README.md

In smashr: Smoothing by Adaptive Shrinkage

smashr: smoothing using Adaptive Shrinkage in R

This R package implements fast, wavelet-based Empirical Bayes shrinkage methods for signal denoising. This includes smoothing Poisson-distributed data and Gaussian-distributed data, with possibly heteroskedastic error. The algorithms implement the methods described in Xing, Carbonetto & Stephens (2021).

If you find a bug, please post an issue.

License

Copyright (c) 2016-2021, Zhengrong Xing, Peter Carbonetto and Matthew Stephens.

All source code and software in this repository is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

Citing this work

If you find that this R package useful for your work, please cite our paper:

Zhengrong Xing, Peter Carbonetto and Matthew Stephens (2021). Flexible signal denoising via flexible empirical Bayes shrinkage. Journal of Machine Learning Research 22(93), 1-28.

Quick Start

Follow these steps to quickly get started using smashr.

1. In R, install the latest version of smashr using devtools:

R install.packages("devtools") library(devtools) install_github("stephenslab/smashr")

If you are interested in replicating results from the paper, we recommendg installing smashr 1.2-7:

R install_github("stephenslab/smashr@v1.2-7")

This will build the smashr package without the vignettes. To build with the vignettes, do this instead:

R install_github("stephenslab/smashr",build_vignettes = TRUE)

We caution that some of the simulation examples may take a long time to run (20--30 minutes, or possibly longer). Also note that the install_github call should also install any missing packages that are required for smashr to work.

1. Load the smashr package, and run the smashr demo:

R library(smashr) demo("smashr")

1. To learn more, see the smashr package help and the smashr vignette (which you can also view here):

R help(package = "smashr") vignette("smashr")

Credits

This R package was developed by Zhengrong Xing and Matthew Stephens at the University of Chicago, with contributions from Peter Carbonetto.

smashr documentation built on Dec. 16, 2025, 1:07 a.m.