R Observatory: Metrics for xrnet version 1.0.1

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

xrnet

1.0.1Package record

Hierarchical Regularized Regression

1packages dependsuggested by 1

3Kdownloads / year

85.6%test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Garrett WeaverCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Website ↗Issues ↗

Fits hierarchical regularized regression models to incorporate potentially informative external data, Weaver and Lewinger (2019) doi:10.21105/joss.01761. Utilizes coordinate descent to efficiently fit regularized regression models both with and without external information with the most common penalties used in practice (i.e. ridge, lasso, elastic net). Support for standard R matrices, sparse matrices and big.matrix objects.

Changes in 1.0.1

Updates author metadata.

From NEWS.md in the release

Install

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

install.packages("xrnet", 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("USCbiostats/xrnet")

Development version from USCbiostats/xrnet. 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-xrnet

Fast Ubuntu binaries via r2u (no compilation). The cranapt setup runs once and is skipped when it is already enabled. We list this channel from recorded r2u download activity rather than from a live index of the repository, so treat it as last known rather than guaranteed.

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-xrnet

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-xrnet

RPMs auto-built from CRAN on openSUSE OBS (Tumbleweed). We list this channel from recorded autoCRAN download activity rather than from a live index of the repository, so treat it as last known rather than guaranteed.

Health

CRAN checks

13OK

CRAN check page ↗

Slowest check: 4.4 min · r-devel-windows-x86_64

Status changes

OK13 OK2026-08-04
NOTE12 OK, 1 NOTE2026-08-01
OK12 OK2026-04-25
NOTE12 OK, 2 NOTE2026-04-22
ERROR11 OK, 2 NOTE, 1 ERROR2026-04-18

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NOTE12 OK, 2 NOTE2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 1.0.1

READMEYes · 1,068 wordsVignettesNoNEWSYes · 100% structured · mentions 1.0.1Citation fileNoWebsiteYes · pkgdown

Description cites a JOSS paper

Help pages: 15
Examples that run: 100%8 run in a plain check
Exported functions with examples: 43%
Documented parameters: 96%
Return-value docs: 100%
Help pages citing references: 7%

How these are measured

Downloads

3K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #13,913 · ~8/day · ~247/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

28230 days

84890 days

3K1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on365 r2u4 autocran

How downloads are counted

Repository

uscbiostats/xrnet ↗Organization: USCbiostats

10Stars

3Forks

2Open issues

0Open PRs

7Releases

405Commits

8Commit identities

405 commits · Last activity 2025-12-17

Responsiveness

How these are sampled

PRs merged (all time): 85%
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed issues: 32
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed PRs: 0

Stars over time

2020-12-04 · 102026-07-07 · 10

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

13 development-tooling and community-health practices detected across 7 families in the upstream repository

Checks run against github.com/uscbiostats/xrnet on 2026-10-21.

Continuous integration (2)

GitHub ActionsR CMD check workflow

The R CMD check workflow runs on Linux, macOS and Windows, and on R-devel

Governance and community (1)

Code of conduct

Docs source (4)

README.Rmdpkgdown

GitHub Pages site last deployed 2025-12-17 · The repository has a site deploy workflow

pkgdown site last built 2025-12-17, before release 1.0.1 (2025-12-18)

Coverage (1)

Coverage reporting (Codecov)

Show all practicesHide 3 practices

CRAN release process (3)

cran-comments.mdrevdep/CRAN-SUBMISSION

Lint, format, editor (1)

RStudio project

Git structural (1)

.gitattributes

How this is detected·Detection ruleset v4 (2026-10-20)

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

11 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing xrnet adds 8 packages (4 with compiled code, 18 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: BH 14 MB, Rcpp 1.8 MB, RcppEigen 1.7 MB.

Depends (1)

R >= 4.0

Imports (4)

Rcpp foreach bigmemorymethods

LinkingTo (4)

Rcpp RcppEigen BH bigmemory

Suggests (5)

knitr rmarkdown testthatMatrixdoParallel

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

1direct

0indirect

Imports 1

Suggested by 1

Depends, Imports or LinkingTo, most downloaded first

sparselink

Suggests, most downloaded first

transreg

How these are counted

Code & Tests

Datasets

People & History

People (3)

Garrett Weaver

Author, Maintainer since 0.1.6 (2020)

Dixin Shen

Author · added in 1.0.0

Juan Pablo Lewinger

Contributor, Thesis advisor

Releases (4)

Pick two releases to compare their code metrics.

R
R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
1.0.1Latest
record
2025-12-18 · current release · diff ↗
R
R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11
unarchivedReturned to CRAN
2024-07-16
1.0.0
record
2024-07-16 · diff ↗ ·
removed 1 export
xrnet.control

added 1 export
xrnet_control
archivedRemoved from CRAN
2024-07-02
issues were not corrected in time
R
R 4.4.0 released · 2024-04-24
R
R 4.3.0 released · 2023-04-21
R
R 4.2.0 released · 2022-04-22
R
R 4.1.0 released · 2021-05-18
R
R 4.0.0 released · 2020-04-24
0.1.7
record
2020-03-01 · diff ↗
0.1.6
record
2020-02-28
R
R 3.6.0 released · 2019-04-26

Package metadata

First published: 2020-02-28
Total releases: 4 / 6 yrs
License: GPL-2 OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 4.0
Bundled data: 79 KB / 1 file
Download size: 360 KB

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("xrnet")

Format

Weaver, G., Lewinger, J. P., & Shen, D. (2025). xrnet: Hierarchical Regularized Regression (Version 1.0.1) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.xrnet

This package has no citation file, so citation() returns this entry built from DESCRIPTION.

Cite the R Observatory

For a number measured here: a download total, a coverage figure, an archival date.

Format

APA

Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for xrnet version 1.0.1 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-24. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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