A minimal glmnet implementation in R

glmnet-ref.r

soft_thresh = function(x, g) {
  x = as.vector(x)
  w1 = which(g >= abs(x))
  w2 = which(g < abs(x) & x > 0)
  w3 = which(g < abs(x) & x < 0)
  ret = x
  ret[w1] = 0
  ret[w2] = x[w2]-g
  ret[w3] = x[w3]+g
  ret
}
glmnet_ref = function(X, y, lambda, alpha, family=binomial, maxit=10, tol=1e-08)
{
  beta = matrix(rep(0,ncol(X)), ncol=1)
  for(j in 1:maxit)
  {
    beta_outer_old = beta
    eta    = as.matrix(X %*% beta)
    g      = family()$linkinv(eta)
    gprime = family()$mu.eta(eta)
    z      = eta + (y - g) / gprime
    W      = as.vector(gprime^2 / family()$variance(g))
    wx_norm = colSums(W*X^2)    
    for (k in 1:maxit) {
      beta_inner_old = beta
      for (l in 1:length(beta)) {
        beta[l] = soft_thresh(sum(W*X[,l]*(z - X[,-l] %*% beta_inner_old[-l])),
                              sum(W)*lambda*alpha)
      }
      beta = beta / (wx_norm + lambda*(1-alpha))
      if(sqrt(as.double(crossprod(beta-beta_inner_old))) < tol) break    }
    if (sqrt(as.double(crossprod(beta-beta_outer_old))) < tol) break
  }
  list(beta=beta,iterations=j)
}