R Observatory: Metrics for VIM version 7.3.1

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

VIM

7.3.1Package record

Visualization and Imputation of Missing Values

17packages dependsuggested by 10

222.9Kdownloads / year

73.2%test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Matthias TemplCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Issues ↗

Provides methods for imputation and visualization of missing values. It includes graphical tools to explore the amount, structure and patterns of missing and/or imputed values, supporting exploratory data analysis and helping to investigate potential missingness mechanisms (details in Alfons, Templ and Filzmoser, doi:10.1007/s11634-011-0102-y). The quality of imputations can be assessed visually using a wide range of univariate, bivariate and multivariate plots. The package further provides several imputation methods, including efficient implementations of k-nearest neighbour and hot-deck imputation (Kowarik and Templ 2013, doi:10.18637/jss.v074.i07), iterative robust model-based multiple imputation (Templ 2011, doi:10.1016/j.csda.2011.04.012; Templ 2023, doi:10.3390/math11122729), and machine learning–based approaches such as robust GAM-based multiple imputation (Templ 2024, doi:10.1007/s11222-024-10429-1) as well as random forest and gradient boosting (XGBoost) imputation (Niederhametner et al., doi:10.1177/18747655251339401). General background and practical guidance on imputation are provided in the Springer book by Templ (2023) doi:10.1007/978-3-031-30073-8.

Changes in 7.3.1

**The mlr3 stack moved from Imports to Suggests.** mlr3, mlr3pipelines, mlr3learners, mlr3tuning, paradox, R6 and future back vimpute() and nothing else -- 6 of 58 R files -- yet as hard dependencies they tied VIM, and every package importing VIM, to the fate of the mlr3 chain: CRAN archives reverse dependencies recursively, so one archived link would have taken VIM down and sdcMicro, simPop, robCompositions, riskutility, deepImp and 15 further packages with it. None of those packages executes a line of mlr3-backed code; they use kNN(), hotdeck() and gowerD(), which are mlr3-free. VIM now installs, loads and runs its visualisation, donor and IRMI machinery without the stack present. vimpute() -- and regressionImp(), rangerImpute(), xgboostImpute() and overimpute(), which delegate to it -- stop with an actionable message naming every missing package when the stack is absent. No behavioural change when it is installed.

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vimpute() no longer calls lgr::get_logger() unconditionally; lgr is a suggested package and is now checked before use.
CRAN check-time reductions for the r-devel-windows 10-minute budget: the vimpute and vimpute-mi vignettes are precomputed like the simulation vignettes (code runs in vignettes/precompute.R, the check renders text only), and thirteen further long-running regression-test files run only with NOT_CRAN=true (CI and devtools::check()). No user-facing changes.

From NEWS.md in the release

Install

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

install.packages("VIM", 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("statistikat/VIM")

Development version from statistikat/VIM. 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-vim

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-VIM

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-VIM

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: 9.3 min · r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

Status changes

OK13 OK2026-08-05
NOTE12 OK, 1 NOTE2026-08-01
OK13 OK2026-06-09
ERROR12 OK, 1 ERROR2026-06-08
OK12 OK2026-04-25

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NOTE11 OK, 3 NOTE2026-04-22
ERROR10 OK, 3 NOTE, 1 ERROR2026-04-18
NOTE11 OK, 3 NOTE2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 7.3.1

README· In the repository, left out of the releaseVignettesYes · 12 · dynamicNEWSYes · 100% structured · mentions 7.3.1Citation fileYes · cites a publication

Cites a JSS article

Help pages: 102 (21 internal)includes a package overview page
Examples that run: 76%55 run in a plain check · 4 only when donttest examples are enabled (R CMD check --as-cran) · 13 never run
Exported functions with examples: 85%
Documented parameters: 93%
Return-value docs: 72%
Help pages citing references: 35%

Vignettes (12)

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How these are measured

Downloads

222.9K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #969 · ~611/day · ~18.6K/mo

Releases R versions

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14.8K30 days

42K90 days

222.9K1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on28.9K r2u12 autocran11.9K conda_forge230 c2d4u

How downloads are counted

Repository

statistikat/vim ↗Organization: statistikat

93Stars

15Forks

2Open issues

0Open PRs

11Releases

929Commits

24Commit identities

rimputation-methodsvisualizationhotdeckmodel-predictions

929 commits · Last activity 2026-09-22 · 0% stars, 30d · Default branch at 7.5.1, ahead of CRAN 7.3.1 (checked 2026-10-11)

Responsiveness

How these are sampled

PRs merged (all time): 82%
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed issues: 27
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed PRs: 0

Stars over time

2025-08-24 · 862026-08-05 · 93

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

7 development-tooling and community-health practices detected across 4 families in the upstream repository

Checks run against github.com/statistikat/vim on 2026-10-11.

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 2026-09-22 · The repository has a site deploy workflow

Coverage (1)

Coverage reporting (Codecov)

CRAN release process (1)

cran-comments.md

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

AI coding toolsBeta

This repository shows signs of AI coding tools.

Claude Codefirst seen 2026-02-24
Named in .Rbuildignore: .claude, CLAUDE.md
Named in .gitignore: .claude, CLAUDE.md
Commits: at least 60 crediting it in the message
Codexfirst seen 2026-04-28
Named in .gitignore: .codex

Models named in its commits

Claude Opus 542 commits · Sep 2026
Claude Sonnet 514 commits · Sep 2026
Claude Fable 5.12 commits · Sep 2026
Claude Opus 4.62 commits · Feb 2026

Counts are commits, not lines of code. Commits by a tool's accounts count once across all of its accounts. Commits crediting it are the largest count among its credit lines, a minimum.How this is detected·Detection ruleset v4 (updated 2026-09-27)

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

39 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing VIM adds 16 packages (13 with compiled code, 25 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: data.table 5.7 MB, sp 4.3 MB, laeken 2.8 MB.

Depends (3)

R >= 4.1.0colorspacegrid

Imports (17)

grDevicesrobustbasestatssp vcdnnete1071methodsRcpputilsgraphicslaeken rangerMASSMatrixxgboost data.table

LinkingTo (1)

Rcpp

Suggests (30)

mlr3 mlr3pipelines mlr3learners mlr3tuning paradox R6 future dplyr tinytest knitrmgcvrmarkdown reactable covr withr pdist enetLTS robmixglm stringr glmnet validate ECOSolveR cellWise crmReg mice car lgrrpartmissRanger tidyr

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

17direct

2indirect

Imports 17

Suggested by 10

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Depends, Imports or LinkingTo, most downloaded first

simputation robCompositions sdcMicro simPop promor FuzzyImputationTest DTSR cataScience riskutility lfproQC pguIMP onlineBcp missPLS blockwise MAICtools MIGEE deepImp

Suggests, most downloaded first

micemd eHDPrep bioLeak fastml clusterMI pandemonium missknn heaping risdr DataFusionGDM

How these are counted

Code & Tests

Datasets

People & History

People (9)

Matthias Templ

Author, Maintainer since 3.0.2 (2012)

Andreas Alfons

Author

Johannes Gussenbauer

Author · added in 7.0.0

Alexander Kowarik

Author

Nina Niederhametner

Author · added in 7.0.0

Wolfgang Rannetbauer

Author · added in 6.1.0

Eileen Vattheuer

Author · added in 7.0.0

Gregor de Cillia

Author · added in 6.0.0

Bernd Prantner

Contributor

Releases (21)

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7.3.1Latest
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2026-09-11 · current release · diff ↗
7.3.0
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2026-09-02 · diff ↗ ·
added 25 exports
as.mids.vimmi, cellWeightsMCD, imputeCellEM, imputeCellIRMI, imputeCellM, imputeCellMCD, imputeCellMM, imputeCellReg, imputeCellwise, makeMissing, overimpute, register_vimpute_method, unregister_vimpute_method, vim_as_mids, vim_complete, vimpute_methods, vimpute_search_space, vimpute_spec, vimpute_tune_control, vs_gam, vs_ranger, vs_regularized, vs_robgam, vs_robust, vs_xgboost
R
R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
7.0.0
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2026-01-10 · diff ↗ ·
added 1 export
vimpute
6.2.6
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2025-09-18 · diff ↗ ·
added 3 exports
imputeRobust, imputeRobustChain, xgboostImpute
R
R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11
R
R 4.4.0 released · 2024-04-24
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R 4.3.0 released · 2023-04-21
6.2.2
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2022-08-25 · diff ↗ ·
added 1 export
impPCA
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R 4.2.0 released · 2022-04-22
6.1.1
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2021-07-22 · diff ↗ ·
added 1 export
medianSamp
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R 4.1.0 released · 2021-05-18
6.1.0
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2021-01-19 · diff ↗ ·
added 1 export
tableMiss
6.0.0
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2020-05-08 · diff ↗ ·
removed 9 exports
aggr_work, existsVm, getVm, lr, mape, putVm, rmVm, smape, vmGUIenvir

added 1 export
rangerImpute
R
R 4.0.0 released · 2020-04-24
5.1.1
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2020-03-10 · diff ↗ ·
added 3 exports
lr, mape, smape

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5.1.0
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2020-02-05 · diff ↗ ·
removed 1 export
plot.aggr

added 6 exports
aggr_work, evaluation, msecor, msecov, nrmse, pfc
R
R 3.6.0 released · 2019-04-26
4.8.0
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2019-02-11 · diff ↗ ·
removed 1 export
which.minN

added 2 exports
gapMiss, matchImpute
R
R 3.5.0 released · 2018-04-23
R
R 3.4.0 released · 2017-04-21
4.7.0
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2017-04-11 · diff ↗
4.6.0
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2016-10-17 · diff ↗
4.5.0
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2016-06-29 · diff ↗
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R 3.3.0 released · 2016-05-03
4.4.1
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2015-09-15 · diff ↗
4.3.0
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2015-07-07 · diff ↗
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R 3.2.0 released · 2015-04-16
4.1.0
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2014-10-25 · diff ↗ ·
added 4 exports
gowerD, maxCat, sampleCat, which.minN
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R 3.1.0 released · 2014-04-10
4.0.0
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2013-10-10 · diff ↗ ·
removed 13 exports
bubbleMiss, iimagMiss, TKRaggr, TKRmarginmatrix, TKRmatrixplot, TKRparcoordMiss, TKRpbox, TKRscattmatrixMiss, vmGUImenu, gowerD, sampleCat, maxCat, which.minN

added 6 exports
existsVm, getVm, plot.aggr, putVm, regressionImp, rmVm
3.0.3.1
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2013-04-11 · diff ↗
R
R 3.0.0 released · 2013-04-03
3.0.3
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2013-01-09 · diff ↗ ·
added 1 export
vmGUIenvir
removedRemoved from CRAN
2012-10-11
copyright and licence violations and misrepresentation of authorship
3.0.2
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2012-10-11
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R 2.15.0 released · 2012-03-30

Package metadata

First published: 2012-10-11
Total releases: 21 / 14 yrs
License: GPL (>= 2) OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 4.1.0
Bundled data: 807 KB / 18 files
Download size: 4.5 MB

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Missing Data Official Statistics & Survey Statistics

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' entry:

citation("VIM")

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

It points to 10.18637/jss.v074.i07.

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Format

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Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for VIM version 7.3.1 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-18. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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