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Multivariate Survival Trees

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Overview

About

Maintained by Peter CalhounFirst published 2014-09-207 releasesCRAN page ↗

Constructs trees for multivariate survival data using marginal and frailty models. Grows, prunes, and selects the best-sized tree.

Install

R (CRAN)Ubuntu (r2u)openSUSE (OBS)

install.packages("MST", 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-mst

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

# 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-MST

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

Health

CRAN checks

13OK

Slowest check: 2.1 min · r-devel-linux-x86_64-fedora-clang

Check history

OK2026-03-10
14 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE

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Dependencies

Declared dependencies

2 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Depends (2)

R >= 3.5.0survival

Imports (7)

graphicsgrDevicesMASSFormulamethodspartykitstats

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Suggests (0)

none

Enhances (0)

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Code & Tests

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People & History

People (3)

Maintainer (1)

Peter Calhoun

Author, Maintainer

Authors (3)

Peter Calhoun

Author, Maintainer

Juanjuan Fan

Author · added in 1.2

Xiaogang Su

Author

Listed in earlier versions (1)

and Juanjuan Fan

no longer listed · 1.0 to 1.1

Package Timeline

7 releases. R releases are shown for context.

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R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
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R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11
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R 4.4.0 released · 2024-04-24
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R 4.3.0 released · 2023-04-21
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R 4.2.0 released · 2022-04-22
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R 4.1.0 released · 2021-05-18
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R 4.0.0 released · 2020-04-24
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2020-04-09 · current release · diff ↗
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R 3.6.0 released · 2019-04-26
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R 3.5.0 released · 2018-04-23
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2018-02-16 · diff ↗
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R 3.4.0 released · 2017-04-21
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2017-04-15 · diff ↗
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2016-05-25 · diff ↗
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R 3.3.0 released · 2016-05-03
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2015-12-02 · diff ↗

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2015-08-09 · diff ↗
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R 3.2.0 released · 2015-04-16
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2014-09-20
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R 3.1.0 released · 2014-04-10

Package metadata

First published: 2014-09-20
Total releases: 7 / 12 yrs
License: GPL-2 OSI
Download size: 653 KB
Installed size: not tracked yet
With dependencies: not tracked yet

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