R Observatory: Metrics for FeatureTerminatoR version 1.0.0

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

FeatureTerminatoR

1.0.0Package record

Feature Selection Engine to Remove Features with Minimal Predictive Power

0packages dependsuggested by 1

3.1Kdownloads / year

–test coverage

0/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Gary HutsonCRAN page ↗

The aim is to take in data.frame inputs and utilises methods, such as recursive feature engineering, to enable the features to be removed. What this does differently from the other packages, is that it gives you the choice to remove the variables manually, or it automated this process. Feature selection is a concept in machine learning, and statistical pipelines, whereby unimportant, or less predictive variables are eliminated from the analysis, see Boughaci (2018) doi:10.1007/s40595-018-0107-y.

Install

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

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

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

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-featureterminator

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-FeatureTerminatoR

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-FeatureTerminatoR

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

13NOTE

Check messages

NOTERd filesr-devel-linux-x86_64-debian-clang, r-devel-linux-x86_64-debian-gcc, r-devel-linux-x86_64-fedora-clang, r-devel-linux-x86_64-fedora-gcc, r-devel-windows-x86_64, r-oldrel-macos-arm64, r-oldrel-macos-x86_64, r-oldrel-windows-x86_64, r-patched-linux-x86_64, r-release-linux-x86_64, r-release-macos-arm64, r-release-macos-x86_64, r-release-windows-x86_64

checkRd: (-1) mutlicol_terminator.Rd:23: Lost braces in \itemize; \value handles \item{}{} directly
checkRd: (-1) mutlicol_terminator.Rd:24: Lost braces in \itemize; \value handles \item{}{} directly
checkRd: (-1) mutlicol_terminator.Rd:25: Lost braces in \itemize; \value handles \item{}{} directly
checkRd: (-1) mutlicol_terminator.Rd:26: Lost braces in \itemize; \value handles \item{}{} directly
checkRd: (-1) rfeTerminator.Rd:42: Lost braces in \itemize; \value handles \item{}{} directly
checkRd: (-1) rfeTerminator.Rd:43: Lost braces in \itemize; \value handles \item{}{} directly
checkRd: (-1) rfeTerminator.Rd:44: Lost braces in \itemize; \value handles \item{}{} directly
checkRd: (-1) rfeTerminator.Rd:45: Lost braces in \itemize; \value handles \item{}{} directly

NOTEdependencies in R coder-devel-linux-x86_64-fedora-clang, r-devel-linux-x86_64-fedora-gcc

Namespaces in Imports field not imported from:
  ‘e1071’ ‘lattice’ ‘randomForest’ ‘tibble’ ‘utils’
All declared Imports should be used.

CRAN check page ↗

Slowest check: 3.1 min · r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

Status changes

NOTE13 NOTE2026-06-09
ERROR12 NOTE, 1 ERROR2026-06-08
NOTE13 NOTE2026-05-02
ERROR11 NOTE, 1 ERROR2026-04-25
NOTE14 NOTE2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 1.0.0

READMENoVignettesYes · 1 · dynamicNEWSYes · 33% structured · does not mention 1.0.0Citation fileNoWebsitenot declared in DESCRIPTION

Help pages: 2
Examples that run: 100%2 run in a plain check
Exported functions with examples: 100%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 100%
Help pages citing references: 50%

Vignettes (1)

FeatureTerminatoR HTML

How these are measured

Downloads

3.1K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #15,230 · ~9/day · ~261/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

29330 days

79990 days

3.1K1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on66 r2u5 autocran

How downloads are counted

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

9 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing FeatureTerminatoR adds 64 packages (35 with compiled code, 48 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: stringi 11 MB, ggplot2 6.0 MB, data.table 5.7 MB.

Depends (0)

none

Imports (9)

ggplot2 caret tibble dplyrstatsutilslatticee1071 randomForest

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (3)

knitr markdown rmarkdown

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

0direct

0indirect

Suggested by 1

Suggests, most downloaded first

ConfusionTableR

How these are counted

Code & Tests

People & History

People (1)

Gary Hutson

Author, Maintainer since 1.0.0 (2021)

Releases (1)

R
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
R
R 4.2.0 released · 2022-04-22
1.0.0Latest
record
2021-07-14 · current release
R
R 4.1.0 released · 2021-05-18

Package metadata

First published: 2021-07-14
Total releases: 1 / 5 yrs
License: GPL-3 OSI
Download size: 153 KB

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("FeatureTerminatoR")

Format

Hutson, G. (2021). FeatureTerminatoR: Feature Selection Engine to Remove Features with Minimal Predictive Power (Version 1.0.0) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.FeatureTerminatoR

This package has no citation file, so citation() returns this entry built from DESCRIPTION.

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Format

APA

Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for FeatureTerminatoR version 1.0.0 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-23. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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