R Observatory: Metrics for xplaineff version 0.1.1

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

xplaineff

0.1.1Package record

Decomposing Global Feature Effects Based on Feature Interactions

0packages depend

546downloads / year

88.5%test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Zizheng ZhangCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Issues ↗

Implements the GADGET (Generalized Additive Decomposition of Global EffecTs) algorithm for interpretable machine learning. The package recursively partitions the feature space to minimize heterogeneity of feature effects (e.g., Accumulated Local Effects or Partial Dependence), producing a tree of regions where effects are more stable. It supports both ALE and PD strategies, works with 'mlr3' learners and provides visualization of the interaction tree and regional effect plots. The method is described in Herbinger, J., Wright, M. N., Nagler, T., Bischl, B., and Casalicchio, G. (2024), "Decomposing Global Feature Effects Based on Feature Interactions" https://jmlr.org/papers/volume25/23-0699/23-0699.pdf.

Changes in 0.1.1

Added the introductory vignette vignette("xplaineff") with PD and ALE examples on synthetic and bike-sharing data (no issue).
GadgetTree$new() now rejects n_quantiles < 1 up front (no issue).
The PD split search no longer writes NaN replacements back into the caller's effect matrices and copies coerced non-double inputs, and it excludes observations with a missing split-feature value from both children and from the parent totals, matching Node$create_children() (no issue).
The ALE split sweep skips observations without a valid interval index instead of computing an out-of-range position (no issue).
Regional PD plots now place observation points of categorical features on the plotted levels, also in child nodes that lack some levels (no issue).
Roxygen markdown is enabled and GadgetTree is no longer marked as an internal help topic (no issue).
AleStrategy$fit() now reports a clear error when model is missing, and GadgetTree$plot() for ALE trees errors on unknown arguments instead of ignoring them (no issue).
Regional PD plots no longer add an invisible observation layer when show_point = FALSE (no issue).
Removed unused internal helpers and imports; the ALE split sweep skips non-finite local effects instead of letting them poison the running sums (no issue).

From NEWS.md in the release

Install

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

install.packages("xplaineff", 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("mlr-org/xplaineff")

Development version from mlr-org/xplaineff. 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-xplaineff

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-xplaineff

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-xplaineff

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: 5.4 min · r-devel-windows-x86_64

Status changes

OK13 OKNow
OK5 OK2026-09-15

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 0.1.1

READMEYes · 1,356 wordsVignettesYes · 1 · dynamicNEWSYes · 100% structured · mentions 0.1.1Citation fileNoWebsitenot declared in DESCRIPTION

Help pages: 57 (53 internal)includes a package overview page
Examples that run: 100%3 run in a plain check
Exported functions with examples: 100%
Documented parameters: not tracked
Return-value docs: 0%
Help pages citing references: 2%

Vignettes (1)

Getting started with xplaineff

How these are measured

Downloads

546

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #23,704 · ~1/day · ~46/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

33230 days

54690 days

5461 year

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Also on24 r2u1 autocran

How downloads are counted

Repository

mlr-org/xplaineff ↗Organization: mlr-org

4Stars

0Forks

0Open issues

0Open PRs

0Releases

289Commits

5Commit identities

interpretable-machine-learningmachine-learning

289 commits · Last activity 2026-10-19 · Default branch at 0.1.1.9000, ahead of CRAN 0.1.1 (checked 2026-10-22)

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: 5

PRs over time

2026-09-15 · 02026-10-03 · 0

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

13 development-tooling and community-health practices detected across 6 families in the upstream repository

Checks run against github.com/mlr-org/xplaineff on 2026-10-22.

Continuous integration (2)

GitHub ActionsR CMD check workflow

The R CMD check workflow runs on Linux, macOS and Windows, and on R-devel

Governance and community (3)

Contributing guide (inherited from mlr-org)

Funding links: GitHub Sponsors

The repository owner accepts GitHub Sponsors

Coverage (1)

Coverage reporting (Codecov)

CRAN release process (1)

cran-comments.md

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Lint, format, editor (5)

lintrAirEditorConfigVS CodeRStudio project

Git structural (1)

Submodules

How this is detected·Detection ruleset v4 (2026-10-20)

AI coding toolsBeta

This repository shows signs of AI coding tools.

Cursorfirst seen 2026-02-17
Named in .Rbuildignore: .cursor
Commits: at least 7 crediting it in the message
Claude Codefirst seen 2026-03-13
Seen in the repository: .claude
Named in .Rbuildignore: .claude, CLAUDE.md
Named in .gitignore: .claude, CLAUDE.md
Commits: at least 22 crediting it in the message

Shared conventions any agent may read, so they name no particular tool.

Seen in the repository: AGENTS.md

Models named in its commits

Claude Fable 5.118 commits · Sep to Oct 2026
Claude Sonnet 4.64 commits · May 2026

Counts are commits, not lines of code. Commits by a tool's accounts count once across all of its accounts. Commits crediting it are the largest count among its credit lines, a minimum.How this is detected·Detection ruleset v4 (updated 2026-09-27)

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

22 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing xplaineff adds 53 packages (35 with compiled code, 58 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: stringi 11 MB, ggplot2 6.0 MB, data.table 5.7 MB.

Depends (1)

R >= 4.3.0

Imports (10)

checkmate cli data.table ggplot2 ggraph igraph mlr3misc patchwork R6 Rcpp

LinkingTo (2)

Rcpp RcppArmadillo

Suggests (11)

testthat knitr rmarkdown iml mlr3 mlr3learners ranger ISLR2rpartwithr xgboost

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

0direct

0indirect

Nothing depends on this yet.

How these are counted

Code & Tests

People & History

People (4)

Zizheng Zhang

Author, Maintainer since 0.1.0 (2026)

Bernd Bischl

Author · added in 0.1.1

Coco Bögel

Author · added in 0.1.1

Giuseppe Casalicchio

Author · added in 0.1.1

Releases (2)

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R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24

Package metadata

First seen: 2026-09-14
Total releases: 2 / 1 yrs
License: MIT + file LICENSE OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 4.3.0
Download size: 1.3 MB

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("xplaineff")

Format

Zhang, Z., Bischl, B., Bögel, C., & Casalicchio, G. (2026). xplaineff: Decomposing Global Feature Effects Based on Feature Interactions (Version 0.1.1) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.xplaineff

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Format

APA

Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for xplaineff version 0.1.1 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-25. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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