23%

Downloads

1.8K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #22,197 · ~5/day · ~147/mo

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Repository

GitHub ↗ rauschenberger/sparselink

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307 commits · Last activity 2025-07-18 · 0% stars, 30d

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Repository practices

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cran-comments.md

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Dependencies

Declared dependencies

10 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Depends (1)

R >= 3.0.0

Imports (6)

glmnet pROCstatsmvtnorm spls xrnet

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (5)

knitr testthat remotes glmtrans rmarkdown

Enhances (0)

none

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Code & Tests

People & History

People (1)

Maintainer (1)

Armin Rauschenberger

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Authors (1)

Armin Rauschenberger

Author, Maintainer

Package Timeline

1 release. R releases are shown for context.

R
R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
1.0.0Latest
2026-03-10 · current release
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R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11

Package metadata

First published: 2025-06-03
Total releases: 1 / 1 yrs
License: MIT + file LICENSE OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 3.0.0
Download size: 99 KB
Installed size: not tracked yet
With dependencies: not tracked yet

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