SelectBoost

2.3.0

A General Algorithm to Enhance the Performance of Variable Selection Methods in Correlated Datasets

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Overview

About

Maintained by Frederic BertrandFirst published 2019-05-276 releasesCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗

An implementation of the selectboost algorithm (Bertrand et al. 2020, 'Bioinformatics', doi:10.1093/bioinformatics/btaa855), which is a general algorithm that improves the precision of any existing variable selection method. This algorithm is based on highly intensive simulations and takes into account the correlation structure of the data. It can either produce a confidence index for variable selection or it can be used in an experimental design planning perspective.

Install

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

install.packages("SelectBoost", 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("fbertran/SelectBoost")

Development version from fbertran/SelectBoost. 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-selectboost

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

Health

CRAN checks

13OK

Slowest check: 4.0 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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Repository

GitHub ↗ fbertran/selectboost

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Dependencies

Declared dependencies

15 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Depends (1)

R >= 3.5

Imports (13)

lars glmnet igraphparallelmsgps RfastmethodsCascadegraphicsgrDevicesvarbvs spls abind

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Suggests (6)

knitr markdown rmarkdown mixOmics CascadeData testthat

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Reverse dependencies

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Patterns SelectBoost.FDA SelectBoost.gamlss

Code & Tests

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People & History

People (4)

Maintainer (1)

Frederic Bertrand

Maintainer, Author

Authors (2)

Frederic Bertrand

Maintainer, Author

Myriam Maumy-Bertrand

Author

Contributors (2)

Ismail Aouadi

Contributor

Nicolas Jung

Contributor

Package Timeline

6 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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2020-02-23 · diff ↗
1.4.0
2019-05-27
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R 3.6.0 released · 2019-04-26

Package metadata

First published: 2019-05-27
Total releases: 6 / 7 yrs
License: GPL-3 OSI
Download size: 967 KB
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