R Observatory: Metrics for explainer version 1.0.2

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

explainer

1.0.2Package record

Machine Learning Model Explainer

0packages depend

3Kdownloads / year

–test coverage

11/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Ramtin Zargari MarandiCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Website ↗Issues ↗

It enables detailed interpretation of complex classification and regression models through Shapley analysis including data-driven characterization of subgroups of individuals. Furthermore, it facilitates multi-measure model evaluation, model fairness, and decision curve analysis. Additionally, it offers enhanced visualizations with interactive elements.

Install

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

install.packages("explainer", 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("PERSIMUNE/explainer")

Development version from PERSIMUNE/explainer. 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-explainer

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-explainer

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-explainer

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

NOTEdependencies in R coder-devel-linux-x86_64-fedora-clang, r-devel-linux-x86_64-fedora-gcc

Namespace in Imports field not imported from:
  ‘ggpmisc’
All declared Imports should be used.

CRAN check page ↗

Slowest check: 2.7 min · r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

Status changes

NOTE11 OK, 2 NOTE2026-06-09
ERROR10 OK, 2 NOTE, 1 ERROR2026-06-08
NOTE12 OK, 2 NOTE2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 1.0.2

READMEYes · 413 wordsVignettesYes · 1 · dynamicNEWSNoCitation fileYes · cites a publicationWebsiteYes · pkgdown

The repository also keeps web-only articles.

Help pages: 14 (5 internal)includes a package overview page
Examples that run: 54%7 run in a plain check · 6 only when donttest examples are enabled (R CMD check --as-cran)
Exported functions with examples: 100%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 100%
Help pages citing references: 29%

Vignettes (1)

explainer-vignette HTML

How these are measured

Downloads

3K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #11,619 · ~8/day · ~253/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

45430 days

92590 days

3K1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on67 r2u4 autocran

How downloads are counted

Repository

persimune/explainer ↗Organization: PERSIMUNE

21Stars

0Forks

1Open issues

0Open PRs

3Releases

42Commits

2Commit identities

aiexplainabilityexplainable-aimachine-learningstatisticsinterpretabilityshapclassification

42 commits · Last activity 2025-08-17 · 0% stars, 30d

Responsiveness

How these are sampled

PRs merged (all time): 100%
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed issues: 86
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed PRs: 0

Stars over time

2025-08-10 · 192026-07-07 · 21

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/persimune/explainer on 2026-10-18.

Continuous integration (1)

GitHub Actions

Governance and community (1)

Contributing guide

Docs source (3)

pkgdown

GitHub Pages site last deployed 2025-08-17 · The repository has a site deploy workflow

pkgdown site last built 2025-08-17

Lint, format, editor (1)

RStudio project

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

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

30 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing explainer adds 143 packages (69 with compiled code, 126 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: stringi 11 MB, ggplot2 6.0 MB, data.table 5.7 MB.

Depends (0)

none

Imports (14)

cvms data.table dplyr egg ggplot2 ggpmisc ggpubr magrittr plotly tibble tidyr writexl gridExtra scales

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (16)

cowplot mlr3 mlr3learners knitr broom iml forcats mlr3viz plotROC psych reshape2 remotes mlbench ranger precrec rmarkdown

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)

Ramtin Zargari Marandi

Author, Maintainer since 1.0.0 (2023)

Releases (3)

Pick two releases to compare their code metrics.

R
R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
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R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11
1.0.2Latest
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2024-09-30 · current release · diff ↗ ·
added 1 export
eSHAP_plot_multiclass
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R 4.4.0 released · 2024-04-24
1.0.1
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2024-04-18 · diff ↗
1.0.0
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2023-12-15
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R 4.3.0 released · 2023-04-21

Package metadata

First published: 2023-12-15
Total releases: 3 / 3 yrs
License: MIT + file LICENSE OSI
Download size: 76 KB

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("explainer")

The package provides a citation file that builds its entry when R runs it. Run citation() to see it.

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 explainer version 1.0.2 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-21. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

From data release v2026-10-21, which the citation names so these numbers can be found later. More on citing and the projects behind them.

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