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A side-by-side editorial comparison of susier and tEDM — release velocity, themes, recent moves, and the top alternatives to consider.
Fine-mapping workhorse susieR spends its releases hunting null-effect trimming bugs
susieR implements the Sum of Single Effects regression model for variable selection and fine-mapping, widely used in statistical genetics. The recent releases are a tight run of correctness work concentrated in one area: null effect trimming. Version 0.15.55 fixed trimming under the Servin-Stephens residual variance method, 0.15.56 fixed it again for non-uniform prior weights fourteen minutes later, 0.15.57 corrected an ELBO null space term for RSS with X and a matrix symmetry check, and 0.15.58 addressed an alpha0/beta0 issue. Version 0.16.0 migrates the C++ bindings from Rcpp to cpp11 with cpp11armadillo.
The temporal half of the stscl EDM pair, tracking its spatial sibling
tEDM applies empirical dynamic modeling to time series — cross mapping, convergent cross mapping and the logistic map — as the temporal counterpart to spEDM, with which it shares a maintainer and a C++ core. The recent releases are consolidation rather than expansion: index handling in cross mapping corrected, generics taught to accept varying E, k and tau, and the associated paper now cited in the README. Only three releases are visible in the feed.
susieR implements the Sum of Single Effects regression model for variable selection and fine-mapping, widely used in statistical genetics. The recent releases are a tight run of correctness work concentrated in one area: null effect trimming. Version 0.15.55 fixed trimming under the Servin-Stephens residual variance method, 0.15.56 fixed it again for non-uniform prior weights fourteen minutes later, 0.15.57 corrected an ELBO null space term for RSS with X and a matrix symmetry check, and 0.15.58 addressed an alpha0/beta0 issue. Version 0.16.0 migrates the C++ bindings from Rcpp to cpp11 with cpp11armadillo.
The version-number churn understates how narrow this work is — four consecutive releases touching the same trimming and residual-variance machinery suggests one area where the implementation and the intended behavior had drifted apart. The 0.16.0 binding migration is the only structural change, and it is invisible to users while mattering for build portability and long-term maintenance. Development is clearly active, with automated release tooling and dependency bumps flowing through the same stream.
With the binding migration just landed, near-term releases are likely to address fallout from it alongside continued fixes in the same trimming and residual-variance code.
tEDM applies empirical dynamic modeling to time series — cross mapping, convergent cross mapping and the logistic map — as the temporal counterpart to spEDM, with which it shares a maintainer and a C++ core. The recent releases are consolidation rather than expansion: index handling in cross mapping corrected, generics taught to accept varying E, k and tau, and the associated paper now cited in the README. Only three releases are visible in the feed.
tEDM moves in lockstep with spEDM. Configurable distance metrics, varying E/k/tau inputs, strict floating-point comparison and the S3 plotting font unification all appear in both packages within days or weeks, as does the maintainer surname correction. The recent balance has tilted toward correcting library and prediction index handling — the kind of repeated attention that suggests the indexing model was the weak point of the shared core.
Expect tEDM to keep inheriting the shared-core changes spEDM lands, with its own releases staying small and centred on cross-mapping parameter handling rather than new method surface.
Other Analytics products tracked by Sparkpulse, ranked by recent ship velocity. Each card links to a full editorial trajectory and lets you pivot into a head-to-head comparison with either susier or tEDM.
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gcube's recent releases are all packaging metadata, not simulation code
The R port of Quinlan's Cubist gets reproducibility fixes, not new modelling
ggstats keeps widening what a coefficient or Likert plot can be
ecodive rebuilt itself into a broad diversity-metric library, breaking as it went
State-space data simulation for R, filled in one function at a time
Latest ship moves from both products, interleaved chronologically. ⚡ = editorial spark.
Both compete on the same themes — r-package — within Analytics. susier and tEDM are shipping at a similar cadence (velocity 0.0 vs 0.0, both within Sparkpulse's "active" band). See the at-a-glance table above for a side-by-side breakdown of velocity, recent sparks, and editorial themes.
Sparkpulse doesn't pick a winner — we score release velocity, not feature parity. susier and tEDM are shipping at a similar cadence (velocity 0.0 vs 0.0, both within Sparkpulse's "active" band). For your specific use case, the alternatives sections above list other Analytics products to evaluate alongside.
Top susier alternatives in Analytics are ranked by recent ship velocity. Browse the "susier alternatives" section above for the current picks, or visit /alternatives/susier for the full list with editorial commentary on each.
Top tEDM alternatives in Analytics are ranked by recent ship velocity. Browse the "tEDM alternatives" section above for the current picks, or visit /alternatives/tedm for the full list with editorial commentary on each.