R Observatory: Metrics for varImp version 0.4

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

varImp

0.4

RF Variable Importance for Arbitrary Measures

1packages depend

62.9Kdownloads / year

57.6%test coverage

13/13checks pass

Overview

About

Maintained by Philipp ProbstFirst published 2018-07-134 releasesCRAN page ↗

Computes the random forest variable importance (VIMP) for the conditional inference random forest (cforest) of the 'party' package. Includes a function (varImp) that computes the VIMP for arbitrary measures from the 'measures' package. For calculating the VIMP regarding the measures accuracy and AUC two extra functions exist (varImpACC and varImpAUC).

Install

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

install.packages("varImp", 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-varimp

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-varImp

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-varImp

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

Health

CRAN checks

13OK

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

Code health

Yes

Tests · ratio 0.10

57.6%

Coverage · measured lines

100%

Documentation · exports

3

Dependencies · direct

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Documentation

READMEYes · 87 wordsVignettesNopkgdown siteNoNEWSNoCode of conductNoContributing guideNo

Examples that run: 75%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 100%
References docs: 25%

Downloads

62.9K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #2,228 · ~172/day · ~5.2K/mo

Releases R versions

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Dependencies

Declared dependencies

4 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Depends (4)

R >= 3.0.0measures partystats

Imports (0)

none

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (2)

testthat ranger

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

1direct

0indirect

party

Code & Tests

People & History

People (2)

Maintainer (1)

Philipp Probst

Author, Maintainer

Authors (1)

Philipp Probst

Author, Maintainer

Contributors (1)

Silke Janitza

Contributor

Package Timeline

4 releases. Pick two to compare their code metrics. R releases are shown for context.

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R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
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R 4.1.0 released · 2021-05-18
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2020-05-23 · current release · diff ↗
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R 3.6.0 released · 2019-04-26
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R 3.5.0 released · 2018-04-23

Package metadata

First published: 2018-07-13
Total releases: 4 / 8 yrs
License: GPL-3 OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 3.0.0
Download size: 8.2 KB
Installed size: not tracked yet
With dependencies: not tracked yet

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("varImp")

Format

Probst, P., & Janitza, S. (2020). varImp: RF Variable Importance for Arbitrary Measures (Version 0.4) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.varImp

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Format

APA

Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for varImp version 0.4 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-08-24. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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