R Observatory: Metrics for varGuid version 0.1.5

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

varGuid

0.1.5

Variance-Guided Regression Improving Upon OLS and ANOVA

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863downloads / year

–test coverage

13/13checks pass

Overview

About

Maintained by Min LuFirst published 2026-05-292 releasesCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗

Fits variance-guided linear regression models that provide an alternative to ordinary least squares (OLS) for general linear-model design matrices, including ANOVA-style encodings. The methods use an iteratively reweighted least squares estimator or an iteratively reweighted lasso estimator and implement the global linear mean-variance model from the associated 2026 Statistics in Medicine article doi:10.1002/sim.70632. Under the assumptions in that paper, the estimator matches the homoscedastic baseline in population predictive quasi-risk when variance is constant and improves on it when the variance depends on covariates. The grouping-based nonlinear prediction extension from Section 3 is available in the development version on GitHub.

Install

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

install.packages("varGuid", 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("luminwin/varGuid")

Development version from luminwin/varGuid. 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-varguid

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-varGuid

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-varGuid

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

Health

CRAN checks

13OK

Slowest check: 1.6 min · r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

Code health

None

Tests · ratio 0.00

not tracked

Coverage

100%

Documentation · exports

3

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
13 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
NOTE2026-06-08
12 OK · 1 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
OK2026-05-30
8 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE

Documentation

READMEYes · 118 wordsVignettesNopkgdown siteNoNEWSNoCode of conductNoContributing guideNo

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

Downloads

863

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #11,596 · ~2/day · ~72/mo

Releases R versions

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18430 days

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Repository

GitHub ↗ luminwin/varguid

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Last activity 2026-06-27

Repository practices

Upstream repositoryBeta

Checks run against github.com/luminwin/varguid on 2026-08-23.

No development-tooling practices detected in the upstream repository.

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Dependencies

Declared dependencies

3 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Depends (1)

R >= 3.5.0

Imports (3)

glmnet lmtest sandwich

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (0)

none

Enhances (0)

none

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Code & Tests

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People & History

People (2)

Maintainer (1)

Min Lu

Author, Maintainer

Authors (2)

Min Lu

Author, Maintainer

Sibei Liu

Author

Package Timeline

2 releases. Pick two to compare their code metrics. R releases are shown for context.

0.1.5Latest
2026-06-19 · current release · diff ↗
0.1.4
2026-05-29
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R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24

Package metadata

First published: 2026-05-29
Total releases: 2 / 1 yrs
License: GPL (>= 2) OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 3.5.0
Bundled data: 60 KB / 1 file
Download size: 67 KB
Installed size: not tracked yet
With dependencies: not tracked yet

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("varGuid")

Format

Lu, M., & Liu, S. (2026). varGuid: Variance-Guided Regression Improving Upon OLS and ANOVA (Version 0.1.5) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.varGuid

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Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for varGuid version 0.1.5 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-08-25. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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