R Observatory: Metrics for varPro version 3.2.0

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

varPro

3.2.0

Model-Independent Variable Selection via the Rule-Based Variable Priority

3packages depend

4.3Kdownloads / year

–test coverage

13/13checks pass

Overview

About

Maintained by Udaya B. KogalurFirst published 2025-12-117 releasesCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗

A new framework of variable selection, which instead of generating artificial covariates such as permutation importance and knockoffs, creates release rules to examine the affect on the response for each covariate where the conditional distribution of the response variable can be arbitrary and unknown.

Install

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

install.packages("varPro", 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("kogalur/varPro")

Development version from kogalur/varPro. 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-varpro

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-varPro

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-varPro

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

Health

CRAN checks

13OK

Slowest check: 4.2 min · r-devel-windows-x86_64

Code health

None

Tests · ratio 0.00

not tracked

Coverage

100%

Documentation · exports

7

Dependencies · direct

Check history

OK2026-08-04
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NOTE2026-08-01
12 OK · 1 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
OK2026-06-09
13 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
ERROR2026-06-08
12 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 1 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
OK2026-04-25
12 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE

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NOTE2026-03-10
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Documentation

READMENoVignettesNopkgdown siteNoNEWSYes · 100% structuredCode of conductNoContributing guideNo

Examples that run: 22%
Documented parameters: 97%
Return-value docs: 100%
References docs: 60%

Downloads

4.3K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #3,928 · ~12/day · ~359/mo

Releases R versions

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61430 days

2.2K90 days

4.3K1 year

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Repository

GitHub ↗ kogalur/varpro

3Stars

1Forks

2Open issues

0Open PRs

0Releases

49Commits

3Contributors

49 commits · Last activity 2026-04-19 · 0% stars, 30d

Stars over time

2024-10-31 · 22026-07-07 · 3

Repository practices

Upstream repositoryBeta

Checks run against github.com/kogalur/varpro on 2026-08-23.

No development-tooling practices detected in the upstream repository.

How this is detected·Detection ruleset v1 (2026-07-18)

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

9 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Depends (1)

R >= 4.3.0

Imports (7)

randomForestSRC glmnetparallelforeach gbm BARTsurvival

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (5)

mlbench doMC caretMASSigraph

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

3direct

0indirect

ggRandomForests randomForestRHF randomForestSGT

Code & Tests

Datasets

People & History

People (4)

Maintainer (1)

Udaya B. Kogalur

Author, Maintainer

Authors (4)

Author, Maintainer

Author

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Package Timeline

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

3.2.0Latest
2026-08-23 · current release · diff ↗
R
R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
3.1.0
2026-04-19 · diff ↗
3.0.0
2026-04-09 · diff ↗
2.1.0
2026-02-12 · diff ↗
2.0.0
2026-01-11 · diff ↗
1.0.1
2025-12-14 · diff ↗
1.0.0
2025-12-11
R
R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11

Package metadata

First published: 2025-12-11
Total releases: 7 / 1 yrs
License: GPL (>= 3) OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 4.3.0
Bundled data: 8.3 MB / 4 files
Download size: 8.5 MB
Installed size: not tracked yet
With dependencies: not tracked yet

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("varPro")

Format

Kogalur, U. B., Ishwaran, H., Lu, M., & Shear, A. K. (2026). varPro: Model-Independent Variable Selection via the Rule-Based Variable Priority (Version 3.2.0) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.varPro

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Format

APA

Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for varPro version 3.2.0 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-08-23. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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