abe

5.1.2

Augmented Backward Elimination

0packages depend

10.2Kdownloads / year

5.2%test coverage

13/13checks pass

Overview

About

Maintained by Rok BlagusFirst published 2017-10-302 releasesCRAN page ↗

Performs augmented backward elimination and checks the stability of the obtained model. Augmented backward elimination combines significance or information based criteria with the change in estimate to either select the optimal model for prediction purposes or to serve as a tool to obtain a practically sound, highly interpretable model. More details can be found in Dunkler et al. (2014) doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0113677.

Install

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

install.packages("abe", 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-abe

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-abe

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

Health

CRAN checks

13OK

Slowest check: 4.7 min · r-devel-linux-x86_64-fedora-clang

Code health

Yes

Tests · ratio 0.01

5.2%

Coverage · measured lines

100%

Documentation · exports

Dependencies · direct

Check history

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

Documentation

READMEYes · 89 wordsVignettesNopkgdown siteNoNEWSNoCode of conductNoContributing guideNo

Examples that run: 35%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 75%
References docs: 21%

Downloads

10.2K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #4,357 · ~28/day · ~851/mo

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Dependencies

Declared dependencies

6 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Depends (1)

R >= 4.1.0

Imports (6)

ggplot2 reshape2 tidytextsurvivalforeach lifecycle

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (1)

testthat

Enhances (0)

none

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Reverse dependencies

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Nothing depends on this yet.

Code & Tests

People & History

People (5)

Maintainer (1)

Rok Blagus

Author, Maintainer

Authors (1)

Rok Blagus

Author, Maintainer

Contributors (4)

Sladana Babic

Contributor

Daniela Dunkler

Contributor · added in 5.1.2

Georg Heinze

Contributor · added in 5.1.2

Gregor Steiner

Contributor · added in 5.1.2

Package Timeline

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R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
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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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R 3.4.0 released · 2017-04-21

Package metadata

First published: 2017-10-30
Total releases: 2 / 9 yrs
License: GPL-3 OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 4.1.0
Download size: 39 KB
Installed size: not tracked yet
With dependencies: not tracked yet

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