explainer

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Machine Learning Model Explainer

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2.9Kdownloads / year

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Overview

About

Maintained by Ramtin Zargari MarandiFirst published 2023-12-153 releasesCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗

It enables detailed interpretation of complex classification and regression models through Shapley analysis including data-driven characterization of subgroups of individuals. Furthermore, it facilitates multi-measure model evaluation, model fairness, and decision curve analysis. Additionally, it offers enhanced visualizations with interactive elements.

Install

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

install.packages("explainer", 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("PERSIMUNE/explainer")

Development version from PERSIMUNE/explainer. 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-explainer

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

# 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-explainer

RPMs auto-built from CRAN on openSUSE OBS (Tumbleweed).

Health

CRAN checks

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Downloads

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Repository

GitHub ↗ persimune/explainer

21Stars

1Forks

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0Open PRs

3Releases

42Commits

2Contributors

aiexplainabilityexplainable-aimachine-learningstatisticsinterpretabilityshapclassification

42 commits · Last activity 2025-08-17 · 0% stars, 30d

Repository practices

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Dependencies

Declared dependencies

30 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Depends (0)

none

Imports (14)

cvms data.table dplyr egg ggplot2 ggpmisc ggpubr magrittr plotly tibble tidyr writexl gridExtra scales

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (16)

cowplot mlr3 mlr3learners knitr broom iml forcats mlr3viz plotROC psych reshape2 remotes mlbench ranger precrec rmarkdown

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People & History

People (1)

Maintainer (1)

Ramtin Zargari Marandi

Author, Maintainer

Authors (1)

Ramtin Zargari Marandi

Author, Maintainer

Package Timeline

3 releases. R releases are shown for context.

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R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
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R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11
1.0.2Latest
2024-09-30 · current release · diff ↗
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R 4.4.0 released · 2024-04-24
1.0.1
2024-04-18 · diff ↗
1.0.0
2023-12-15
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R 4.3.0 released · 2023-04-21

Package metadata

First published: 2023-12-15
Total releases: 3 / 3 yrs
License: MIT + file LICENSE OSI
Download size: 76 KB
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