R Observatory: Metrics for varSelRF version 0.7-9

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

varSelRF

0.7-9Package record

Variable Selection using Random Forests

0packages depend

9.6Kdownloads / year

–test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Ramon Diaz-UriarteCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Website ↗

Variable selection from random forests using both backwards variable elimination (for the selection of small sets of non-redundant variables) and selection based on the importance spectrum (somewhat similar to scree plots; for the selection of large, potentially highly-correlated variables). Main applications in high-dimensional data (e.g., microarray data, and other genomics and proteomics applications).

Install

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

install.packages("varSelRF", 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("rdiaz02/varSelRF")

Development version from rdiaz02/varSelRF. 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-varselrf

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-varSelRF

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-varSelRF

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: 1.1 min · r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

Status changes

OK13 OK2026-08-04
NOTE12 OK, 1 NOTE2026-08-01
OK13 OK2026-06-08
NOTE12 OK, 1 NOTE2026-06-07
OK14 OK2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 0.7-9

READMEYes · 64 wordsVignettesNoNEWSNoCitation fileYes · cites a publicationWebsiteYes

Help pages: 9
Examples that run: 67%6 run in a plain check · 3 never run
Exported functions with examples: 100%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 100%
Help pages citing references: 100%

How these are measured

Downloads

9.6K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #4,426 · ~26/day · ~804/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

64330 days

1.9K90 days

9.6K1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on245 r2u6 autocran1.2K conda_forge128 c2d4u

How downloads are counted

Repository

rdiaz02/varselrf ↗Account: rdiaz02

13Stars

5Forks

3Open issues

0Open PRs

0Releases

25Commits

7Commit identities

25 commits · Last activity 2026-01-31 · 0% stars, 30d

Responsiveness

How these are sampled

PRs merged (all time): not measured
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed issues: 37
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed PRs: not measured

Stars over time

2022-11-12 · 122026-09-03 · 13

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

Checks run against github.com/rdiaz02/varselrf on 2026-10-11.

No development-tooling practices detected in the upstream repository.

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

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

1 external dependency (excludes base and recommended)

Installing varSelRF adds 1 package (1 with compiled code, 80 KB of source tarballs). Heaviest: randomForest 80 KB.

Depends (3)

R >= 2.0.0randomForestparallel

Imports (0)

none

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (0)

none

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

0direct

0indirect

Nothing depends on this yet.

How these are counted

Code & Tests

People & History

People (1)

Ramon Diaz-Uriarte

Author, Maintainer since 0.5-3 (2005)

Releases (10)

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Package metadata

First published: 2005-05-30
Total releases: 10 / 21 yrs
License: GPL (>= 2) OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 2.0.0
Download size: 29 KB

Appears in task views

Chemometrics and Computational Physics High-Performance and Parallel Computing with R Machine Learning & Statistical Learning

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' entry:

citation("varSelRF")

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

It points to 10.1186/1471-2105-8-328, 10.1186/1471-2105-7-3.

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 varSelRF version 0.7-9 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-19. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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