R Observatory: Metrics for IBLM version 1.0.2

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

IBLM

1.0.2Package record

Interpretable Boosted Linear Models

0packages depend

2.5Kdownloads / year

77.9%test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Karol GawlowskiCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Website ↗Issues ↗

Implements Interpretable Boosted Linear Models (IBLMs). These combine a conventional generalized linear model (GLM) with a machine learning component, such as XGBoost. The package also provides tools within for explaining and analyzing these models. For more details see Gawlowski and Wang (2025) https://ifoa-adswp.github.io/IBLM/reference/figures/iblm_paper.pdf.

Changes in 1.0.2

Major changes

iblm class model objects now require factor variables for categorical features. Users should explicitly convert character columns to factors before training.

New features

Added "IBLM" vignette providing a comprehensive walkthrough of package functionality.

Bug fixes

Fixed bug where all variable types were converted to numeric before training and predicting of booster model, which could lead to improper handling of categorical features.

Internal changes

Updated to maintain compatibility with xgboost v3.1.2.1. Package now requires xgboost >= 3.1.2.1.

From NEWS.md in the release

Install

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

install.packages("IBLM", 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("IFoA-ADSWP/IBLM")

Development version from IFoA-ADSWP/IBLM. 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-iblm

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-IBLM

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-IBLM

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: 6.8 min · r-oldrel-macos-x86_64

Status changes

OK13 OK2026-08-05
NOTE12 OK, 1 NOTE2026-08-01
OK13 OK2026-06-11
ERROR12 OK, 1 ERROR2026-06-09
OK14 OK2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

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Documentation

In release 1.0.2

READMEYes · 191 wordsVignettesYes · 1 · dynamicNEWSYes · 100% structured · mentions 1.0.2Citation fileNoWebsiteYes · pkgdown

Help pages: 26 (1 internal)
Examples that run: 96%23 run in a plain check · 1 only when donttest examples are enabled (R CMD check --as-cran)
Exported functions with examples: 96%
Documented parameters: 96%
Return-value docs: 100%
Help pages citing references: 4%

Vignettes (1)

IBLM

How these are measured

Downloads

2.5K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #14,522 · ~7/day · ~212/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

43830 days

81790 days

2.5K1 year

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Also on70 r2u2 autocran

How downloads are counted

Repository

ifoa-adswp/iblm ↗Organization: IFoA-ADSWP

1Stars

1Forks

5Open issues

1Open PRs

2Releases

267Commits

2Commit identities

267 commits · Last activity 2026-05-23 · 0% stars, 30d · Default branch at 2.0.1, ahead of CRAN 1.0.2 (checked 2026-10-18)

Responsiveness

How these are sampled

PRs merged (all time): 100%
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed issues: 9
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed PRs: 29

Stars over time

2026-03-30 · 12026-07-07 · 1

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

9 development-tooling and community-health practices detected across 5 families in the upstream repository

Checks run against github.com/ifoa-adswp/iblm 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 (3)

pkgdown

GitHub Pages site last deployed 2026-05-23 · The repository has a site deploy workflow

pkgdown site last built 2026-05-23

Reproducibility and dev environment (1)

data-raw/

CRAN release process (2)

cran-comments.mdrevdep/

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Lint, format, editor (1)

RStudio project

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

AI coding toolsBeta

This repository shows signs of AI coding tools.

Claude Codefirst seen 2026-04-10
Pull request it wrote: opened by a project member

How this is detected·Detection ruleset v4 (updated 2026-09-27)

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

15 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing IBLM adds 67 packages (34 with compiled code, 65 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: stringi 11 MB, ggplot2 6.0 MB, data.table 5.7 MB.

Depends (1)

R >= 4.1.0

Imports (12)

cli dplyr fastDummies ggExtra ggplot2 purrr scales statmodstatsutilswithr xgboost

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (5)

knitr rmarkdown testthat gt patchwork

Enhances (0)

none

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Reverse dependencies

0direct

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Nothing depends on this yet.

How these are counted

Code & Tests

Datasets

People & History

People (2)

Karol Gawlowski

Paul Beard

Author

Releases (2)

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Package metadata

First published: 2025-11-19
Total releases: 2 / 1 yrs
License: MIT + file LICENSE OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 4.1.0
Bundled data: 82 KB / 1 file
Download size: 1.2 MB

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("IBLM")

Format

Gawlowski, K., & Beard, P. (2025). IBLM: Interpretable Boosted Linear Models (Version 1.0.2) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.IBLM

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Format

APA

Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for IBLM version 1.0.2 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-21. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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