R Observatory: Metrics for blockForest version 0.2.7

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

blockForest

0.2.7Package record

Block Forests: Random Forests for Blocks of Clinical and Omics Covariate Data

0packages depend

7.9Kdownloads / year

84.2%test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Marvin N. WrightCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Website ↗Issues ↗

A random forest variant 'block forest' ('BlockForest') tailored to the prediction of binary, survival and continuous outcomes using block-structured covariate data, for example, clinical covariates plus measurements of a certain omics data type or multi-omics data, that is, data for which measurements of different types of omics data and/or clinical data for each patient exist. Examples of different omics data types include gene expression measurements, mutation data and copy number variation measurements. Block forest are presented in Hornung & Wright (2019). The package includes four other random forest variants for multi-omics data: 'RandomBlock', 'BlockVarSel', 'VarProb', and 'SplitWeights'. These were also considered in Hornung & Wright (2019), but performed worse than block forest in their comparison study based on 20 real multi-omics data sets. Therefore, we recommend to use block forest ('BlockForest') in applications. The other random forest variants can, however, be consulted for academic purposes, for example, in the context of further methodological developments. Reference: Hornung, R. & Wright, M. N. (2019) Block Forests: random forests for blocks of clinical and omics covariate data. BMC Bioinformatics 20:358. doi:10.1186/s12859-019-2942-y.

Install

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

install.packages("blockForest", 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/blockForest")

Development version from bips-hb/blockForest. 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-blockforest

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-blockForest

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-blockForest

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: 5.5 min · r-devel-windows-x86_64

Status changes

OK13 OK2026-08-05
NOTE12 OK, 1 NOTE2026-08-01
OK12 OK2026-04-25
NOTE12 OK, 2 NOTE2026-04-22
ERROR11 OK, 2 NOTE, 1 ERROR2026-04-18

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NOTE12 OK, 2 NOTE2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 0.2.7

README· In the repository, left out of the releaseVignettesNoNEWSNoCitation fileNoWebsiteYes · pkgdown

Help pages: 8
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: 38%

How these are measured

Downloads

7.9K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #6,505 · ~22/day · ~660/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

47230 days

1.3K90 days

7.9K1 year

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Also on375 r2u21 autocran

How downloads are counted

Repository

bips-hb/blockforest ↗Organization: bips-hb

9Stars

4Forks

0Open issues

1Open PRs

0Releases

74Commits

3Commit identities

74 commits · Last activity 2026-01-14 · 0% stars, 30d

Responsiveness

How these are sampled

PRs merged (all time): 100%
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed issues: 1,057
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed PRs: 0

Stars over time

2023-05-30 · 72026-09-10 · 9

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

5 development-tooling and community-health practices detected across 2 families in the upstream repository

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

Docs source (3)

pkgdown

GitHub Pages site last deployed 2026-01-14 · The repository has a site deploy workflow

pkgdown site last built 2026-01-14

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

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

4 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing blockForest adds 2 packages (2 with compiled code, 3.5 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: Rcpp 1.8 MB, RcppEigen 1.7 MB.

Depends (1)

R >= 3.1

Imports (4)

RcppMatrixmethodssurvival

LinkingTo (2)

Rcpp RcppEigen

Suggests (1)

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 (2)

Marvin N. Wright

Author, Maintainer since 0.1.7 (2018)

Roman Hornung

Author

Releases (7)

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Package metadata

First published: 2018-12-30
Total releases: 7 / 8 yrs
License: GPL-3 OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 3.1
Download size: 134 KB

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("blockForest")

Format

Wright, M. N., & Hornung, R. (2026). blockForest: Block Forests: Random Forests for Blocks of Clinical and Omics Covariate Data (Version 0.2.7) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.blockForest

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 blockForest version 0.2.7 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-21. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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