R Observatory: Metrics for categoryEncodings version 1.4.3

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

categoryEncodings

1.4.3Package record

Category Variable Encodings

0packages depend

3Kdownloads / year

96.2%test coverage

11/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Juraj SzitasCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Issues ↗

Simple, fast, and automatic encodings for category data using a data.table backend. Most of the methods are an implementation of "Sufficient Representation for Categorical Variables" by Johannemann, Hadad, Athey, Wager (2019) arXiv:1908.09874, particularly their mean, sparse principal component analysis, low rank representation, and multinomial logit encodings.

Install

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

install.packages("categoryEncodings", 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("JSzitas/categoryEncodings")

Development version from JSzitas/categoryEncodings. 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-categoryencodings

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-categoryEncodings

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-categoryEncodings

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

2NOTE11OK

Check messages

NOTECRAN incoming feasibilityr-devel-linux-x86_64-debian-clang, r-devel-linux-x86_64-debian-gcc

Maintainer: ‘Juraj Szitas <szitas.juraj13@gmail.com>’

The Description field contains
  Hadad, Athey, Wager (2019) <arXiv:1908.09874>, particularly their mean,
Please refer to arXiv e-prints via their arXiv DOI <doi:10.48550/arXiv.YYMM.NNNNN>.

CRAN check page ↗

Slowest check: 1.8 min · r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

Status changes

NOTE11 OK, 2 NOTENow
NOTE12 OK, 2 NOTE2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 1.4.3

READMEYes · 231 wordsVignettesNoNEWSNoCitation fileNoWebsitenot declared in DESCRIPTION

Help pages: 12
Examples that run: 100%12 run in a plain check
Exported functions with examples: 100%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 100%
Help pages citing references: 0%

How these are measured

Downloads

3K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #14,563 · ~8/day · ~247/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

27130 days

82690 days

3K1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on88 r2u3 autocran

How downloads are counted

Repository

jszitas/categoryencodings ↗Account: JSzitas

3Stars

1Forks

3Open issues

0Open PRs

0Releases

71Commits

1Commit identities

categorical-variablesfeature-encodingfeature-engineeringrr-package

71 commits · Last activity 2021-09-25 · Default branch at 1.5.0, ahead of CRAN 1.4.3 (checked 2026-10-21)

Responsiveness

How these are sampled

PRs merged (all time): not measured
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed issues: 293
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed PRs: not measured

Stars over time

2021-09-08 · 32026-07-07 · 3

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

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

Checks run against github.com/jszitas/categoryencodings on 2026-10-21.

Continuous integration (3)

GitHub ActionsR CMD check workflowAppVeyor

The R CMD check workflow runs on Linux, macOS and Windows, and on R-devel

Docs source (1)

README.Rmd

Coverage (1)

Coverage reporting (Codecov)

Lint, format, editor (1)

RStudio project

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

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

5 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing categoryEncodings adds 9 packages (4 with compiled code, 16 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: data.table 5.7 MB, rsvd 3.3 MB, glmnet 2.7 MB.

Depends (0)

none

Imports (3)

glmnet sparsepca data.table

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (2)

testthat covr

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

0direct

0indirect

Nothing depends on this yet.

How these are counted

Code & Tests

People & History

People (1)

Juraj Szitas

Author, Maintainer since 1.4.3 (2020)

Releases (1)

R
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
1.4.3Latest
record
2020-03-02 · current release
R
R 3.6.0 released · 2019-04-26

Package metadata

First published: 2020-03-02
Total releases: 1 / 6 yrs
License: GPL-3 OSI
Download size: 10 KB

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("categoryEncodings")

Format

Szitas, J. (2020). categoryEncodings: Category Variable Encodings (Version 1.4.3) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.categoryEncodings

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 categoryEncodings version 1.4.3 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-24. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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