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hdnom vs RadialMR
A side-by-side editorial comparison of hdnom and RadialMR — release velocity, themes, recent moves, and the top alternatives to consider.
hdnom vs RadialMR: at a glance
What is hdnom?
hdnom is in pure custodial mode, absorbing glmnet's changes so its users don't have to
hdnom builds nomograms and validation/calibration workflows for high-dimensional Cox survival models on top of glmnet, ncvreg and penalized. The package's own interface has been stable since the 6.0.0 refactor in 2019; every release since has been maintenance. The recent run is entirely about surviving glmnet's evolution — a lambda-selection rule argument, then a cox.ties argument pinning the old tie handling.
What is RadialMR?
RadialMR's 2026 release corrects degrees of freedom that had been wrong since documentation.
RadialMR implements radial-plot formulations of IVW and MR-Egger Mendelian randomization, with outlier detection and interactive plotting. The recent history is thin on features and increasingly focused on the arithmetic: 1.2.4 in July 2026 fixes the degrees of freedom returned by egger_radial() to the documented n-2, corrects the heterogeneity p-value that inherited the same error, and repairs a negated lower bound in the random-effects bootstrap standard error search interval in ivw_radial().
hdnom vs RadialMR: editorial side-by-side
hdnom
5.0ANALYTICS
hdnom is in pure custodial mode, absorbing glmnet's changes so its users don't have to
◆ Current state
hdnom builds nomograms and validation/calibration workflows for high-dimensional Cox survival models on top of glmnet, ncvreg and penalized. The package's own interface has been stable since the 6.0.0 refactor in 2019; every release since has been maintenance. The recent run is entirely about surviving glmnet's evolution — a lambda-selection rule argument, then a cox.ties argument pinning the old tie handling.
◆ Where it's heading
The releases track two upstream pressures with no feature work of its own. glmnet is the larger one: its 4.1-9 change to how Cox cross-validation errors are normalized made lambda.1se select null models far more often, forcing hdnom to expose a rule argument and switch its examples to lambda.min. R-devel is the other, producing a steady trickle of strict-headers, deprecated-symbol and check-note fixes. The pattern is consistent — absorb the upstream change, default to whatever preserves existing behaviour, let users opt into the new one.
◆ Prediction
The cox.ties default is explicitly pinned to "breslow" to silence glmnet's migration warning, which is a deferral rather than a decision; expect a future release to flip that default to "efron" once glmnet completes the transition.
RadialMR
0.0ANALYTICS
RadialMR's 2026 release corrects degrees of freedom that had been wrong since documentation.
◆ Current state
RadialMR implements radial-plot formulations of IVW and MR-Egger Mendelian randomization, with outlier detection and interactive plotting. The recent history is thin on features and increasingly focused on the arithmetic: 1.2.4 in July 2026 fixes the degrees of freedom returned by egger_radial() to the documented n-2, corrects the heterogeneity p-value that inherited the same error, and repairs a negated lower bound in the random-effects bootstrap standard error search interval in ivw_radial().
◆ Where it's heading
This is a package being read closely by its maintainer rather than extended. The 1.2.x line pairs statistical corrections with defensive hardening — an rmr_format class check so unformatted input fails with a clear message, and plotly_radial() dispatching on object class instead of counting list elements. Both are the kind of change made while auditing, not while building.
◆ Prediction
Expect the audit to continue into the remaining estimator internals and print methods rather than new radial variants; the entries show no feature work queued.
Alternatives to hdnom and RadialMR
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Recent activity from hdnom and RadialMR
Latest ship moves from both products, interleaved chronologically. ⚡ = editorial spark.
- 18d agohdnomhdnom 6.2.1
- 18d agohdnomhdnom 6.2.0 pins Cox tie handling ahead of glmnet's migration
- 1mo agoRadialMRegger_radial() degrees of freedom corrected to n-2
- 3mo agoRadialMRroxygen2 bumped; package-level helpfile added
- 4mo agoRadialMRUnspecified codebase optimizations
- 1y agoRadialMRggplot2 v4 warning removed from plot_radial()
- 1y agohdnomhdnom 6.1.0 exposes lambda selection after a glmnet normalization change
- 1y agohdnomhdnom 6.0.4
- 2y agohdnomhdnom 6.0.3
- 3y agohdnomhdnom 6.0.2
Frequently asked questions
What is the difference between hdnom and RadialMR?
They serve adjacent needs but don't currently overlap on shipped themes. hdnom is currently shipping more aggressively (velocity 5.0 vs 0.0), with 0 editorial sparks in the last 30 days against 0. See the at-a-glance table above for a side-by-side breakdown of velocity, recent sparks, and editorial themes.
Is hdnom better than RadialMR?
Sparkpulse doesn't pick a winner — we score release velocity, not feature parity. hdnom is currently shipping more aggressively (velocity 5.0 vs 0.0), with 0 editorial sparks in the last 30 days against 0. For your specific use case, the alternatives sections above list other Analytics products to evaluate alongside.
What are the best alternatives to hdnom?
Top hdnom alternatives in Analytics are ranked by recent ship velocity. Browse the "hdnom alternatives" section above for the current picks, or visit /alternatives/hdnom for the full list with editorial commentary on each.
What are the best alternatives to RadialMR?
Top RadialMR alternatives in Analytics are ranked by recent ship velocity. Browse the "RadialMR alternatives" section above for the current picks, or visit /alternatives/radialmr for the full list with editorial commentary on each.