R Observatory: Metrics for GenericML version 0.2.3

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

GenericML

0.2.3Package record

Generic Machine Learning Inference

0packages depend

3.6Kdownloads / year

54.1%test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Max WelzCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Issues ↗

Generic Machine Learning Inference on heterogeneous treatment effects in randomized experiments as proposed in Chernozhukov, Demirer, Duflo and Fernández-Val (2020) doi:10.48550/arXiv.1712.04802. This package's workhorse is the 'mlr3' framework of Lang et al. (2019) doi:10.21105/joss.01903, which enables the specification of a wide variety of machine learners. The main functionality, GenericML(), runs Algorithm 1 in Chernozhukov, Demirer, Duflo and Fernández-Val (2020) doi:10.48550/arXiv.1712.04802 for a suite of user-specified machine learners. All steps in the algorithm are customizable via setup functions. Methods for printing and plotting are available for objects returned by GenericML(). Parallel computing is supported.

Install

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

install.packages("GenericML", 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("mwelz/GenericML")

Development version from mwelz/GenericML. 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-genericml

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-GenericML

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-GenericML

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: 3.1 min · r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

Status changes

OK13 OK2026-08-05
NOTE12 OK, 1 NOTE2026-08-01
OK13 OK2026-07-08
NOTE12 OK, 2 NOTE2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 0.2.3

README· In the repository, left out of the releaseVignettesNoNEWSYes · 100% structured · does not mention 0.2.3Citation fileYes · software entry onlyWebsitenot declared in DESCRIPTION

Description cites a JOSS paper

Help pages: 29
Examples that run: 100%23 run in a plain check
Exported functions with examples: 91%
Documented parameters: 98%
Return-value docs: 100%
Help pages citing references: 45%

How these are measured

Downloads

3.6K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #6,743 · ~10/day · ~297/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

42330 days

1.3K90 days

3.6K1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on79 r2u3 autocran

How downloads are counted

Repository

mwelz/genericml ↗Account: mwelz

80Stars

17Forks

9Open issues

0Open PRs

5Releases

223Commits

1Commit identities

License file reads as GPL-3.0 · 223 commits · Last activity 2026-07-02 · 0% stars, 30d

Responsiveness

How these are sampled

PRs merged (all time): 100%
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed issues: 6
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed PRs: 0

Stars over time

2025-08-13 · 702026-09-24 · 80

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

3 development-tooling and community-health practices detected across 2 families in the upstream repository

Checks run against github.com/mwelz/genericml on 2026-10-22.

Continuous integration (2)

GitHub ActionsR CMD check workflow

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

Lint, format, editor (1)

RStudio project

How this is detected·Detection ruleset v4 (2026-10-20)

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

15 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing GenericML adds 117 packages (60 with compiled code, 89 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: stringi 11 MB, ggplot2 6.0 MB, data.table 5.7 MB.

Depends (3)

ggplot2 mlr3 mlr3learners

Imports (7)

sandwich lmtest splitstackshapestatsparallelabind weights

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (10)

glmnet rangerrparte1071 xgboost kknn DiceKrigingMASSnnettestthat

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

0direct

0indirect

Nothing depends on this yet.

How these are counted

Code & Tests

People & History

People (4)

Max Welz

Author, Maintainer since 0.1.0 (2021)

Andreas Alfons

Author

Victor Chernozhukov

Author

Mert Demirer

Author

Releases (6)

Pick two releases to compare their code metrics.

0.2.3Latest
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2026-07-03 · current release · diff ↗
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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
0.2.2
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2022-06-18 · diff ↗ ·
added 2 exports
get_best, heterogeneity_CLAN
0.2.1
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2022-05-12 · diff ↗
0.2.0
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2022-05-06 · diff ↗ ·
added 3 exports
GenericML_combine, setup_plot, setup_stratify
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R 4.2.0 released · 2022-04-22
0.1.1
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2021-12-07 · diff ↗
0.1.0
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2021-11-24
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R 4.1.0 released · 2021-05-18

Package metadata

First published: 2021-11-24
Total releases: 6 / 5 yrs
License: GPL (>= 3) OSI
Download size: 66 KB

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' entry:

citation("GenericML")

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

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Format

APA

Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for GenericML version 0.2.3 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-25. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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