elasticnet

1.3

Elastic-Net for Sparse Estimation and Sparse PCA

23packages depend

68Kdownloads / year

–test coverage

11/13checks pass

Overview

About

Maintained by Hui ZouFirst published 2004-12-078 releasesCRAN page ↗

Provides functions for fitting the entire solution path of the Elastic-Net and also provides functions for doing sparse PCA.

Install

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

install.packages("elasticnet", 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-elasticnet

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-elasticnet

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-elasticnet

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: 55 s · r-devel-windows-x86_64

Code health

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Tests · ratio 0.00

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Coverage

Dependencies · direct

Check history

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Documentation

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Examples that run: 100%
Documented parameters: not tracked
Return-value docs: not tracked
References docs: 92%

Downloads

68K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #1,795 · ~186/day · ~5.7K/mo

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Dependencies

Declared dependencies

1 external dependency (excludes base and recommended)

Depends (2)

R >= 2.10lars

Imports (0)

none

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (0)

none

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

23direct

5indirect

FADA FisherEM funFEM sRDA DLEGFM DSFM LINselect SOPC brainKCCA bujar clusterability pcreg prinvars rospca sparseLDA ChemoSpec MachineShop Patterns epca evalITR mlr quadrupen sharp

Code & Tests

Code Composition

R 711 (60%)Rd 473 (40%)

Code characteristics

Object systems

S35

Cyclomatic complexity: 3.5 median / 29 max

Test coverage

Line coverage

–

Expression

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Tests / Examples

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Functions

14 0 exported

Complexity

7.3 avg / 29 max

Call network

14 nodes / 8 edges

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Lowest coverage

Per-function coverage is not measured for this package yet.

Datasets

Bundled datasets · 1

Name	Class	Rows × Cols	Also ships in
diabetes	data.frame	442 × 3	in 9 packages

People & History

People (0)

Author records are not tracked yet for this package.

Listed in earlier versions (2)

Trevor Hastie

no longer listed · 1.0 to 1.3

Hui Zou

no longer listed · 1.0 to 1.3

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Package metadata

First published: 2004-12-07
Total releases: 8 / 22 yrs
License: GPL (>= 2) OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 2.10
Bundled data: 153 KB / 2 files
Download size: 167 KB
Installed size: not tracked yet
With dependencies: not tracked yet

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