R Observatory: Metrics for important version 0.2.1

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

important

0.2.1

Supervised Feature Selection

0packages depend

3.3Kdownloads / year

94.9%test coverage

13/13checks pass

Overview

About

Maintained by Max KuhnFirst published 2025-08-203 releasesCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗

Interfaces for choosing important predictors in supervised regression, classification, and censored regression models. Permuted importance scores (Biecek and Burzykowski (2021) doi:10.1201/9780429027192) can be computed for 'tidymodels' model fits.

Install

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

install.packages("important", 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("tidymodels/important")

Development version from tidymodels/important. 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-important

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-important

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-important

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

Health

CRAN checks

13OK

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

Code health

Yes

Tests · ratio 0.96

94.9%

Coverage · measured lines

100%

Documentation · exports

17

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
ERROR2026-06-08
12 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 1 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
OK2026-03-10
14 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE

Documentation

READMEYes · 793 wordsVignettesNopkgdown siteNoNEWSYes · 100% structuredCode of conductNoContributing guideNo

Examples that run: 100%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 80%
References docs: 13%

Downloads

3.3K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #13,410 · ~9/day · ~279/mo

Releases R versions

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21830 days

75790 days

3.3K1 year

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Repository

GitHub ↗ tidymodels/important

19Stars

1Forks

6Open issues

1Open PRs

3Releases

34Commits

2Contributors

34 commits · Last activity 2025-10-07

Repository practices

Upstream repositoryBeta

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

Checks run against github.com/tidymodels/important on 2026-08-16.

Continuous integration (1)

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Docs source (1)

README.Rmd

Lint, format, editor (3)

AirVS CodeRStudio project

Coverage (1)

Codecov

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Dependencies

Declared dependencies

27 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Depends (2)

R >= 4.1.0recipes

Imports (16)

cli desirability2 dplyr filtro generics ggplot2 hardhat purrr rlang S7 tibble tidyr tune vctrs withr workflows

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (11)

censored future future.apply mirai modeldata parsnip ranger spellingsurvivaltestthat yardstick

Enhances (0)

none

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Reverse dependencies

0direct

0indirect

Nothing depends on this yet.

Code & Tests

People & History

People (2)

Maintainer (1)

Max Kuhn

Author, Maintainer

Authors (1)

Max Kuhn

Author, Maintainer

Copyright holders (1)

Posit Software, PBC

Copyright holder, Funder

Funders (1)

Posit Software, PBC

Copyright holder, Funder

Package Timeline

3 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
0.2.1Latest
2025-10-06 · current release · diff ↗
0.2.0
2025-09-05 · diff ↗
0.0.1
2025-08-20
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R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11

Package metadata

First published: 2025-08-20
Total releases: 3 / 1 yrs
License: MIT + file LICENSE OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 4.1.0
Download size: 229 KB
Installed size: not tracked yet
With dependencies: not tracked yet

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Format

Kuhn, M., & Posit Software, PBC. (2025). important: Supervised Feature Selection (Version 0.2.1) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.important

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Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for important version 0.2.1 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-08-16. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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