R Observatory: Metrics for Boruta version 10.0.0

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

Boruta

10.0.0

Wrapper Algorithm for All Relevant Feature Selection

4packages dependsuggested by 11

108.4Kdownloads / year

35.6%test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Miron Bartosz KursaCRAN page ↗GitLab ↗

An all relevant feature selection wrapper algorithm. It finds relevant features by comparing original attributes' importance with importance achievable at random, estimated using their permuted copies (shadows).

Install

R (CRAN)pak (dev)Ubuntu (r2u)Fedora (COPR)openSUSE (OBS)

install.packages("Boruta", repos = "https://cloud.r-project.org/")

Installs the current CRAN release. Prebuilt binaries on Windows and macOS.

if (!requireNamespace("pak", quietly = TRUE))
  install.packages("pak", repos = "https://cloud.r-project.org/")
pak::pak("mbq/Boruta")

Development version from mbq/Boruta. Installs pak first if it is not already available.

Release

# enable cranapt (r2u) if it is not already set up, then install
grep -rqs r2u.stat.illinois.edu /etc/apt/sources.list /etc/apt/sources.list.d/ \
  || curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/eddelbuettel/r2u/master/inst/scripts/add_cranapt_noble.sh | sudo bash
sudo apt install -y r-cran-boruta

Fast Ubuntu binaries via r2u (no compilation). The cranapt setup runs once and is skipped when it is already enabled. We list this channel from recorded r2u download activity rather than from a live index of the repository, so treat it as last known rather than guaranteed.

bspm (used by r2u) also needs make: sudo apt install make

# enable the iucar/cran COPR if it is not already present, then install
ls /etc/yum.repos.d/*iucar*cran*.repo >/dev/null 2>&1 \
  || sudo dnf copr enable -y iucar/cran
sudo dnf install -y R-CRAN-Boruta

RPMs from the iucar/cran COPR, rebuilt from CRAN.

For install.packages() integration in R, also: sudo dnf install R-CoprManager

# add the autoCRAN OBS repo (Tumbleweed) if it is missing, then install
zypper -q lr | grep -qi autoCRAN \
  || sudo zypper addrepo https://download.opensuse.org/repositories/devel:/languages:/R:/autoCRAN/openSUSE_Tumbleweed/devel:languages:R:autoCRAN.repo
sudo zypper install -y R-Boruta

RPMs auto-built from CRAN on openSUSE OBS (Tumbleweed). We list this channel from recorded autoCRAN download activity rather than from a live index of the repository, so treat it as last known rather than guaranteed.

Health

CRAN checks

13OK

CRAN check page ↗

Slowest check: 1.5 min · r-devel-windows-x86_64

Status changes

OK13 OK2026-08-05
NOTE12 OK, 1 NOTE2026-08-01
OK13 OK2026-04-29
ERROR13 OK, 1 ERROR2026-04-23
OK14 OK2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 10.0.0

READMENoVignettesYes · 2 · dynamicNEWSYes · 100% structuredCitation fileYes · cites a publicationWebsitenot declared in DESCRIPTION

Cites a JSS article

Help pages: 16
Examples that run: no examples
Exported functions with examples: 0%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 69%
Help pages citing references: 6%

Vignettes (2)

Boruta for those in a hurry PDF
Importance transdapters PDF

How these are measured

Downloads

108.4K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #1,285 · ~297/day · ~9K/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

7.6K30 days

23.3K90 days

108.4K1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on553 r2u29 autocran2.6K conda_forge191 c2d4u

How downloads are counted

Repository

gitlab.com/mbq/boruta ↗

Responsiveness

not measured

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

Repository gitlab.com/mbq/boruta is linked, but repository-practices checks have not run for it yet. Checks are GitHub-only for now.

How this is detected·Detection ruleset v3 (2026-09-26)

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

4 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing Boruta adds 1 package (1 with compiled code, 45 KB of source tarballs). Heaviest: fru 45 KB.

Depends (0)

none

Imports (1)

fru

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (4)

rFerns randomForest rangersurvival

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

4direct

0indirect

Imports 4

Suggested by 11

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Depends, Imports or LinkingTo, most downloaded first

multiclassPairs SISIR HDStIM CompositionalML

Suggests, most downloaded first

mlr3filters nestedcv finnts featR R4VN fuseMLR CrownScorchTLS MSclassifR corrselect omicsTools UKBAnalytica

How these are counted

Code & Tests

Datasets

People & History

People (2)

Miron Bartosz Kursa

Author, Maintainer since 1.0 (2009)

Witold Remigiusz Rudnicki

Author

Listed in earlier versions (6)

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Miron B. Kursa.

no longer listed · 1.0 to 1.6

Witold R. Rudnicki

no longer listed · 1.0 to 1.6

Miron Bartosz

no longer listed · 2.0.0 to 10.0.0

Witold Remigiusz

no longer listed · 2.0.0 to 10.0.0

Miron B.

no longer listed · 5.1.0

Witold R.

no longer listed · 5.1.0

Releases (21)

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10.0.0Latest
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2026-05-16 · current release · diff ↗ ·
removed 4 exports
getImpExtraGini, getImpExtraRaw, getImpExtraZ, getImpXgboost

added 2 exports
getImpFruRaw, getImpFruZ
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R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
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R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11
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R 4.4.0 released · 2024-04-24
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R 4.3.0 released · 2023-04-21
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conditionalTransdapter, decohereTransdapter, imputeTransdapter
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R 4.2.0 released · 2022-04-22
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R 4.1.0 released · 2021-05-18
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R 4.0.0 released · 2020-04-24
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R 3.6.0 released · 2019-04-26
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getImpExtraGini, getImpExtraRaw, getImpExtraZ
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R 3.5.0 released · 2018-04-23
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R 3.4.0 released · 2017-04-21

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R 2.15.0 released · 2012-03-30
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R 2.14.0 released · 2011-10-31
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R 2.13.0 released · 2011-04-13
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R 2.11.0 released · 2010-04-22
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2009-12-06
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R 2.10.0 released · 2009-10-26

Package metadata

First published: 2009-12-06
Total releases: 21 / 17 yrs
License: GPL (>= 2) OSI
Bundled data: 0.3 KB / 1 file
Download size: 377 KB

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Machine Learning & Statistical Learning

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' entry:

citation("Boruta")

The package provides a citation file, so citation() returns the authors' own entry.

It points to 10.18637/jss.v036.i11.

Cite the R Observatory

For a number measured here: a download total, a coverage figure, an archival date.

Format

APA

Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for Boruta version 10.0.0 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-17. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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