R Observatory: Metrics for pRF version 1.2

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

pRF

1.2

Permutation Significance for Random Forests

0packages depend

2.3Kdownloads / year

–test coverage

11/13checks pass

Overview

About

Maintained by Ankur ChakravarthyFirst published 2015-03-033 releasesCRAN page ↗

Estimate False Discovery Rates (FDRs) for importance metrics from random forest runs.

Install

R (CRAN)Ubuntu (r2u)

install.packages("pRF", 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-prf

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

Health

CRAN checks

2NOTE11OK

Failing flavors

NOTE r-devel-linux-x86_64-debian-clang
NOTE r-devel-linux-x86_64-debian-gcc

Slowest check: 2.7 min · r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

Code health

None

Tests · ratio 0.00

not tracked

Coverage

100%

Documentation · exports

6

Dependencies · direct

Check history

NOTE2026-06-09
11 OK · 2 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
WARNING2026-06-08
11 OK · 1 NOTE · 1 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
NOTE2026-03-10
12 OK · 2 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE

Documentation

READMENoVignettesNopkgdown siteNoNEWSNoCode of conductNoContributing guideNo

Examples that run: 100%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 100%
References docs: 67%

Downloads

2.3K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #17,039 · ~6/day · ~195/mo

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16330 days

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2.3K1 year

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Dependencies

Declared dependencies

6 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Depends (1)

R >= 3.1.0

Imports (6)

ggplot2 permute randomForest reshape2 dplyr multtest

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Suggests (0)

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Enhances (0)

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Listed in earlier versions (1)

Ankur Chakravarthy

no longer listed · 1.0 to 1.2

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Package metadata

First published: 2015-03-03
Total releases: 3 / 11 yrs
License: GPL-3 OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 3.1.0
Download size: 4.5 KB
Installed size: not tracked yet
With dependencies: not tracked yet

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Format

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Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for pRF version 1.2 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-08-18. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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