R Observatory: Metrics for rfVarImpOOB version 1.0.3

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

rfVarImpOOB

1.0.3Package record

Unbiased Variable Importance for Random Forests

0packages depend

2.4Kdownloads / year

–test coverage

9/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Markus LoecherCRAN page ↗

Computes a novel variable importance for random forests: Impurity reduction importance scores for out-of-bag (OOB) data complementing the existing inbag Gini importance, see also <doi: 10.1080/03610926.2020.1764042>. The Gini impurities for inbag and OOB data are combined in three different ways, after which the information gain is computed at each split. This gain is aggregated for each split variable in a tree and averaged across trees.

Install

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

install.packages("rfVarImpOOB", 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-rfvarimpoob

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-rfVarImpOOB

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-rfVarImpOOB

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

4NOTE9OK

Check messages

NOTECRAN incoming feasibilityr-devel-linux-x86_64-debian-clang, r-devel-linux-x86_64-debian-gcc

Maintainer: ‘Markus Loecher <Markus.Loecher@gmail.com>’

No Authors@R field in DESCRIPTION.
Please add one, modifying
  Authors@R: person(given = "Markus",
                    family = "Loecher",
                    role = c("aut", "cre"),
                    email = "Markus.Loecher@gmail.com")
as necessary.

NOTEdependencies in R coder-devel-linux-x86_64-fedora-clang, r-devel-linux-x86_64-fedora-gcc

Namespace in Imports field not imported from:
  ‘titanic’
All declared Imports should be used.

CRAN check page ↗

Slowest check: 3.2 min · r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

Status changes

NOTE9 OK, 4 NOTE2026-06-09
ERROR9 OK, 3 NOTE, 1 ERROR2026-06-08
NOTE10 OK, 4 NOTE2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 1.0.3

READMENoVignettesYes · 1 · dynamicNEWSNoCitation fileYes · cites a publicationWebsitenot declared in DESCRIPTION

Help pages: 16
Examples that run: 100%15 run in a plain check
Exported functions with examples: 100%
Documented parameters: 99%
Return-value docs: 62%
Help pages citing references: 0%

Vignettes (1)

Unbiased Variable Importance HTML

How these are measured

Downloads

2.4K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #19,640 · ~7/day · ~204/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

23630 days

67690 days

2.4K1 year

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Also on71 r2u6 autocran

How downloads are counted

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

9 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing rfVarImpOOB adds 71 packages (35 with compiled code, 65 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: stringi 11 MB, ggplot2 6.0 MB, doBy 4.3 MB.

Depends (3)

R >= 3.2.2statsrandomForest

Imports (6)

ggplot2 ggpubr dplyr titanic magrittr ranger

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (2)

knitr rmarkdown

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 (from the free-text Author field) (1)

Markus Loecher

Maintainer since 1.0 (2019)

Releases (3)

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R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
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R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11
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R 4.4.0 released · 2024-04-24
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R 4.3.0 released · 2023-04-21
unarchivedReturned to CRAN
2022-07-01
1.0.3Latest
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2022-07-01 · current release · diff ↗
archivedRemoved from CRAN
2022-04-26
requires archived package 'binaryLogic'
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R 4.2.0 released · 2022-04-22
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R 4.1.0 released · 2021-05-18
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2020-10-18 · diff ↗
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R 4.0.0 released · 2020-04-24
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R 3.6.0 released · 2019-04-26
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2019-04-05
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R 3.5.0 released · 2018-04-23

Package metadata

First published: 2019-04-05
Total releases: 3 / 7 yrs
License: GPL (>= 2) OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 3.2.2
Bundled data: 46 KB / 2 files
Download size: 88 KB

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' entry:

citation("rfVarImpOOB")

The package provides a citation file, so citation() returns the authors' own entry.

It points to 10.1080/03610926.2020.1764042.

Cite the R Observatory

For a number measured here: a download total, a coverage figure, an archival date.

Format

APA

Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for rfVarImpOOB version 1.0.3 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-24. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

From data release v2026-10-24, which the citation names so these numbers can be found later. More on citing and the projects behind them.

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