R Observatory: Metrics for mlbench version 2.1-11

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

mlbench

2.1-11Package record

Machine Learning Benchmark Problems

7packages dependsuggested by 96

570.5Kdownloads / year

–test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Kurt HornikCRAN page ↗

A collection of artificial and real-world machine learning benchmark problems, including, e.g., several data sets from the UCI repository.

Install

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

install.packages("mlbench", repos = "https://cloud.r-project.org/")

Installs the current CRAN release. Prebuilt binaries on Windows and macOS.

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-mlbench

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-mlbench

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-mlbench

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: 2.5 min · r-devel-windows-x86_64

Status changes

OK13 OK2026-08-05
NOTE12 OK, 1 NOTE2026-08-01
OK13 OK2026-06-09
ERROR12 OK, 1 ERROR2026-06-08
OK14 OK2026-03-27

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WARNING12 OK, 2 WARNING2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 2.1-11

READMEYes · 64 wordsVignettesNoNEWSYes · 0% structuredCitation fileYes · computed when R runs itWebsitenot declared in DESCRIPTION

Help pages: 38
Examples that run: 100%34 run in a plain check
Exported functions with examples: 79%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 95%
Help pages citing references: 61% with a bibliography file

How these are measured

Downloads

570.5K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #562 · ~1.6K/day · ~47.5K/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

34.7K30 days

119.5K90 days

570.5K1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on35K r2u204 autocran40.5K conda_forge273 c2d4u

How downloads are counted

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

0 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing mlbench adds no packages beyond those that come with R.

Depends (1)

R >= 2.10

Imports (0)

none

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (1)

lattice

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

7direct

55indirect

Depends 1 · Imports 6

Suggested by 96

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Depends, Imports or LinkingTo, most downloaded first

mlr3 stream OddsPlotty GAMens CIpostSelect TSDT clusterWebApp

Suggests, most downloaded first

and 55 more packages that suggest it on CRAN ↗

How these are counted

Code & Tests

Datasets

People & History

People (4)

Kurt Hornik

Maintainer since 2.1-5 (2024) · added in 2.1-5

Evgenia Dimitriadou

Author · added in 2.1-5

Friedrich Leisch

Author · added in 0.5-1

maintainer up to 2024

Matthias Templ

Contributor · added in 2.1-11

Previously maintained by Friedrich Leisch (0.5-1 to 2.1-3.1).

Listed in earlier versions (5)

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Fritz Leisch

no longer listed · 0.4-1 to 0.4-3

Evgenia Dimitriadou Original data sets from various sources.

no longer listed · 0.4-1 to 0.4-3

Fritz Leisch Original data sets from various sources.

no longer listed · 0.3-2

Evgenia Dimitriadou. Original data sets from various sources.

no longer listed · 0.5-1 to 2.0-0

Evgenia Dimitriadou.

no longer listed · 2.1-0 to 2.1-3.1

Releases (34)

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2.1-11Latest
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Package metadata

First published: 1999-02-24
Total releases: 34 / 27 yrs
License: GPL-2 OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 2.10
Bundled data: 864 KB / 19 files
Download size: 967 KB

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citation("mlbench")

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Format

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Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for mlbench version 2.1-11 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-18. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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