pls: Partial Least Squares and Principal Component Regression

Multivariate regression methods Partial Least Squares Regression (PLSR), Principal Component Regression (PCR) and Canonical Powered Partial Least Squares (CPPLS).

Version:	2.9-0
Depends:	R (≥ 3.5.0)
Imports:	grDevices, graphics, methods, stats
Suggests:	MASS, parallel, Rmpi, testthat, RUnit, knitr
Published:	2026-02-21
DOI:	10.32614/CRAN.package.pls
Author:	Kristian Hovde Liland [aut, cre], Bjørn-Helge Mevik [aut], Ron Wehrens [aut], Paul Hiemstra [ctb]
Maintainer:	Kristian Hovde Liland <kristian.liland at nmbu.no>
BugReports:	https://github.com/khliland/pls/issues
License:	GPL-2
URL:	https://github.com/khliland/pls, https://khliland.github.io/pls/
NeedsCompilation:	no
Materials:	NEWS
In views:	ChemPhys, HighPerformanceComputing, Psychometrics
CRAN checks:	pls results

Documentation:

Reference manual:	pls.html , pls.pdf
Vignettes:	Introduction to the pls Package (source, R code)

Downloads:

Package source:	pls_2.9-0.tar.gz
Windows binaries:	r-devel: pls_2.9-0.zip, r-release: pls_2.9-0.zip, r-oldrel: pls_2.9-0.zip
macOS binaries:	r-release (arm64): pls_2.9-0.tgz, r-oldrel (arm64): pls_2.9-0.tgz, r-release (x86_64): pls_2.9-0.tgz, r-oldrel (x86_64): pls_2.9-0.tgz
Old sources:	pls archive

Reverse dependencies:

Reverse depends:	ClassificationEnsembles, dbstats, dmm, lmdme, LogisticEnsembles, lspls, MAIT, monomvn, NumericEnsembles, plsVarSel, RcmdrPlugin.NMBU, robCompositions
Reverse imports:	apercu, bestglm, bootPLS, carsAlgo, chemometrics, chillR, convergenceDFM, DaMiRseq, EasyABC, enpls, envi, ER, fdm2id, funcml, funtooNorm, gemR, groc, HDANOVA, LINselect, lolR, MetabolicSurv, MicrobiomeSurv, mixlm, MLInterfaces, MLSP, morepls, mt, multiblock, multivarious, OHPL, plasma, plsRcox, predhy, predhy.GUI, pwr2ppl, QWDAP, regressoR, Renvlp, rminer, rQSAR, rqt, rrcovHD, RVAideMemoire, SCGLR, SmoothPLS, spls, statTarget, studyStrap, tsensembler, waves, wavFeatExt
Reverse suggests:	agridat, baseline, bigPLSR, butcher, caret, ChemoSpec, climodr, cocorresp, decisionSupport, EEM, hyperSpec, imputeR, LSAmitR, MachineShop, miceadds, mlr, multiDEGGs, multiRL, nestedcv, pep725, plsRbeta, qmtools, RStoolbox, simrel, soilVAE, spectacles, structToolbox, tidyfit, valueprhr, writeAlizer, zfit
Reverse enhances:	plsRglm, vip

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