R Observatory: Metrics for DynForest version 1.2.0

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

DynForest

1.2.0Package record

Random Forest with Multivariate Longitudinal Predictors

0packages depend

6.1Kdownloads / year

–test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Anthony DevauxCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Issues ↗

Based on random forest principle, 'DynForest' is able to include multiple longitudinal predictors to provide individual predictions. Longitudinal predictors are modeled through the random forest. The methodology is fully described for a survival outcome in: Devaux, Helmer, Genuer & Proust-Lima (2023) <doi: 10.1177/09622802231206477>.

Changes in 1.2.0

Breaking changes

DynForest(), compute_OOBerror(), compute_VIMP(), compute_gVIMP(), var_depth(), getTree(), getTreeNodes() are now depreciated and replaced by dynforest(), compute_ooberror(), compute_vimp(), compute_gvimp(), compute_vardepth(), get_tree(), get_treenodes(), respectively.

From NEWS.md in the release

Install

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

install.packages("DynForest", 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("anthonydevaux/DynForest")

Development version from anthonydevaux/DynForest. 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-dynforest

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-DynForest

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-DynForest

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: 3.8 min · r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

Status changes

OK13 OK2026-08-05
NOTE12 OK, 1 NOTE2026-08-01
OK13 OK2026-06-09
ERROR12 OK, 1 ERROR2026-06-08
OK14 OK2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 1.2.0

READMEYes · 180 wordsVignettesYes · 5 · dynamicNEWSYes · 100% structured · mentions 1.2.0Citation fileYes · cites a publicationWebsitenot declared in DESCRIPTION

Help pages: 14
Examples that run: 21%3 run in a plain check · 11 only when donttest examples are enabled (R CMD check --as-cran)
Exported functions with examples: 100%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 100%
Help pages citing references: 7%

Vignettes (5)

How these are measured

Downloads

6.1K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #8,209 · ~17/day · ~510/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

38530 days

1.1K90 days

6.1K1 year

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Also on93 r2u7 autocran

How downloads are counted

Repository

anthonydevaux/dynforest ↗Account: anthonydevaux

20Stars

6Forks

0Open issues

0Open PRs

4Releases

167Commits

3Commit identities

167 commits · Last activity 2025-04-11 · +5.3% stars, 30d · Default branch at 1.2.1, ahead of CRAN 1.2.0 (checked 2026-10-18)

Responsiveness

How these are sampled

PRs merged (all time): 0%
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed issues: 6
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed PRs: 84

Stars over time

2025-06-25 · 152026-09-23 · 20

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

4 development-tooling and community-health practices detected across 3 families in the upstream repository

Checks run against github.com/anthonydevaux/dynforest on 2026-10-18.

Continuous integration (2)

GitHub ActionsR CMD check workflow

The R CMD check workflow runs on Linux, macOS and Windows, and on R-devel

Docs source (1)

README.Rmd

Lint, format, editor (1)

RStudio project

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

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

15 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing DynForest adds 127 packages (68 with compiled code, 100 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: stringi 11 MB, TH.data 8.2 MB, ggplot2 6.0 MB.

Depends (1)

R >= 4.4.0

Imports (15)

DescTools cli cmprsk doParallel doRNG foreach ggplot2 lcmmmethodspbapply pec prodlim stringrsurvivalzoo

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (2)

knitr rmarkdown

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

0direct

0indirect

Nothing depends on this yet.

How these are counted

Code & Tests

Datasets

People & History

People (4)

Anthony Devaux

Author, Maintainer since 1.0.0 (2022)

Louis Capitaine

Author · added in 1.1.1

Robin Genuer

Author · added in 1.1.1

Cécile Proust-Lima

Author · added in 1.1.1

Releases (6)

Pick two releases to compare their code metrics.

R
R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
R
R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11
1.2.0Latest
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2024-10-23 · current release · diff ↗ ·
removed 7 exports
DynForest, compute_OOBerror, compute_VIMP, compute_gVIMP, getTree, getTreeNodes, var_depth

added 7 exports
compute_gvimp, compute_ooberror, compute_vardepth, compute_vimp, dynforest, get_tree, get_treenodes
R
R 4.4.0 released · 2024-04-24
1.1.3
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2024-03-22 · diff ↗
1.1.2
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2023-12-11 · diff ↗ ·
removed 2 exports
plot_CIF, plot_nodeCIF
R
R 4.3.0 released · 2023-04-21
1.1.1
record
2023-02-11 · diff ↗ ·
added 3 exports
getTree, getTreeNodes, plot_nodeCIF
unarchivedReturned to CRAN
2022-11-19
1.1.0
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2022-11-19 · diff ↗ ·
removed 3 exports
plot_VIMP, plot_gVIMP, plot_mindepth
archivedRemoved from CRAN
2022-11-06
issues were not corrected in time
1.0.0
record
2022-09-20
R
R 4.2.0 released · 2022-04-22

Package metadata

First published: 2022-09-20
Total releases: 6 / 4 yrs
License: LGPL (>= 3) OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 4.4.0
Bundled data: 178 KB / 3 files
Download size: 2.5 MB

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' entry:

citation("DynForest")

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

It points to 10.1177/09622802231206477.

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 DynForest version 1.2.0 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-21. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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