VSURF

1.2.1

Variable Selection Using Random Forests

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Overview

About

Maintained by Robin GenuerFirst published 2013-05-2816 releasesCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗

Three steps variable selection procedure based on random forests. Initially developed to handle high dimensional data (for which number of variables largely exceeds number of observations), the package is very versatile and can treat most dimensions of data, for regression and supervised classification problems. First step is dedicated to eliminate irrelevant variables from the dataset. Second step aims to select all variables related to the response for interpretation purpose. Third step refines the selection by eliminating redundancy in the set of variables selected by the second step, for prediction purpose. Genuer, R. Poggi, J.-M. and Tuleau-Malot, C. (2015) https://journal.r-project.org/articles/RJ-2015-018/.

Install

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

install.packages("VSURF", 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("robingenuer/VSURF")

Development version from robingenuer/VSURF. 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-vsurf

Fast Ubuntu binaries via r2u (no compilation). The cranapt setup runs once and is skipped when it is already enabled.

bspm (used by r2u) also needs make: sudo apt install make

# 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-VSURF

RPMs auto-built from CRAN on openSUSE OBS (Tumbleweed).

Health

CRAN checks

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Failing flavors

ERROR r-release-macos-arm64

Slowest check: 1.4 min · r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

Check history

ERROR2026-03-10
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Repository

GitHub ↗ robingenuer/vsurf

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Dependencies

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6 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

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R >= 4.2.0

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doParallel foreachparallelrandomForestrpart

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testthat ranger Rborist

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Authors (3)

Robin Genuer

Author, Maintainer

Jean-Michel Poggi

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Christine Tuleau-Malot

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Package metadata

First published: 2013-05-28
Total releases: 16 / 13 yrs
License: GPL (>= 2) OSI
Download size: 336 KB
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