R Observatory: Metrics for NeuralNetTools version 1.5.3

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

NeuralNetTools

1.5.3Package record

Visualization and Analysis Tools for Neural Networks

5packages dependsuggested by 3

78.6Kdownloads / year

–test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Marcus W. BeckCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Issues ↗

Visualization and analysis tools to aid in the interpretation of neural network models. Functions are available for plotting, quantifying variable importance, conducting a sensitivity analysis, and obtaining a simple list of model weights.

Install

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

install.packages("NeuralNetTools", 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("fawda123/NeuralNetTools")

Development version from fawda123/NeuralNetTools. 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-neuralnettools

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-NeuralNetTools

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-NeuralNetTools

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: 2.1 min · r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

Status changes

OK13 OK2026-08-05
NOTE12 OK, 1 NOTE2026-08-01
OK14 OK2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 1.5.3

README· In the repository, left out of the releaseVignettesYes · 1 · dynamicNEWSNoCitation fileYes · cites a publication

Cites a JSS article

Help pages: 14
Examples that run: 100%8 run in a plain check
Exported functions with examples: 100%
Documented parameters: 94%
Return-value docs: 100%
Help pages citing references: 29%

Vignettes (1)

Overview HTML

How these are measured

Downloads

78.6K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #1,630 · ~215/day · ~6.6K/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

4.5K30 days

13.6K90 days

78.6K1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on170 r2u6 autocran100 c2d4u

How downloads are counted

Repository

fawda123/neuralnettools ↗Account: fawda123

72Stars

19Forks

0Open issues

0Open PRs

24Releases

144Commits

2Commit identities

License file reads as CC0-1.0 · 144 commits · Last activity 2022-01-07 · 0% stars, 30d

Responsiveness

How these are sampled

PRs merged (all time): 100%
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed issues: 17
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed PRs: 1

Stars over time

2024-11-06 · 722026-07-07 · 72

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

9 development-tooling and community-health practices detected across 6 families in the upstream repository

Checks run against github.com/fawda123/neuralnettools 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

Governance and community (2)

Contributing guideIssue templates

Docs source (2)

GitHub Pages site last deployed 2022-01-07 · The repository has a site deploy workflow

Reproducibility and dev environment (1)

data-raw/

Show all practicesHide 2 practices

CRAN release process (1)

cran-comments.md

Lint, format, editor (1)

RStudio project

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

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

9 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing NeuralNetTools adds 32 packages (18 with compiled code, 30 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: stringi 11 MB, ggplot2 6.0 MB, Rcpp 1.8 MB.

Depends (1)

R >= 3.1.1

Imports (5)

ggplot2nnetreshape2 scales tidyr

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (5)

caret neuralnet RSNNS knitr rmarkdown

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

5direct

2indirect

Imports 5

Suggested by 3

Depends, Imports or LinkingTo, most downloaded first

radiant.model ModTools NeuralSens kindling SEMdeep

Suggests, most downloaded first

RSNNS tidylearn mpae

How these are counted

Code & Tests

Datasets

People & History

People (1)

Marcus W. Beck

Author, Maintainer since 1.0.0 (2014)

Releases (8)

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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 4.2.0 released · 2022-04-22
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R 4.0.0 released · 2020-04-24
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R 3.6.0 released · 2019-04-26
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R 3.5.0 released · 2018-04-23
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R 3.4.0 released · 2017-04-21
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R 3.3.0 released · 2016-05-03
1.4.0
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2015-12-01 · diff ↗ ·
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1.3.1
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2015-04-27 · diff ↗ ·
removed 18 exports
garson.mlp, garson.nn, garson.nnet, garson.numeric, garson.train, lekprofile.default, lekprofile.mlp, lekprofile.nnet, lekprofile.train, neuralweights.mlp, neuralweights.nn, neuralweights.nnet, neuralweights.numeric, plotnet.mlp, plotnet.nn, plotnet.nnet, plotnet.numeric, plotnet.train

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garson, lekprofile, neuralweights, plotnet, pred_sens
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Package metadata

First published: 2014-12-16
Total releases: 8 / 12 yrs
License: CC0
Minimum R: ≥ 3.1.1
Bundled data: 75 KB / 1 file
Download size: 148 KB

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' entry:

citation("NeuralNetTools")

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

It points to 10.18637/jss.v085.i11.

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 NeuralNetTools version 1.5.3 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-20. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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