R Observatory: Metrics for ale version 0.5.3

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

ale

0.5.3

Interpretable Machine Learning and Statistical Inference with Accumulated Local Effects (ALE)

0packages depend

7.7Kdownloads / year

62.1%test coverage

11/13checks pass

Overview

About

Maintained by Chitu OkoliFirst published 2023-08-297 releasesCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗

Accumulated Local Effects (ALE) were initially developed as a model-agnostic approach for global explanations of the results of black-box machine learning algorithms. ALE has a key advantage over other approaches like partial dependency plots (PDP) and SHapley Additive exPlanations (SHAP): its values represent a clean functional decomposition of the model. As such, ALE values are not affected by the presence or absence of interactions among variables in a mode. Moreover, its computation is relatively rapid. This package reimplements the algorithms for calculating ALE data and develops highly interpretable visualizations for plotting these ALE values. It also extends the original ALE concept to add bootstrap-based confidence intervals and ALE-based statistics that can be used for statistical inference. For more details, see Okoli, Chitu. 2023. “Statistical Inference Using Machine Learning and Classical Techniques Based on Accumulated Local Effects (ALE).” arXiv. doi:10.48550/arXiv.2310.09877.

Install

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

install.packages("ale", 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("tripartio/ale")

Development version from tripartio/ale. 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-ale

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

# 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-ale

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-ale

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

Health

CRAN checks

2NOTE11OK

Failing flavors

NOTE r-devel-linux-x86_64-debian-clang
NOTE r-devel-linux-x86_64-debian-gcc

Slowest check: 25.2 min · r-devel-linux-x86_64-debian-clang

Code health

Yes

Tests · ratio 8.93

62.1%

Coverage · measured lines

100%

Documentation · exports

19

Dependencies · direct

Check history

NOTE2026-07-11
12 OK · 1 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
OK2026-06-09
13 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
ERROR2026-06-08
12 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 1 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
OK2026-03-28
14 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
ERROR2026-03-21
13 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 1 ERROR · 0 FAILURE

Show 1 earlier snapshots

OK2026-03-10
14 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE

Documentation

READMEYes · 949 wordsVignettesYes · dynamicpkgdown siteNoNEWSYes · 100% structuredCode of conductNoContributing guideNo

Examples that run: 60%
Documented parameters: 80%
Return-value docs: 88%
References docs: 22%

Downloads

7.7K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #4,952 · ~21/day · ~644/mo

Releases R versions

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38530 days

1.6K90 days

7.7K1 year

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Repository

GitHub ↗ tripartio/ale

5Stars

0Forks

2Open issues

0Open PRs

0Releases

758Commits

1Contributors

758 commits · Last activity 2026-07-02 · 0% stars, 30d

Stars over time

2025-06-10 · 42026-07-07 · 5

Repository practices

Upstream repositoryBeta

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

Checks run against github.com/tripartio/ale on 2026-08-16.

Continuous integration (1)

GitHub Actions

Reproducibility and dev environment (1)

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CRAN release process (3)

cran-comments.mdrevdep/CRAN-SUBMISSION

Docs source (1)

README.Rmd

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Coverage (1)

.covrignore

How this is detected·Detection ruleset v1 (2026-07-18)

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

21 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Depends (1)

R >= 4.2.0

Imports (19)

broom cli dplyr furrr future ggplot2 insightmethodspatchwork progressr purrr rlang S7 staccuracystatsstringr tidyr univariateMLutils

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (7)

knitrmgcvnnetreadr rmarkdown testthat yaImpute

Enhances (0)

none

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Code & Tests

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People & History

People (1)

Maintainer (1)

Chitu Okoli

Author, Maintainer

Authors (1)

Chitu Okoli

Author, Maintainer

Listed in earlier versions (1)

Dan Apley

no longer listed · 0.1.0 to 0.3.1

Package Timeline

7 releases. Pick two to compare their code metrics. R releases are shown for context.

R
R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
0.5.3Latest
2025-09-12 · current release · diff ↗
0.5.2
2025-08-29 · diff ↗
unarchivedReturned to CRAN
2025-08-29
archivedRemoved from CRAN
2025-07-01
issues were not corrected in time
R
R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11
0.5.0
2025-04-09 · diff ↗
0.3.1
2025-03-10 · diff ↗
R
R 4.4.0 released · 2024-04-24
0.3.0
2024-02-14 · diff ↗
0.2.0
2023-10-19 · diff ↗
0.1.0
2023-08-29
R
R 4.3.0 released · 2023-04-21

Package metadata

First published: 2023-08-29
Total releases: 7 / 3 yrs
License: MIT + file LICENSE OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 4.2.0
Bundled data: 235 KB / 2 files
Download size: 1.6 MB
Installed size: not tracked yet
With dependencies: not tracked yet

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Format

Okoli, C. (2025). ale: Interpretable Machine Learning and Statistical Inference with Accumulated Local Effects (ALE) (Version 0.5.3) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.ale

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Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for ale version 0.5.3 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-08-18. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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