We have submitted glmnet_1.6 to CRAN This version has an improved convergence criterion, and it also uses a variable screening algorithm that dramatically reduces the time to convergence (while still producing the exact solutions). The speedups in some cases are by a factors of 20 to 50, depending on the particular problem and loss function. See our paper http://www-stat.stanford.edu/~tibs/ftp/strong.pdf "Strong Rules for Discarding Predictors in Lasso-type Problems" for details of this screening method. ------------------------------------------------------------------- Trevor Hastie hastie at stanford.edu Professor, Department of Statistics, Stanford University Phone: (650) 725-2231 (Statistics) Fax: (650) 725-8977 (650) 498-5233 (Biostatistics) Fax: (650) 725-6951 URL: http://www-stat.stanford.edu/~hastie address: room 104, Department of Statistics, Sequoia Hall 390 Serra Mall, Stanford University, CA 94305-4065 _______________________________________________ R-packages mailing list R-packages at r-project.org https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-packages