R Observatory: Metrics for grf version 2.6.1

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

grf

2.6.1

Generalized Random Forests

32packages depend

149.2Kdownloads / year

0.0%test coverage

13/13checks pass

Overview

About

Maintained by Erik SverdrupFirst published 2017-07-0427 releasesCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗

Forest-based statistical estimation and inference. GRF provides non-parametric methods for heterogeneous treatment effects estimation (optionally using right-censored outcomes, multiple treatment arms or outcomes, or instrumental variables), as well as least-squares regression, quantile regression, and survival regression, all with support for missing covariates.

Install

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

install.packages("grf", 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("grf-labs/grf")

Development version from grf-labs/grf. 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-grf

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-grf

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-grf

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

Health

CRAN checks

13OK

Slowest check: 12.4 min · r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

Code health

Yes

Tests · ratio 0.00

0.0%

Coverage · measured lines

100%

Documentation · exports

6

Dependencies · direct

Check history

OK2026-08-05
13 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
NOTE2026-08-01
12 OK · 1 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
OK2026-06-09
13 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
WARNING2026-06-08
12 OK · 0 NOTE · 1 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
OK2026-04-25
12 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE

Show 3 earlier snapshots

NOTE2026-04-22
11 OK · 3 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
ERROR2026-04-18
10 OK · 3 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 1 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
NOTE2026-03-10
11 OK · 3 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE

Documentation

READMENoVignettesYes · dynamicpkgdown siteNoNEWSNoCode of conductNoContributing guideNo

Examples that run: 0%
Documented parameters: 91%
Return-value docs: 100%
References docs: 28%

Downloads

149.2K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #1,235 · ~409/day · ~12.4K/mo

Releases R versions

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8.1K30 days

27.1K90 days

149.2K1 year

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Repository

GitHub ↗ grf-labs/grf

1,105Stars

282Forks

68Open issues

0Open PRs

0Releases

2,137Commits

30Contributors

causal-inferencerandom-foresteconometricsmachine-learningstatisticscausal-forest

License GPL-3.0 · 2,137 commits · Last activity 2026-04-30 · +0.2% stars, 30d

Stars over time

2025-08-06 · 1,0322026-08-15 · 1,104

Repository practices

Upstream repositoryBeta

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

Checks run against github.com/grf-labs/grf on 2026-08-16.

Continuous integration (2)

GitHub ActionsAzure Pipelines

Governance and community (1)

Issue templates

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Dependencies

Declared dependencies

12 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Depends (1)

R >= 3.5.0

Imports (6)

DiceKriging lmtestMatrixmethodsRcpp sandwich

LinkingTo (2)

Rcpp RcppEigen

Suggests (8)

DiagrammeRMASSpolicytree rdrobustsurvivaltestthat knitr rmarkdown

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

32direct

2indirect

Code & Tests

Datasets

People & History

People (9)

Maintainer (1)

Erik Sverdrup

Author, Maintainer · added in 0.10.4

Authors (4)

Erik Sverdrup

Author, Maintainer · added in 0.10.4

Susan Athey

Author

Julie Tibshirani

Author

Stefan Wager

Author

Contributors (5)

Rina Friedberg

Contributor · added in 0.9.6

Vitor Hadad

Contributor · added in 0.10.3

David Hirshberg

Contributor · added in 0.10.4

Luke Miner

Contributor · added in 0.9.6

Marvin Wright

Contributor

Listed in earlier versions (1)

all contributors to the included version of Eigen

no longer listed · 0.9.2 to 0.9.4

Package Timeline

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

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R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
2.6.1Latest
2026-03-04 · current release · diff ↗
2.6.0
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2.5.0
2025-10-09 · diff ↗
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R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11
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R 4.4.0 released · 2024-04-24
2.3.2
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2.3.1
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2.3.0
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R 4.3.0 released · 2023-04-21
2.2.1
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2.2.0
2022-08-06 · diff ↗
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R 4.2.0 released · 2022-04-22
2.1.0
2022-03-17 · diff ↗
2.0.2
2021-07-14 · diff ↗

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2.0.1
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R 4.1.0 released · 2021-05-18
1.2.0
2020-06-04 · diff ↗
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R 4.0.0 released · 2020-04-24
1.1.0
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1.0.1
2019-12-06 · diff ↗
1.0.0
2019-12-02 · diff ↗
0.10.4
2019-09-03 · diff ↗
0.10.3
2019-05-27 · diff ↗
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R 3.6.0 released · 2019-04-26
0.10.2
2018-11-24 · diff ↗
0.10.1
2018-09-24 · diff ↗
0.10.0
2018-05-09 · diff ↗
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R 3.5.0 released · 2018-04-23
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2018-04-14 · diff ↗
0.9.5
2018-01-09 · diff ↗
0.9.4
2017-11-27 · diff ↗
0.9.3
2017-07-21 · diff ↗
0.9.2
2017-07-04
R
R 3.4.0 released · 2017-04-21

Package metadata

First published: 2017-07-04
Total releases: 27 / 9 yrs
License: GPL-3 OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 3.5.0
Bundled data: 217 KB / 2 files
Download size: 612 KB
Installed size: not tracked yet
With dependencies: not tracked yet

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Causal Inference Econometrics Machine Learning & Statistical Learning Missing Data

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Sverdrup, E., Athey, S., Friedberg, R., Hadad, V., Hirshberg, D., Miner, L., Tibshirani, J., Wager, S., & Wright, M. (2026). grf: Generalized Random Forests (Version 2.6.1) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.grf

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Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for grf version 2.6.1 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-08-16. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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