R Observatory: Metrics for spboost version 0.7.0

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

spboost

0.7.0

Gradient Boosting for Nonlinear Spatial Autoregressive Models

0packages depend

527downloads / year

28.3%test coverage

13/13checks pass

Overview

About

Maintained by Ghislain GeniauxFirst published 2026-06-081 releasesCRAN page ↗

Flexible nonlinear extension of spatial autoregressive (SAR), spatial error (SEM), and spatial autoregressive with autoregressive disturbances (SARAR) models with multiple regression engines (generalized additive models ('mgcv'), gradient boosting ('mboost'), multivariate adaptive regression splines ('earth'), and 'xgboost') and two families of spatial-parameter estimators: maximum likelihood and the determinant-free Closed-Form Estimator of Smirnov (2020) doi:10.1111/gean.12268. See Geniaux G. (2026). "Flexible nonlinear spatial autoregressive models: a gradient boosting approach with closed-form estimation." Presented at Spatial Econometrics World Congress (SEA/SEW 2026, Paris), unpublished.

Install

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

install.packages("spboost", 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-spboost

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-spboost

RPMs from the iucar/cran COPR, rebuilt from CRAN.

For install.packages() integration in R, also: sudo dnf install R-CoprManager

Health

CRAN checks

13OK

Slowest check: 12.8 min · r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

Code health

Yes

Tests · ratio 0.08

28.3%

Coverage · measured lines

100%

Documentation · exports

15

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
OK2026-06-09
7 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE

Documentation

READMENoVignettesYes · dynamicpkgdown siteNoNEWSNoCode of conductNoContributing guideNo

Examples that run: 100%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 100%
References docs: 0%

Downloads

527

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #20,948 · ~1/day · ~44/mo

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Dependencies

Declared dependencies

20 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Depends (5)

Matrixmboostmgcvmethodsmgwrsar

Imports (10)

Rcpp sfMASSdata.table xgboost caret doParallel foreach nabor earth

LinkingTo (2)

RcppEigen Rcpp

Suggests (7)

blockCV knitr rmarkdown RSpectra spatialreg spdep testthat

Enhances (0)

none

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Reverse dependencies

0direct

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Code & Tests

People & History

People (1)

Maintainer (1)

Ghislain Geniaux

Author, Maintainer

Authors (1)

Ghislain Geniaux

Author, Maintainer

Package Timeline

1 release. R releases are shown for context.

0.7.0Latest
2026-06-08 · current release
R
R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24

Package metadata

First published: 2026-06-08
Total releases: 1 / 1 yrs
License: GPL (>= 2) OSI
Download size: 422 KB
Installed size: not tracked yet
With dependencies: not tracked yet

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citation("spboost")

Format

Geniaux, G. (2026). spboost: Gradient Boosting for Nonlinear Spatial Autoregressive Models (Version 0.7.0) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.spboost

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Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for spboost version 0.7.0 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-08-16. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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