R Observatory: Metrics for live version 1.5.13

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

live

1.5.13Package record

Local Interpretable (Model-Agnostic) Visual Explanations

0packages depend

3.3Kdownloads / year

96.3%test coverage

11/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Mateusz StaniakCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Issues ↗

Interpretability of complex machine learning models is a growing concern. This package helps to understand key factors that drive the decision made by complicated predictive model (so called black box model). This is achieved through local approximations that are either based on additive regression like model or CART like model that allows for higher interactions. The methodology is based on Tulio Ribeiro, Singh, Guestrin (2016) doi:10.1145/2939672.2939778. More details can be found in Staniak, Biecek (2018) doi:10.32614/RJ-2018-072.

Changes in 1.5.13

Attempted fix for Solaris issues.

From NEWS.md in the release

Install

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

install.packages("live", 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("ModelOriented/live")

Development version from ModelOriented/live. 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-live

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-live

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-live

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:
  ‘e1071’
All declared Imports should be used.

CRAN check page ↗

Slowest check: 3.6 min · r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

Status changes

NOTE11 OK, 2 NOTENow
NOTE12 OK, 2 NOTE2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 1.5.13

READMEYes · 102 wordsVignettesYes · 1 · dynamicNEWSYes · 100% structured · mentions 1.5.13Citation fileYes · cites a publication

Cites an R Journal article

Help pages: 16includes a package overview page
Examples that run: 0%6 never run
Exported functions with examples: 56%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 100%
Help pages citing references: 6%

Vignettes (1)

"Case study: wine quality" HTML

How these are measured

Downloads

3.3K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #10,896 · ~9/day · ~275/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

39530 days

95790 days

3.3K1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on67 r2u2 autocran

How downloads are counted

Repository

modeloriented/live ↗Organization: ModelOriented

34Stars

5Forks

1Open issues

0Open PRs

11Releases

336Commits

4Commit identities

model-visualizationmachine-learninginterpretabilitylimevisual-explanationsxaiiml

336 commits · Last activity 2019-08-21 · 0% stars, 30d · The default branch showed an older version (1.5.10) than CRAN on 2026-10-18

Responsiveness

How these are sampled

PRs merged (all time): 100%
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed issues: 28
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed PRs: 0

Stars over time

2024-11-06 · 352026-08-07 · 34

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/modeloriented/live on 2026-10-18.

Continuous integration (1)

Travis CI (config file)

Docs source (2)

pkgdown

GitHub Pages site last deployed 2019-08-21

Coverage (2)

Coverage reporting (Codecov).covrignore

Lint, format, editor (1)

RStudio project

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

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

18 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing live adds 67 packages (41 with compiled code, 63 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: stringi 11 MB, ggplot2 6.0 MB, data.table 5.7 MB.

Depends (1)

R >= 3.0.2

Imports (10)

mlr dplyr breakDown data.table forestmodel shinyMASSggplot2 gower e1071

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (9)

knitr rmarkdown testthat glmnet covr DALEX RWeka mda modeltools

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

0direct

0indirect

Nothing depends on this yet.

How these are counted

Code & Tests

Datasets

People & History

People (2)

Mateusz Staniak

Maintainer since 1.4.2 (2018), Author

Przemysław Biecek

Author

Releases (10)

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1.5.13Latest
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2020-01-15 · current release · diff ↗
unarchivedReturned to CRAN
2019-12-18
1.5.12
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2019-12-18 · diff ↗
archivedRemoved from CRAN
2019-12-17
check problems were not corrected in time
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2019-11-16 · diff ↗
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R 3.6.0 released · 2019-04-26
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2019-02-28 · diff ↗
1.5.9
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2018-11-12 · diff ↗ ·
removed 5 exports
add_predictions2, fit_explanation2, plot_explanation, plot_explanation2, sample_locally2
1.5.8
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2018-09-24 · diff ↗ ·
added 2 exports
local_approximation, local_permutation_importance

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1.5.7
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2018-06-03 · diff ↗ ·
added 1 export
live_shiny
1.5.4
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2018-05-14 · diff ↗
1.5.3
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2018-05-05 · diff ↗ ·
added 7 exports
add_predictions2, euclidean_kernel, fit_explanation2, gaussian_kernel, identity_kernel, plot_explanation2, sample_locally2
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R 3.5.0 released · 2018-04-23
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R 3.4.0 released · 2017-04-21

Package metadata

First published: 2018-04-03
Total releases: 10 / 8 yrs
License: MIT + file LICENSE OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 3.0.2
Bundled data: 22 KB / 1 file
Download size: 134 KB

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' entry:

citation("live")

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

It points to 10.32614/rj-2018-072.

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Format

APA

Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for live version 1.5.13 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-21. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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