R Observatory: Metrics for stabs version 0.7-1

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

stabs

0.7-1

Stability Selection with Error Control

11packages depend

95.4Kdownloads / year

–test coverage

13/13checks pass

Overview

About

Maintained by Benjamin HofnerFirst published 2014-10-027 releasesCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗

Resampling procedures to assess the stability of selected variables with additional finite sample error control for high-dimensional variable selection procedures such as Lasso or boosting. Both, standard stability selection (Meinshausen & Buhlmann, 2010, doi:10.1111/j.1467-9868.2010.00740.x) and complementary pairs stability selection with improved error bounds (Shah & Samworth, 2013, doi:10.1111/j.1467-9868.2011.01034.x) are implemented. The package can be combined with arbitrary user specified variable selection approaches.

Install

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

install.packages("stabs", 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("hofnerb/stabs")

Development version from hofnerb/stabs. 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-stabs

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-stabs

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-stabs

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

Health

CRAN checks

13OK

Slowest check: 2.2 min · r-oldrel-macos-x86_64

Code health

None

Tests · ratio 0.00

not tracked

Coverage

100%

Documentation · exports

6

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
OK2026-06-08
13 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
ERROR2026-06-07
12 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 1 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
OK2026-03-10
14 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE

Documentation

READMEYes · 346 wordsVignettesYes · dynamicpkgdown siteNoNEWSNoCode of conductNoContributing guideNo

Examples that run: 100%
Documented parameters: 83%
Return-value docs: 80%
References docs: 50%

Downloads

95.4K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #1,564 · ~261/day · ~8K/mo

Releases R versions

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4.8K30 days

16K90 days

95.4K1 year

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Repository

GitHub ↗ hofnerb/stabs

27Stars

10Forks

6Open issues

1Open PRs

0Releases

146Commits

6Contributors

stability-selectioncranr-packager-languagevariable-selectionvariable-importancemachine-learningresampling

146 commits · Last activity 2026-01-30 · 0% stars, 30d

Stars over time

2024-08-15 · 262026-07-07 · 27

Repository practices

Upstream repositoryBeta

3 development-tooling and community-health practices detected across 2 families in the upstream repository

Checks run against github.com/hofnerb/stabs on 2026-08-23.

Continuous integration (2)

Travis CIAppVeyor

Git structural (1)

.gitattributes

How this is detected·Detection ruleset v1 (2026-07-18)

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

9 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Depends (4)

R >= 2.14.0methodsstatsparallel

Imports (3)

graphicsgrDevicesutils

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (9)

glmnet lars mboost gamboostLSS TH.data hdi testthat knitr rmarkdown

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

11direct

19indirect

boostrq gamboostLSS mboost CRE DIFboost FDboost highMLR mermboost SelectBoost.FDA flevr knockoff

Code & Tests

People & History

People (2)

Maintainer (1)

Benjamin Hofner

Author, Maintainer

Authors (2)

Benjamin Hofner

Author, Maintainer

Torsten Hothorn

Author

Package Timeline

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Package metadata

First published: 2014-10-02
Total releases: 7 / 12 yrs
License: GPL-2 OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 2.14.0
Download size: 63 KB
Installed size: not tracked yet
With dependencies: not tracked yet

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Machine Learning & Statistical Learning

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Format

Hofner, B., & Hothorn, T. (2026). stabs: Stability Selection with Error Control (Version 0.7-1) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.stabs

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Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for stabs version 0.7-1 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-08-25. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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