Description
A general framework for constructing variable importance plots from various types of machine learning models in R. Aside from some standard model- specific variable importance measures, this package also provides model- agnostic approaches that can be applied to any supervised learning algorithm. These include 1) an efficient permutation-based variable importance measure, 2) variable importance based on Shapley values (Strumbelj and Kononenko, 2014) <doi:10.1007/s10115-013-0679-x>, and 3) the variance-based approach described in Greenwell et al. (2018) <doi:10.48550/arXiv.1805.04755>. A variance-based method for quantifying the relative strength of interaction effects is also included (see the previous reference for details).
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r-devel-linux-x86_64-fedora-gcc
tests
Running ‘tinytest.R’ [6s/17s]
Running the tests in ‘tests/tinytest.R’ failed.
Complete output:
> if (requireNamespace("tinytest", quietly = TRUE)) {
+ home <- length(unclass(packageVersion("vip"))[[1L]]) == 4
+ tinytest::test_package("vip", at_home = home)
+ }
Attaching package: 'vip'
The following object is masked from 'package:utils':
vi
test_get_feature_names.R...... 0 tests
test_get_feature_names.R...... 0 tests
test_get_feature_names.R...... 0 tests
test_get_feature_names.R...... 1 tests OK
test_get_feature_names.R...... 2 tests OK
test_get_feature_names.R...... 3 tests OK
test_get_feature_names.R...... 3 tests OK
test_get_feature_names.R...... 3 tests OK
test_get_feature_names.R...... 3 tests OK
test_get_feature_names.R...... 3 tests OK
test_get_feature_names.R...... 3 tests OK
test_get_feature_names.R...... 4 tests OK
test_get_feature_names.R...... 5 tests O
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test_pkg_randomForest.R....... 0 tests 9ms [Exited at #6: Skip on CRAN]
test_pkg_ranger.R............. 0 tests 9ms [Exited at #6: Skip on CRAN]
test_pkg_rpart.R.............. 0 tests 3ms [Exited at #6: Skip on CRAN]
test_pkg_stats.R.............. 0 tests 9ms [Exited at #6: Skip on CRAN]
test_pkg_tidymodels.R......... 0 tests 16ms [Exited at #5: Skip on CRAN]
test_pkg_xgboost.R............ 0 tests 9ms [Exited at #6: Skip on CRAN]
test_vi_firm.R................ 0 tests
test_vi_firm.R................ 0 tests
test_vi_firm.R................ 0 tests
test_vi_firm.R................ 0 tests
test_vi_firm.R................ 0 tests Error in ranger(survived ~ ., data = titanic, probability = TRUE) :
could not find function "ranger"
Calls: <Anonymous> -> run_test_dir -> lapply -> FUN -> eval -> eval
Execution halted
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r-devel-macos-arm64
tests
Running ‘tinytest.R’ [1s/1s]
Running the tests in ‘tests/tinytest.R’ failed.
Complete output:
> if (requireNamespace("tinytest", quietly = TRUE)) {
+ home <- length(unclass(packageVersion("vip"))[[1L]]) == 4
+ tinytest::test_package("vip", at_home = home)
+ }
Attaching package: 'vip'
The following object is masked from 'package:utils':
vi
test_get_feature_names.R...... 0 tests
test_get_feature_names.R...... 0 tests
test_get_feature_names.R...... 0 tests
test_get_feature_names.R...... 1 tests OK
test_get_feature_names.R...... 2 tests OK
test_get_feature_names.R...... 3 tests OK
test_get_feature_names.R...... 3 tests OK
test_get_feature_names.R...... 3 tests OK
test_get_feature_names.R...... 3 tests OK
test_get_feature_names.R...... 3 tests OK
test_get_feature_names.R...... 3 tests OK
test_get_feature_names.R...... 4 tests OK
test_get_feature_names.R...... 5 tests OK
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test_pkg_randomForest.R....... 0 tests 0ms [Exited at #6: Skip on CRAN]
test_pkg_ranger.R............. 0 tests 0ms [Exited at #6: Skip on CRAN]
test_pkg_rpart.R.............. 0 tests 0ms [Exited at #6: Skip on CRAN]
test_pkg_stats.R.............. 0 tests 0ms [Exited at #6: Skip on CRAN]
test_pkg_tidymodels.R......... 0 tests 1ms [Exited at #5: Skip on CRAN]
test_pkg_xgboost.R............ 0 tests 0ms [Exited at #6: Skip on CRAN]
test_vi_firm.R................ 0 tests
test_vi_firm.R................ 0 tests
test_vi_firm.R................ 0 tests
test_vi_firm.R................ 0 tests
test_vi_firm.R................ 0 tests Error in ranger(survived ~ ., data = titanic, probability = TRUE) :
could not find function "ranger"
Calls: <Anonymous> -> run_test_dir -> lapply -> FUN -> eval -> eval
Execution halted
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r-devel-linux-x86_64-fedora-gcc
tests
Running ‘tinytest.R’ [6s/11s]
Running the tests in ‘tests/tinytest.R’ failed.
Complete output:
> if (requireNamespace("tinytest", quietly = TRUE)) {
+ home <- length(unclass(packageVersion("vip"))[[1L]]) == 4
+ tinytest::test_package("vip",
...[truncated]...
ests
test_vi_firm.R................ 0 tests Error in ranger(survived ~ ., data = titanic, probability = TRUE) :
could not find function "ranger"
Calls: <Anonymous> -> run_test_dir -> lapply -> FUN -> eval -> eval
Execution halted
OK 14 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE Mar 10, 2026
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