R Observatory: Metrics for vimp version 2.3.6

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

vimp

2.3.6

Perform Inference on Algorithm-Agnostic Variable Importance

3packages depend

9Kdownloads / year

79.9%test coverage

13/13checks pass

Overview

About

Maintained by Brian D. WilliamsonFirst published 2018-06-2422 releasesCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗

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).

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.

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).

Health

CRAN checks

13OK

Slowest check: 5.6 min · r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

Code health

Yes

Tests · ratio 0.30

79.9%

Coverage · measured lines

100%

Documentation · exports

10

Dependencies · direct

Check history

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NOTE2026-08-01
12 OK · 1 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
OK2026-03-10
14 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE

Documentation

READMENoVignettesYes · dynamicpkgdown siteNoNEWSYes · 100% structuredCode of conductNoContributing guideNo

Examples that run: 100%
Documented parameters: 94%
Return-value docs: 98%
References docs: 0%

Downloads

9K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #5,742 · ~25/day · ~751/mo

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Repository

GitHub ↗ bdwilliamson/vimp

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1,067Commits

4Contributors

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1,067 commits · Last activity 2026-05-18

Stars over time

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Repository practices

Upstream repositoryBeta

5 development-tooling and community-health practices detected across 3 families in the upstream repository

Checks run against github.com/bdwilliamson/vimp on 2026-08-09.

Continuous integration (2)

GitHub ActionsTravis CI

CRAN release process (2)

cran-comments.mdCRAN-SUBMISSION

Coverage (1)

Codecov

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

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

23 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

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

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none

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Reverse dependencies

3direct

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lvimp flevr tidyhte

Code & Tests

Datasets

People & History

People (5)

Maintainer (1)

Brian D. Williamson

Author, Maintainer

Authors (1)

Brian D. Williamson

Author, Maintainer

Contributors (2)

Jean Feng

Contributor · added in 2.1.6

Charlie Wolock

Contributor · added in 2.3.3

Other (2)

Marco Carone

Thesis advisor

Noah Simon

Thesis advisor

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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
Installed size: not tracked yet
With dependencies: not tracked yet

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Format

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 v2026-08-15. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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