R Observatory: Metrics for missRanger version 2.6.1

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

missRanger

2.6.1

Fast Imputation of Missing Values

9packages depend

61.7Kdownloads / year

97.0%test coverage

13/13checks pass

Overview

About

Maintained by Michael MayerFirst published 2017-08-2516 releasesCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗

Alternative implementation of the beautiful 'MissForest' algorithm used to impute mixed-type data sets by chaining random forests, introduced by Stekhoven, D.J. and Buehlmann, P. (2012) doi:10.1093/bioinformatics/btr597. Under the hood, it uses the lightning fast random forest package 'ranger'. Between the iterative model fitting, we offer the option of using predictive mean matching. This firstly avoids imputation with values not already present in the original data (like a value 0.3334 in 0-1 coded variable). Secondly, predictive mean matching tries to raise the variance in the resulting conditional distributions to a realistic level. This would allow, e.g., to do multiple imputation when repeating the call to missRanger(). Out-of-sample application is supported as well.

Install

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

install.packages("missRanger", 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("mayer79/missRanger")

Development version from mayer79/missRanger. 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-missranger

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-missRanger

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-missRanger

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

Health

CRAN checks

13OK

Slowest check: 1.7 min · r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

Code health

Yes

Tests · ratio 1.20

97.0%

Coverage · measured lines

100%

Documentation · exports

4

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 · 210 wordsVignettesYes · dynamicpkgdown siteNoNEWSYes · 67% structuredCode of conductNoContributing guideNo

Examples that run: 100%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 100%
References docs: 14%

Downloads

61.7K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #1,841 · ~169/day · ~5.1K/mo

Releases R versions

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Repository

GitHub ↗ mayer79/missranger

72Stars

10Forks

2Open issues

0Open PRs

9Releases

257Commits

9Contributors

rimputationrandom-forestrstatsmachine-learningmissing-values

License GPL-2.0 · 257 commits · Last activity 2025-04-06 · 0% stars, 30d

Stars over time

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Repository practices

Upstream repositoryBeta

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

Checks run against github.com/mayer79/missranger on 2026-08-16.

Continuous integration (1)

GitHub Actions

CRAN release process (3)

cran-comments.mdrevdep/CRAN-SUBMISSION

Lint, format, editor (1)

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Dependencies

Declared dependencies

5 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Depends (1)

R >= 3.5.0

Imports (4)

FNN rangerstatsutils

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (3)

knitr rmarkdown testthat

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

9direct

1indirect

imp4p hdImpute mlim outForest marginaleffects missknn rtemis smriti worcs

Code & Tests

People & History

People (1)

Maintainer (1)

Michael Mayer

Author, Maintainer

Authors (1)

Michael Mayer

Author, Maintainer

Package Timeline

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Package metadata

First published: 2017-08-25
Total releases: 16 / 9 yrs
License: GPL (>= 2) OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 3.5.0
Download size: 69 KB
Installed size: not tracked yet
With dependencies: not tracked yet

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Mayer, M. (2024). missRanger: Fast Imputation of Missing Values (Version 2.6.1) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.missRanger

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Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for missRanger version 2.6.1 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-08-18. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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