R Observatory: Metrics for ExplainPrediction version 1.3.0

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

This package was removed from CRAN on 2025-06-13. Its history is shown below.

Reason: issues were not corrected despite reminders

Details below reflect version 1.3.0, its last release before removal.

ExplainPrediction

1.3.0Package record

Explanation of Predictions for Classification and Regression Models

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Overview

About

Maintained by Marko Robnik-SikonjaCRAN page ↗Website ↗

Generates explanations for classification and regression models and visualizes them. Explanations are generated for individual predictions as well as for models as a whole. Two explanation methods are included, EXPLAIN and IME. The EXPLAIN method is fast but might miss explanations expressed redundantly in the model. The IME method is slower as it samples from all feature subsets. For the EXPLAIN method see Robnik-Sikonja and Kononenko (2008) doi:10.1109/TKDE.2007.190734, and the IME method is described in Strumbelj and Kononenko (2010, JMLR, vol. 11:1-18). All models in package 'CORElearn' are natively supported, for other prediction models a wrapper function is provided and illustrated for models from packages 'randomForest', 'nnet', and 'e1071'.

Install

R (source archive)

url <- "https://cran.r-project.org/src/contrib/Archive/ExplainPrediction/ExplainPrediction_1.3.0.tar.gz"
pkgFile <- "ExplainPrediction_1.3.0.tar.gz"
download.file(url, pkgFile)
install.packages(pkgFile, type = "source", repos = NULL)

This package is no longer on CRAN, so install.packages() cannot fetch it by name. This downloads the last archived source (1.3.0) and builds it locally. Install its dependencies first, and note that building from source needs the usual compiler toolchain.

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In release 1.3.0

READMENoVignettesNoNEWSNoCitation fileNoWebsiteYes

Help pages: 3includes a package overview page
Examples that run: 50%1 run in a plain check · 1 never run
Exported functions with examples: 100%
Documented parameters: 75%
Return-value docs: 100%
Help pages citing references: 67%

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Imports (2)

CORElearn semiArtificial

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nnete1071 randomForest

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People (1)

Marko Robnik-Sikonja

Contributor

Maintainer since 1.0.2 (2015)

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Package metadata

First published: 2015-09-07
Total releases: 5 / 11 yrs
License: GPL-3 OSI

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("ExplainPrediction")

Format

Robnik-Sikonja, M. (n.d.). ExplainPrediction: Explanation of Predictions for Classification and Regression Models (Version 1.3.0) [Computer software]. Retrieved October 24, 2026, from https://CRAN.R-project.org/package=ExplainPrediction

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APA

Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for ExplainPrediction version 1.3.0 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-23. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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