R Observatory: Metrics for varImp version 0.4

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

varImp

0.4Package record

RF Variable Importance for Arbitrary Measures

0packages dependsuggested by 1

45.6Kdownloads / year

57.6%test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Philipp ProbstCRAN 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. 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-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). 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: 2.2 min · r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

Status changes

OK13 OK2026-08-04
NOTE12 OK, 1 NOTE2026-08-01
OK13 OK2026-06-09
ERROR12 OK, 1 ERROR2026-06-08
OK12 OK2026-04-25

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NOTE11 OK, 3 NOTE2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 0.4

READMEYes · 87 wordsVignettesNoNEWSNoCitation fileNoWebsitenot declared in DESCRIPTION

Help pages: 4
Examples that run: 75%3 run in a plain check · 1 never run
Exported functions with examples: 100%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 100%
Help pages citing references: 25%

How these are measured

Downloads

45.6K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #2,681 · ~125/day · ~3.8K/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

1.9K30 days

5.8K90 days

45.6K1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on100 r2u3 autocran676 conda_forge

How downloads are counted

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

4 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing varImp adds 12 packages (7 with compiled code, 16 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: TH.data 8.2 MB, sandwich 1.4 MB, coin 1.2 MB.

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

0direct

0indirect

Suggested by 1

Suggests, most downloaded first

party

How these are counted

Code & Tests

People & History

People (2)

Philipp Probst

Author, Maintainer since 0.1 (2018)

Silke Janitza

Contributor

Releases (4)

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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
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R 4.2.0 released · 2022-04-22
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R 4.1.0 released · 2021-05-18
0.4Latest
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2020-05-23 · current release · diff ↗
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R 4.0.0 released · 2020-04-24
0.3
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2019-05-03 · diff ↗ ·
added 1 export
varImpRanger
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R 3.6.0 released · 2019-04-26
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2018-08-06 · diff ↗
0.1
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2018-07-13
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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

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

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

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 varImp version 0.4 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-25. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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