R Observatory: Metrics for RFAE version 0.1.0

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

RFAE

0.1.0Package record

Autoencoding Random Forests

0packages depend

1.8Kdownloads / year

74.8%test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Binh Duc VuCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Issues ↗

Autoencoding Random Forests ('RFAE') provide a method to autoencode mixed-type tabular data using Random Forests ('RF'), which involves projecting the data to a latent feature space of user-chosen dimensionality (usually a lower dimension), and then decoding the latent representations back into the input space. The encoding stage is useful for feature engineering and data visualisation tasks, akin to how principal component analysis ('PCA') is used, and the decoding stage is useful for compression and denoising tasks. At its core, 'RFAE' is a post-processing pipeline on a trained random forest model. This means that it can accept any trained RF of 'ranger' object type: 'RF', 'URF' or 'ARF'. Because of this, it inherits Random Forests' robust performance and capacity to seamlessly handle mixed-type tabular data. For more details, see Vu et al. (2025) doi:10.48550/arXiv.2505.21441.

Install

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

install.packages("RFAE", 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("bips-hb/RFAE")

Development version from bips-hb/RFAE. 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-rfae

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-RFAE

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-RFAE

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: 3.4 min · r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

Status changes

OK13 OK2026-09-08
ERROR12 OK, 1 ERROR2026-09-07
OK13 OK2026-08-05
NOTE12 OK, 1 NOTE2026-08-01
OK13 OK2026-06-09

Show 4 earlier changesHide 4 earlier changes

ERROR12 OK, 1 ERROR2026-06-08
OK13 OK2026-05-02
ERROR11 OK, 1 ERROR2026-04-25
OK14 OK2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 0.1.0

READMEYes · 242 wordsVignettesYes · 1 · dynamicNEWSNoCitation fileNo

Help pages: 6
Examples that run: 100%4 run in a plain check
Exported functions with examples: 60%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 100%
Help pages citing references: 50%

Vignettes (1)

rfae HTML

How these are measured

Downloads

1.8K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #21,210 · ~5/day · ~147/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

24330 days

63190 days

1.8K1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on49 r2u2 autocran

How downloads are counted

Repository

bips-hb/rfae ↗Organization: bips-hb

13Stars

0Forks

0Open issues

0Open PRs

0Releases

43Commits

3Commit identities

43 commits · Last activity 2026-01-28 · 0% stars, 30d

Responsiveness

not measured

Stars over time

2025-10-27 · 22026-07-07 · 13

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

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

Checks run against github.com/bips-hb/rfae 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

Docs source (3)

pkgdown

GitHub Pages site last deployed 2026-01-28 · The repository has a site deploy workflow

CRAN release process (1)

cran-comments.md

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

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

12 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing RFAE adds 67 packages (38 with compiled code, 50 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: stringi 11 MB, ggplot2 6.0 MB, data.table 5.7 MB.

Depends (1)

R >= 4.4.0

Imports (11)

caret data.table foreachMatrixmethodsmgcvranger RANN RSpectrastatstibble

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (5)

arf ggplot2 knitr rmarkdown testthat

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)

Binh Duc Vu

Author, Maintainer since 0.1.0 (2026)

Jan Kapar

Author

David S. Watson

Author

Marvin N. Wright

Author

Releases (1)

R
R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
0.1.0Latest
record
2026-01-17 · current release
R
R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11

Package metadata

First published: 2026-01-17
Total releases: 1 / 1 yrs
License: GPL (>= 3) OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 4.4.0
Download size: 53 KB

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("RFAE")

Format

Vu, B. D., Kapar, J., Watson, D. S., & Wright, M. N. (2026). RFAE: Autoencoding Random Forests (Version 0.1.0) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.RFAE

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

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 RFAE version 0.1.0 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-24. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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