R Observatory: Metrics for BsplineQuantReg version 0.2.6

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

BsplineQuantReg

0.2.6Package record

'Constrained Quantile Regression with B-Splines'

1packages depend

1.4Kdownloads / year

–test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Alexandre AbbesCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Issues ↗

Quantile regression with B-splines under shape constraints. The initial version with cubic splines, augmented with splines of degree 1 to 4, is now able to handle all degrees (degree >= 6 without any constraint). Constraints for degrees 3 (monotone), 4 (monotone and convex) and 5 (convex) use the Karlin-Studden SOCP characterization for the sign of the polynomial (Karlin and Studden, 1966; Papp and Alizadeh, 2014), while other constraints are added as linear problems. The method for monotone constraints of cubic splines is described in Abbes (2025) doi:10.5281/zenodo.17427913. For quartic splines, see other references given in the README. All B-spline and polynomial functions have been rewritten for consistency. This package provides a fully independent original B-spline library for conversion between PP-form and B-spline representation, evaluation, differentiation, callable and non-callable objects, human-readable PP forms, and basis visualization, all based on De Boor's theory. It also extends to multiple knots to capture singularities. This feature is robust in the package, including for constrained regression. This R implementation is intended for demonstration and prototyping. An equivalent Python package is available at https://pypi.org/project/BsplineQuantRegpy/.

Install

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

install.packages("BsplineQuantReg", 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("alexandreabbes/BsplineQuantReg")

Development version from alexandreabbes/BsplineQuantReg. 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-bsplinequantreg

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-BsplineQuantReg

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

CRAN check page ↗

Slowest check: 4.1 min · r-release-macos-x86_64

Status changes

OK13 OK2026-08-05
NOTE12 OK, 1 NOTE2026-08-01
OK13 OK2026-07-26
WARNING8 OK, 5 WARNING2026-07-22
OK8 OK2026-06-24

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 0.2.6

READMEYes · 535 wordsVignettesYes · 5 · dynamicNEWSYes · 33% structuredCitation fileYes · cites a publication

Help pages: 46 (4 internal)
Examples that run: 83%10 run in a plain check · 2 never run
Exported functions with examples: 32%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 97%
Help pages citing references: 4%

Also includes 11 demo scripts (run with demo())

Vignettes (5)

How these are measured

Downloads

1.4K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #10,801 · ~4/day · ~113/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

29530 days

97490 days

1.4K1 year

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Also on54 r2u

How downloads are counted

Repository

alexandreabbes/bsplinequantreg ↗Account: alexandreabbes

0Stars

0Forks

1Open issues

0Open PRs

5Releases

161Commits

2Commit identities

161 commits · Last activity 2026-10-22

Responsiveness

not measured

Releases over time

2026-07-07 · 02026-08-20 · 5

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

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

Checks run against github.com/alexandreabbes/bsplinequantreg on 2026-10-21.

Continuous integration (1)

GitHub Actions

Lint, format, editor (1)

RStudio project

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

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

8 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing BsplineQuantReg adds 14 packages (14 with compiled code, 17 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: clarabel 5.7 MB, ECOSolveR 2.1 MB, Rcpp 1.8 MB.

Depends (1)

R >= 4.5.0

Imports (3)

CVXR ECOSolveRutils

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (6)

clarabel cobs quantreg knitr rmarkdown testthat

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

1direct

0indirect

Imports 1

Depends, Imports or LinkingTo, most downloaded first

BsplineQuantRegGui

How these are counted

Code & Tests

People & History

People (1)

Alexandre Abbes

Author, Maintainer since 0.1.0 (2026)

Releases (6)

Pick two releases to compare their code metrics.

0.2.6Latest
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2026-10-22 · current release · diff ↗ ·
added 2 exports
SplineConstantQuant, SplinePolynQuant
·
3 days in CRAN's queue
Listed in CRAN's incoming queue from 2026-10-19 18:02 to 2026-10-22 12:40 UTC, when it was published, in 12 readings.
0.2.5
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2026-08-20 · diff ↗ ·
added 3 exports
setup_solver, show_poly, show_pp
0.2.2
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2026-07-28 · diff ↗ ·
added 5 exports
Bspline_base_deriv, Bsplinetopp, evalpp, makpp, test_karlin_simple
0.2.1
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2026-07-24 · diff ↗ ·
removed 1 export
test_karlin_simple

added 1 export
get_parameters
0.2.0
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2026-07-21 · diff ↗ ·
removed 5 exports
Spline_der_knots, apply_karlin_constraints, bspline_to_deriv_coeffs_pp, is_beta, package_version

added 14 exports
SplineConstQuantRegBs1, SplineConstQuantRegBs2, SplineConstQuantRegBs4, SplineCubicQuant, SplineLinearQuant, SplineQuadraticQuant, SplineQuarticQuant, Spline_der_knot, bspline_to_deriv_coeffs_cubic, bspline_to_deriv_coeffs_lin, bspline_to_deriv_coeffs_quad, bspline_to_deriv_coeffs_quart, make_spline, quantile_spline
0.1.0
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first seen 2026-06-23
R
R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24

Across CRAN, the median accepted release of the past year spent 26 hours in the queue, 90% under 11 days.How queue time is measured

Package metadata

First seen: 2026-06-23
Total releases: 6 / 1 yrs
License: GPL-3 OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 4.5.0
Download size: 1.1 MB

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' entry:

citation("BsplineQuantReg")

The package provides a citation file, so citation() returns the authors' own entry.

It points to 10.5281/zenodo.17427913.

Cite the R Observatory

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Format

APA

Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for BsplineQuantReg version 0.2.6 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-24. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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