R Observatory: Metrics for collinear version 3.0.2

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

collinear

3.0.2

Automated Multicollinearity Management

0packages depend

6Kdownloads / year

96.1%test coverage

13/13checks pass

Overview

About

Maintained by Blas M. BenitoFirst published 2023-10-247 releasesCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗

Provides a comprehensive and automated workflow for managing multicollinearity in data frames with numeric and/or categorical variables. The package integrates five robust methods into a single function: (1) target encoding of categorical variables based on response values (Micci-Barreca, 2001 (Micci-Barreca, D. 2001 doi:10.1145/507533.507538); (2) automated feature prioritization to preserve key predictors during filtering; (3 and 4) pairwise correlation and VIF filtering across all variable types (numeric–numeric, numeric–categorical, and categorical–categorical); (5) adaptive correlation and VIF thresholds. Together, these methods enable a reliable multicollinearity management in most use cases while maintaining model integrity. The package also supports parallel processing and progress tracking via the packages 'future' and 'progressr', and provides seamless integration with the 'tidymodels' ecosystem through a dedicated recipe step.

Install

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

install.packages("collinear", 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("blasbenito/collinear")

Development version from blasbenito/collinear. 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-collinear

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-collinear

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-collinear

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

Health

CRAN checks

13OK

Slowest check: 4.1 min · r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

Code health

Yes

Tests · ratio 0.81

96.1%

Coverage · measured lines

100%

Documentation · exports

7

Dependencies · direct

Check history

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ERROR2026-06-08
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Documentation

READMEYes · 712 wordsVignettesNopkgdown siteNoNEWSYes · 100% structuredCode of conductNoContributing guideNo

Examples that run: 98%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 100%
References docs: 10%

Downloads

6K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #5,348 · ~16/day · ~497/mo

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Repository

GitHub ↗ blasbenito/collinear

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5Releases

272Commits

4Contributors

machine-learningmulticollinearityr-packagestatistics

272 commits · Last activity 2026-08-17 · +5.6% stars, 30d

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Repository practices

Upstream repositoryBeta

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

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Continuous integration (1)

GitHub Actions

CRAN release process (2)

cran-comments.mdCRAN-SUBMISSION

Docs source (1)

README.Rmd

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Dependencies

Declared dependencies

9 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Depends (1)

R >= 4.1.0

Imports (7)

progressr future.applymgcvranger recipes rlang spatialData

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (3)

future testthat spelling

Enhances (0)

none

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Nothing depends on this yet.

Code & Tests

Datasets

People & History

People (1)

Maintainer (1)

Blas M. Benito

Author, Maintainer, Copyright holder · added in 1.1.0

Authors (1)

Blas M. Benito

Author, Maintainer, Copyright holder · added in 1.1.0

Copyright holders (1)

Blas M. Benito

Author, Maintainer, Copyright holder · added in 1.1.0

Listed in earlier versions (1)

Blas Benito

no longer listed · 1.0.1

Package Timeline

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

3.0.2Latest
2026-06-04 · current release · diff ↗
3.0.1
2026-05-07 · diff ↗
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R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
3.0.0
2025-12-08 · diff ↗
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R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11
2.0.0
2024-11-08 · diff ↗
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R 4.4.0 released · 2024-04-24
1.1.1
2023-12-08 · diff ↗
1.1.0
2023-11-30 · diff ↗
1.0.1
2023-10-24
R
R 4.3.0 released · 2023-04-21

Package metadata

First published: 2023-10-24
Total releases: 7 / 3 yrs
License: MIT + file LICENSE OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 4.1.0
Bundled data: 347 KB / 5 files
Download size: 464 KB
Installed size: not tracked yet
With dependencies: not tracked yet

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Format

Benito, B. M. (2026). collinear: Automated Multicollinearity Management (Version 3.0.2) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.collinear

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Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for collinear version 3.0.2 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-08-25. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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