R version 4.6.0 beta (2026-04-16 r89899 ucrt) -- "Because it was There" Copyright (C) 2026 The R Foundation for Statistical Computing Platform: x86_64-w64-mingw32/x64 R is free software and comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY. You are welcome to redistribute it under certain conditions. Type 'license()' or 'licence()' for distribution details. R is a collaborative project with many contributors. Type 'contributors()' for more information and 'citation()' on how to cite R or R packages in publications. Type 'demo()' for some demos, 'help()' for on-line help, or 'help.start()' for an HTML browser interface to help. Type 'q()' to quit R. > library(testthat) > library(sarb) Attaching package: 'sarb' The following object is masked from 'package:testthat': compare > > test_check("sarb") -- Model Comparison ------------------------------------------------------------ m1: RMSE = 0.3836, MAE = 0.2705 m2: RMSE = 0.8264, MAE = 0.5681 -- Pairwise Wilcoxon Signed-Rank Tests -- m1 vs m2: p = 0 (better: m1) -- Which Ensemble Method? ------------------------------------------------------ v Recommended: sarb() \u2014 Signal-Adaptive Residual Boosting Best average rank across 907 datasets (rank 3.38 of 8). Use: sarb(y ~ ., data = df) Runners-up: 2. boost_trees(method = 'xgboost') \u2014 rank 4.13 3. boost_trees(method = 'catboost') \u2014 rank 4.21 -- Which Ensemble Method? ------------------------------------------------------ v Recommended: boost_trees(method = 'lightgbm') Fastest boosting implementation (histogram-based, C++). Alternatives: \u2022 boost_trees(method = 'xgboost') \u2014 also fast, more features \u2022 forest_trees(method = 'extratrees') \u2014 fastest forest (no threshold search) [ FAIL 0 | WARN 0 | SKIP 0 | PASS 87 ] > > proc.time() user system elapsed 9.96 0.70 10.65