R Observatory: Metrics for curves version 0.4.0

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

curves

0.4.0Package record

Model-Agnostic Response Curves for Fitted Models

0packages depend

2Kdownloads / year

69.8%test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Roozbeh ValaviCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Issues ↗

Create model-agnostic response-curve diagnostics for fitted prediction models. Supports profile curves, partial dependence, individual conditional expectation, and accumulated local effects; univariate curves, bivariate surfaces, ensemble summaries across multiple models, ALE-based interaction ranking, and optional raster-linked exploration with 'terra' and 'shiny'. Static displays are returned as 'ggplot2' plots. For more details on the methods see Molnar (2025) https://christophm.github.io/interpretable-ml-book/.

Changes in 0.4.0

New features

Added interactions(), which ranks numeric predictor pairs by the count-weighted magnitude of their centred second-order ALE surfaces.
Added top_n to bivariate() for method = "ale" so the plotting interface can rank all eligible pairs with interactions() and display only the strongest interaction surfaces.

From NEWS.md in the release

Install

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

install.packages("curves", 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("rvalavi/curves")

Development version from rvalavi/curves. 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-curves

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-curves

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-curves

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: 10.8 min · r-devel-windows-x86_64

Status changes

OK13 OK2026-08-05
NOTE12 OK, 1 NOTE2026-08-01
OK8 OK2026-05-12

Advisories

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Documentation

In release 0.4.0

READMEYes · 534 wordsVignettesYes · 1 · evaluation depends on the environmentNEWSYes · 100% structured · mentions 0.4.0Citation fileNoWebsitenot declared in DESCRIPTION

Help pages: 6 (1 internal)includes a package overview page
Examples that run: 100%5 run in a plain check (2 of them under a condition)
Exported functions with examples: 100%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 100%
Help pages citing references: 100%

Vignettes (1)

Species Distribution Response Curves HTML

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Downloads

2K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #10,834 · ~6/day · ~168/mo

Releases R versions

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34330 days

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Repository

rvalavi/curves ↗Account: rvalavi

4Stars

1Forks

0Open issues

0Open PRs

0Releases

38Commits

1Commit identities

partial-dependence-plotspdpresponse-curvesspatial-modellingspecies-distribution-modelling

38 commits · Last activity 2026-05-15 · 0% stars, 30d

Responsiveness

not measured

Stars over time

2025-03-22 · 22026-07-29 · 4

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PracticesBeta

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

Checks run against github.com/rvalavi/curves on 2026-10-11.

Continuous integration (2)

GitHub ActionsR CMD check workflow

The R CMD check workflow runs on macOS

Lint, format, editor (1)

RStudio project

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

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

10 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing curves adds 18 packages (7 with compiled code, 15 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: ggplot2 6.0 MB, cowplot 1.6 MB, isoband 1.5 MB.

Depends (1)

R >= 3.5.0

Imports (2)

cowplot ggplot2

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (9)

disdat knitrmgcvplotly randomForest rmarkdown shiny terra testthat

Enhances (0)

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People & History

People (1)

Roozbeh Valavi

Author, Maintainer since 0.4.0 (2026)

Releases (1)

0.4.0Latest
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2026-05-11 · current release
R
R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24

Package metadata

First published: 2026-05-11
Total releases: 1 / 1 yrs
License: GPL-3 OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 3.5.0
Download size: 5.4 MB

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citation("curves")

Format

Valavi, R. (2026). curves: Model-Agnostic Response Curves for Fitted Models (Version 0.4.0) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.curves

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APA

Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for curves version 0.4.0 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-18. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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