R Observatory: Metrics for vimp version 2.3.6

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

vimp

2.3.6Package record

Perform Inference on Algorithm-Agnostic Variable Importance

1packages dependsuggested by 2

7.5Kdownloads / year

79.9%test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Brian D. WilliamsonCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Website ↗Issues ↗

Calculate point estimates of and valid confidence intervals for nonparametric, algorithm-agnostic variable importance measures in high and low dimensions, using flexible estimators of the underlying regression functions. For more information about the methods, please see Williamson et al. (Biometrics, 2020), Williamson et al. (JASA, 2021), and Williamson and Feng (ICML, 2020).

Changes in 2.3.6

Major changes

Update the way that PPV, NPV, sensitivity, and specificity are calculated so that they return meaningful answers if all predictions are the same (for example, if using the mean outcome value to predict)

Minor changes

Add tests for PPV, NPV, sensitivity, specificity

From NEWS.md in the release

Install

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

install.packages("vimp", 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("bdwilliamson/vimp")

Development version from bdwilliamson/vimp. 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-vimp

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-vimp

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-vimp

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: 5.6 min · r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

Status changes

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

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 2.3.6

README· In the repository, left out of the releaseVignettesYes · 4 · dynamicNEWSYes · 100% structured · mentions 2.3.6Citation fileNoWebsiteYes · pkgdown

Help pages: 56 (1 internal)includes a package overview page
Examples that run: 100%12 run in a plain check
Exported functions with examples: 26%
Documented parameters: 94%
Return-value docs: 98%
Help pages citing references: 0%

Vignettes (4)

How these are measured

Downloads

7.5K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #5,581 · ~21/day · ~625/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

63830 days

1.5K90 days

7.5K1 year

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Also on84 r2u7 autocran

How downloads are counted

Repository

bdwilliamson/vimp ↗Account: bdwilliamson

24Stars

8Forks

0Open issues

0Open PRs

28Releases

1,067Commits

4Commit identities

statistical-inferencemachine-learningvariable-importancenonparametric-statistics

1,067 commits · Last activity 2026-05-18 · 0% stars, 30d · Default branch at 2.3.8, ahead of CRAN 2.3.6 (checked 2026-10-18)

Responsiveness

How these are sampled

PRs merged (all time): 100%
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed issues: 2
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed PRs: 0

Stars over time

2025-03-14 · 242026-07-07 · 24

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

9 development-tooling and community-health practices detected across 4 families in the upstream repository

Checks run against github.com/bdwilliamson/vimp on 2026-10-18.

Continuous integration (3)

GitHub ActionsR CMD check workflowTravis CI (config file)

The R CMD check workflow runs on Linux

Docs source (3)

pkgdown

GitHub Pages site last deployed 2026-05-18 · The repository has a site deploy workflow

pkgdown site last built 2026-05-18

Coverage (1)

Coverage reporting (Codecov)

CRAN release process (2)

cran-comments.mdCRAN-SUBMISSION

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

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

23 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing vimp adds 27 packages (15 with compiled code, 17 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: data.table 5.7 MB, gplots 4.6 MB, vctrs 1.0 MB.

Depends (1)

R >= 3.1.0

Imports (10)

SuperLearnerstatsdplyr magrittr ROCR tibble rlangMASSdata.tableboot

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (16)

knitr rmarkdown gam xgboost glmnet ranger polspline quadprog covr testthat ggplot2 cowplot cvAUC tidyselect WeightedROC purrr

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

1direct

0indirect

Imports 1

Suggested by 2

Depends, Imports or LinkingTo, most downloaded first

lvimp

Suggests, most downloaded first

tidyhte flevr

How these are counted

Code & Tests

Datasets

People & History

People (5)

Brian D. Williamson

Author, Maintainer since 1.0.0 (2018)

Jean Feng

Contributor · added in 2.1.6

Charlie Wolock

Contributor · added in 2.3.3

Marco Carone

Thesis advisor

Noah Simon

Thesis advisor

Releases (22)

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R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
2.3.6Latest
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2025-08-28 · current release · diff ↗
2.3.5
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2025-07-23 · diff ↗ ·
added 4 exports
measure_npv, measure_ppv, measure_sensitivity, measure_specificity
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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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2022-12-09 · diff ↗
2.3.0
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2022-11-14 · diff ↗ ·
added 6 exports
estimate, estimate_nuisances, get_test_set, measure_average_value, predictiveness_measure, process_arg_lst
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R 4.2.0 released · 2022-04-22
2.2.5
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2.2.1
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2021-06-03 · diff ↗ ·
added 11 exports
bootstrap_se, check_fitted_values, check_inputs, create_z, extract_sampled_split_predictions, get_cv_sl_folds, get_full_type, make_folds, make_kfold, run_sl, scale_est
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R 4.1.0 released · 2021-05-18

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2.1.9
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2021-03-01 · diff ↗
2.1.6
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2021-01-09 · diff ↗ ·
removed 10 exports
cv_predictiveness_point_est, cv_predictiveness_update, cv_vimp_point_est, cv_vimp_update, predictiveness_ci, predictiveness_point_est, predictiveness_se, predictiveness_update, vimp_point_est, vimp_update

added 3 exports
est_predictiveness, est_predictiveness_cv, measure_anova
2.1.0
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2020-06-18 · diff ↗ ·
added 4 exports
sample_subsets, sp_vim, spvim_ics, spvim_se
2.0.2
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2020-04-27 · diff ↗ ·
removed 6 exports
cv_vim_nodonsker, run_sl, sample_subsets, sp_vim, spvim_ics, spvim_se
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R 4.0.0 released · 2020-04-24
2.0.1
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2020-04-12 · diff ↗ ·
removed 2 exports
onestep_based_estimator, two_validation_set_cv

added 27 exports
cv_predictiveness_point_est, cv_predictiveness_update, cv_vimp_point_est, cv_vimp_update, measure_accuracy, measure_auc, measure_cross_entropy, measure_deviance, measure_mse, measure_r_squared, predictiveness_ci, predictiveness_point_est, predictiveness_se, predictiveness_update, run_sl, sample_subsets, sp_vim, spvim_ics, spvim_se, vim, vimp_accuracy, vimp_anova, vimp_auc, vimp_deviance, vimp_hypothesis_test, vimp_point_est, vimp_rsquared
1.1.6
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R 3.6.0 released · 2019-04-26
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2018-10-14 · diff ↗
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2018-10-02 · diff ↗
1.1.2
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2018-09-21 · diff ↗ ·
added 2 exports
cv_vim_nodonsker, two_validation_set_cv
1.1.0
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2018-08-10 · diff ↗
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2018-06-24
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R 3.5.0 released · 2018-04-23

Package metadata

First published: 2018-06-24
Total releases: 22 / 8 yrs
License: MIT + file LICENSE OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 3.1.0
Bundled data: 38 KB / 1 file
Download size: 368 KB

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Williamson, B. D., Carone, M., Feng, J., Simon, N., & Wolock, C. (2025). vimp: Perform Inference on Algorithm-Agnostic Variable Importance (Version 2.3.6) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.vimp

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Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for vimp version 2.3.6 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-20. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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