R Observatory: Metrics for iml version 0.11.4

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

iml

0.11.4Package record

Interpretable Machine Learning

2packages dependsuggested by 8

82.2Kdownloads / year

–test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Giuseppe CasalicchioCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Website ↗Issues ↗

Interpretability methods to analyze the behavior and predictions of any machine learning model. Implemented methods are: Feature importance described by Fisher et al. (2018) doi:10.48550/arxiv.1801.01489, accumulated local effects plots described by Apley (2018) doi:10.48550/arxiv.1612.08468, partial dependence plots described by Friedman (2001) <www.jstor.org/stable/2699986>, individual conditional expectation ('ice') plots described by Goldstein et al. (2013) doi:10.1080/10618600.2014.907095, local models (variant of 'lime') described by Ribeiro et. al (2016) doi:10.48550/arXiv.1602.04938, the Shapley Value described by Strumbelj et. al (2014) doi:10.1007/s10115-013-0679-x, feature interactions described by Friedman et. al doi:10.1214/07-AOAS148 and tree surrogate models.

Changes in 0.11.4

Fix bug in FeatureEffect when features are stored as integer (PR #219)

From NEWS.md in the release

Install

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

install.packages("iml", 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("giuseppec/iml")

Development version from giuseppec/iml. 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-iml

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-iml

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-iml

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: 5.0 min · r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

Status changes

OK13 OK2026-08-05
NOTE12 OK, 1 NOTE2026-08-01
OK14 OK2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 0.11.4

README· In the repository, left out of the releaseVignettesYes · 2 · dynamicNEWSYes · 100% structured · mentions 0.11.4Citation fileYes · cites a publicationWebsiteYes · pkgdown

Cites a JOSS paper

Help pages: 29 (5 internal)includes a package overview page
Examples that run: 82%14 run in a plain check · 3 never run
Exported functions with examples: 80%
Documented parameters: not tracked
Return-value docs: 0%
Help pages citing references: 24%

Vignettes (2)

How these are measured

Downloads

82.2K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #1,605 · ~225/day · ~6.9K/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

5.5K30 days

14.3K90 days

82.2K1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on1.3K r2u4 autocran2.5K conda_forge91 c2d4u

How downloads are counted

Repository

giuseppec/iml ↗Account: giuseppec

503Stars

87Forks

64Open issues

1Open PRs

9Releases

762Commits

15Commit identities

762 commits · Last activity 2025-02-24 · 0% stars, 30d

Responsiveness

How these are sampled

PRs merged (all time): 89%
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed issues: 30
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed PRs: 0

Stars over time

2025-07-25 · 5002026-09-03 · 503

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

10 development-tooling and community-health practices detected across 7 families in the upstream repository

Checks run against github.com/giuseppec/iml on 2026-10-18.

Continuous integration (2)

GitHub ActionsR CMD check workflow

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

Governance and community (1)

Contributing guide

Docs source (3)

README.Rmdpkgdown

GitHub Pages site last deployed 2024-10-18

Reproducibility and dev environment (1)

Makefile

Show all practicesHide 3 practices

CRAN release process (1)

cran-comments.md

Research and citation (1)

codemeta.json

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 iml adds 28 packages (12 with compiled code, 21 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: ggplot2 6.0 MB, data.table 5.7 MB, isoband 1.5 MB.

Depends (0)

none

Imports (8)

checkmate data.table Formula future future.apply ggplot2 Metrics R6

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (24)

ALEPlot bench bit64 caret covr e1071 future.callr glmnet gower h2o keras knitrMASSmlr mlr3 party partykit patchwork randomForest ranger rmarkdownrparttestthat yaImpute

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

2direct

0indirect

Imports 2

Suggested by 8

Depends, Imports or LinkingTo, most downloaded first

counterfactuals PEAXAI

Suggests, most downloaded first

DALEXtra mlr3fairness mlr3summary fastml explainer sjSDM xplaineff rmlnomogram

How these are counted

Code & Tests

People & History

People (3)

Giuseppe Casalicchio

Author, Maintainer since 0.11.2 (2024) · added in 0.11.2

Christoph Molnar

Author

Patrick Schratz

Author · added in 0.10.0

Previously maintained by Christoph Molnar (0.2.1 to 0.11.1).

Releases (17)

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R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
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R 4.0.0 released · 2020-04-24
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InterpretationMethod
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R 3.6.0 released · 2019-04-26
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2019-02-05 · diff ↗ ·
added 1 export
FeatureEffects

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0.8.1
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FeatureEffect
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R 3.4.0 released · 2017-04-21

Package metadata

First published: 2018-03-13
Total releases: 17 / 8 yrs
License: MIT + file LICENSE OSI
Download size: 161 KB

Appears in task views

Machine Learning & Statistical Learning

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' entry:

citation("iml")

The package provides a citation file, so citation() returns the authors' own entry.

It points to 10.21105/joss.00786.

Cite the R Observatory

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Format

APA

Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for iml version 0.11.4 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-21. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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