R Observatory: Metrics for bst version 0.3-24

Balamuta, James Joseph

bst

0.3-24

Gradient Boosting

3packages depend

54.8Kdownloads / year

–test coverage

11/13checks pass

Overview

About

Maintained by Zhu WangFirst published 2011-03-3121 releasesCRAN page ↗

Functional gradient descent algorithm for a variety of convex and non-convex loss functions, for both classical and robust regression and classification problems. See Wang (2011) doi:10.2202/1557-4679.1304, Wang (2012) doi:10.3414/ME11-02-0020, Wang (2018) doi:10.1080/10618600.2018.1424635, Wang (2018) doi:10.1214/18-EJS1404.

Install

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

install.packages("bst", 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-bst

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

# 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-bst

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-bst

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

Health

CRAN checks

2NOTE11OK

Failing flavors

NOTE r-devel-linux-x86_64-debian-clang
NOTE r-devel-linux-x86_64-debian-gcc

Slowest check: 3.7 min · r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

Code health

None

Tests · ratio 0.00

not tracked

Coverage

100%

Documentation · exports

5

Dependencies · direct

Check history

NOTE2026-03-10
12 OK · 2 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE

Documentation

READMENoVignettesYes · dynamicpkgdown siteNoNEWSYes · 0% structuredCode of conductNoContributing guideNo

Examples that run: 50%
Documented parameters: 91%
Return-value docs: 95%
References docs: 32%

Downloads

54.8K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #2,188 · ~150/day · ~4.6K/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

1.6K30 days

9.7K90 days

54.8K1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

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Dependencies

Declared dependencies

8 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Depends (0)

none

Imports (5)

rpartmethodsforeach doParallel gbm

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (5)

hdi pROC R.rsp knitr gdata

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

3direct

2indirect

bujar mpath mlr

Code & Tests

People & History

People (2)

Maintainer (1)

Zhu Wang

Author, Maintainer

Authors (1)

Zhu Wang

Author, Maintainer

Contributors (1)

Torsten Hothorn

Contributor · added in 0.3-11

Package Timeline

21 releases. Pick two to compare their code metrics. R releases are shown for context.

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R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
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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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0.3-21
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0.3-20
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R 4.0.0 released · 2020-04-24
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R 3.6.0 released · 2019-04-26
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2019-02-27 · diff ↗
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2018-07-23 · diff ↗

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R 3.5.0 released · 2018-04-23
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R 3.4.0 released · 2017-04-21
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R 3.3.0 released · 2016-05-03
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0.3-11
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R 3.2.0 released · 2015-04-16
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R 3.1.0 released · 2014-04-10
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R 3.0.0 released · 2013-04-03
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R 2.15.0 released · 2012-03-30
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R 2.14.0 released · 2011-10-31
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R 2.13.0 released · 2011-04-13
0.2
2011-03-31 · diff ↗
2.12.2
2011-02-12
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R 2.12.0 released · 2010-10-15

Package metadata

First published: 2011-03-31
Total releases: 21 / 15 yrs
License: GPL (>= 2) OSI
Download size: 1.8 MB
Installed size: not tracked yet
With dependencies: not tracked yet

Appears in task views

Machine Learning & Statistical Learning

Cite

Cite this package

Start here. This is the citation for the package itself.

citation("bst")

CRAN DOI

https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.bst

BibTeX, derived from DESCRIPTION

@Manual{bst,
  title  = {bst: Gradient Boosting},
  author = {Wang, Zhu and Hothorn, Torsten},
  year   = {2023},
  note   = {R package version 0.3-24},
  doi    = {10.32614/CRAN.package.bst},
  url    = {https://CRAN.R-project.org/package=bst}
}

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BibTeX

@misc{robservatorybst,
  author    = {Balamuta, James Joseph},
  title     = {{R} {Observatory}: Metrics for {bst} version 0.3-24},
  year      = {2026},
  publisher = {HJJB, LLC},
  url       = {https://r-observatory.thecoatlessprofessor.com/packages/bst},
  note      = {Data set. Data release v2026-08-05}
}

APA

Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for bst version 0.3-24 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-08-05. https://r-observatory.thecoatlessprofessor.com/packages/bst

RIS

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In prose

These package metrics were obtained from the R Observatory (Balamuta, 2026), data release v2026-08-05, https://r-observatory.thecoatlessprofessor.com/packages/bst.

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