R Observatory: Metrics for randomForestVIP version 0.1.3

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

randomForestVIP

0.1.3Package record

Tune Random Forests Based on Variable Importance & Plot Results

0packages depend

6.8Kdownloads / year

95.3%test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Kelvyn BladenCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗

Functions for assessing variable relations and associations prior to modeling with a Random Forest algorithm (although these are relevant for any predictive model). Metrics such as partial correlations and variance inflation factors are tabulated as well as plotted for the user. A function is available for tuning the main Random Forest hyper-parameter based on model performance and variable importance metrics. This grid-search technique provides tables and plots showing the effect of the main hyper-parameter on each of the assessment metrics. It also returns each of the evaluated models to the user. The package also provides superior variable importance plots for individual models. All of the plots are developed so that the user has the ability to edit and improve further upon the plots. Derivations and methodology are described in Bladen (2022) https://digitalcommons.usu.edu/etd/8587/.

Install

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

install.packages("randomForestVIP", 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("KelvynBladen/randomForestVIP")

Development version from KelvynBladen/randomForestVIP. 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-randomforestvip

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-randomForestVIP

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-randomForestVIP

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: 3.7 min · r-release-macos-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 OK2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 0.1.3

READMEYes · 612 wordsVignettesYes · 1 · dynamicNEWSNoCitation fileNoWebsitenot declared in DESCRIPTION

Help pages: 6
Examples that run: 100%4 run in a plain check
Exported functions with examples: 100%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 100%
Help pages citing references: 0%

Vignettes (1)

randomForestVIP Vignette HTML

How these are measured

Downloads

6.8K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #8,189 · ~19/day · ~567/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

33830 days

1.1K90 days

6.8K1 year

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Also on72 r2u6 autocran

How downloads are counted

Repository

kelvynbladen/randomforestvip ↗Account: KelvynBladen

2Stars

0Forks

0Open issues

0Open PRs

1Releases

42Commits

1Commit identities

42 commits · Last activity 2023-12-01 · 0% stars, 30d · Default branch at 0.1.3.9000, ahead of CRAN 0.1.3 (checked 2026-10-18)

Responsiveness

not measured

Stars over time

2025-03-19 · 12026-07-07 · 2

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

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

Checks run against github.com/kelvynbladen/randomforestvip on 2026-10-18.

Continuous integration (2)

GitHub ActionsR CMD check workflow

The R CMD check workflow runs on Linux, macOS and Windows, and on R-devel

Docs source (1)

README.Rmd

Reproducibility and dev environment (1)

data-raw/

CRAN release process (2)

cran-comments.mdrevdep/

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Lint, format, editor (1)

RStudio project

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

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

12 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing randomForestVIP adds 63 packages (34 with compiled code, 56 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: stringi 11 MB, ggplot2 6.0 MB, doBy 4.3 MB.

Depends (1)

R >= 4.0.0

Imports (8)

car dplyr ggplot2 gridExtra minerva randomForeststatstidyr

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (7)

EZtune e1071 knitrMASSrmarkdownrparttestthat (>= 3.0.0)

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)

Kelvyn Bladen

Author, Maintainer since 0.1.3 (2023)

D. Richard Cutler

Author

Listed in earlier versions (1)

Cutler

no longer listed · 0.1.3

Releases (1)

R
R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
R
R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11
R
R 4.4.0 released · 2024-04-24
0.1.3Latest
record
2023-07-19 · current release
R
R 4.3.0 released · 2023-04-21

Package metadata

First published: 2023-07-19
Total releases: 1 / 3 yrs
License: GPL-3 OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 4.0.0
Bundled data: 78 KB / 2 files
Download size: 209 KB

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("randomForestVIP")

Format

Bladen, K., & Cutler, D. R. (2023). randomForestVIP: Tune Random Forests Based on Variable Importance & Plot Results (Version 0.1.3) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.randomForestVIP

This package has no citation file, so citation() returns this entry built from DESCRIPTION.

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Format

APA

Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for randomForestVIP version 0.1.3 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-21. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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