R Observatory: Metrics for randomForest version 4.7-1.2

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

randomForest

4.7-1.2

Breiman and Cutlers Random Forests for Classification and Regression

351packages depend

1.4Mdownloads / year

–test coverage

13/13checks pass

Overview

About

Maintained by Andy LiawFirst published 2002-04-0160 releasesCRAN page ↗

Classification and regression based on a forest of trees using random inputs, based on Breiman (2001) DOI:10.1023/A:1010933404324.

Install

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

install.packages("randomForest", 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-randomforest

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-randomForest

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-randomForest

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

Health

CRAN checks

13OK

Slowest check: 2.4 min · r-devel-windows-x86_64

Code health

None

Tests · ratio 0.00

not tracked

Coverage

100%

Documentation · exports

1

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
OK2026-03-10
14 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE

Documentation

READMENoVignettesNopkgdown siteNoNEWSNoCode of conductNoContributing guideNo

Examples that run: 100%
Documented parameters: 76%
Return-value docs: 100%
References docs: 52%

Downloads

1.4M

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #322 · ~3.9K/day · ~117.8K/mo

Releases R versions

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99.5K30 days

342.4K90 days

1.4M1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

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Dependencies

Declared dependencies

1 external dependency (excludes base and recommended)

Depends (2)

R >= 4.1.0stats

Imports (0)

none

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (2)

RColorBrewerMASS

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

351direct

45indirect

and 303 more packages.

Code & Tests

Datasets

People & History

People (4)

Maintainer (1)

Andy Liaw

Author, Maintainer · added in 4.7-1.2

Authors (4)

Andy Liaw

Author, Maintainer · added in 4.7-1.2

Leo Breiman

Author · added in 4.7-1.2

Adele Cutler

Author

Matthew Wiener

Author · added in 4.7-1.2

Listed in earlier versions (3)

Fortran original by Leo Breiman

no longer listed · 1.0 to 4.7-1.1

R port by Andy Liaw

no longer listed · 1.0 to 4.7-1.1

Matthew Wiener.

no longer listed · 1.0 to 4.7-1.1

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Package metadata

First published: 2002-04-01
Total releases: 60 / 24 yrs
License: GPL (>= 2) OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 4.1.0
Bundled data: 6.0 KB / 1 file
Download size: 80 KB
Installed size: not tracked yet
With dependencies: not tracked yet

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Liaw, A., Breiman, L., Cutler, A., & Wiener, M. (2024). randomForest: Breiman and Cutlers Random Forests for Classification and Regression (Version 4.7-1.2) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.randomForest

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