R Observatory: Metrics for breakDown version 0.2.2

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

breakDown

0.2.2Package record

Model Agnostic Explainers for Individual Predictions

1packages depend

7.1Kdownloads / year

62.7%test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Przemyslaw BiecekCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Website ↗Issues ↗

Model agnostic tool for decomposition of predictions from black boxes. Break Down Table shows contributions of every variable to a final prediction. Break Down Plot presents variable contributions in a concise graphical way. This package work for binary classifiers and general regression models.

Install

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

install.packages("breakDown", 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("pbiecek/breakDown")

Development version from pbiecek/breakDown. 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-breakdown

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-breakDown

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-breakDown

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: 11.0 min · r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

Status changes

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

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ERROR12 OK, 1 ERROR2026-06-08
OK14 OK2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 0.2.2

README· In the repository, left out of the releaseVignettesYes · 7 · dynamicNEWSYes · 33% structured · does not mention 0.2.2Citation fileYes · cites a publicationWebsiteYes · pkgdown

Help pages: 10
Examples that run: 33%2 run in a plain check · 4 never run
Exported functions with examples: 67%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 67%
Help pages citing references: 0%

Vignettes (7)

How these are measured

Downloads

7.1K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #6,252 · ~20/day · ~594/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

52330 days

1.3K90 days

7.1K1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on100 r2u31 autocran2.2K conda_forge

How downloads are counted

Repository

pbiecek/breakdown ↗Account: pbiecek

103Stars

16Forks

8Open issues

0Open PRs

0Releases

102Commits

6Commit identities

machine-learninginterpretabilitydata-sciencexaivisual-explanationsiml

102 commits · Last activity 2024-03-12 · 0% stars, 30d

Responsiveness

How these are sampled

PRs merged (all time): 86%
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed issues: 1
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed PRs: 0

Stars over time

2024-11-06 · 1032026-08-11 · 103

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

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

Checks run against github.com/pbiecek/breakdown on 2026-10-22.

Continuous integration (1)

Travis CI (config file)

Governance and community (1)

The repository owner accepts GitHub Sponsors

Docs source (2)

pkgdown

GitHub Pages site last deployed 2024-03-12

Lint, format, editor (1)

RStudio project

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

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

11 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing breakDown adds 17 packages (7 with compiled code, 14 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: ggplot2 6.0 MB, isoband 1.5 MB, farver 1.2 MB.

Depends (1)

R >= 3.0

Imports (1)

ggplot2

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (10)

knitr rmarkdown e1071 kernlab xgboost caret randomForest DALEX ranger testthat

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

1direct

0indirect

Imports 1

Depends, Imports or LinkingTo, most downloaded first

live

How these are counted

Code & Tests

Datasets

People & History

People (2)

Przemyslaw Biecek

Author, Maintainer since 0.1.3 (2018)

Aleksandra Grudziaz

Contributor · added in 0.1.6

Releases (7)

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R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
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R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11
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R 4.4.0 released · 2024-04-24
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R 4.3.0 released · 2023-04-21
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R 4.2.0 released · 2022-04-22
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R 4.1.0 released · 2021-05-18
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R 4.0.0 released · 2020-04-24
0.2.0
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2020-04-05 · diff ↗ ·
added 1 export
break_down
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R 3.6.0 released · 2019-04-26
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2018-06-14 · diff ↗
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R 3.5.0 released · 2018-04-23
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2018-04-06 · diff ↗ ·
added 1 export
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0.1.4
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2018-02-27 · diff ↗
0.1.3
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2018-01-29

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R 3.4.0 released · 2017-04-21

Package metadata

First published: 2018-01-29
Total releases: 7 / 8 yrs
License: GPL-2 OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 3.0
Bundled data: 107 KB / 2 files
Download size: 783 KB

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' entry:

citation("breakDown")

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

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 breakDown version 0.2.2 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-23. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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