lime

0.5.4

Local Interpretable Model-Agnostic Explanations

5packages depend

294Kdownloads / year

36.7%test coverage

12/13checks pass

Overview

About

Maintained by Emil HvitfeldtFirst published 2017-09-159 releasesCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗

When building complex models, it is often difficult to explain why the model should be trusted. While global measures such as accuracy are useful, they cannot be used for explaining why a model made a specific prediction. 'lime' (a port of the 'lime' 'Python' package) is a method for explaining the outcome of black box models by fitting a local model around the point in question an perturbations of this point. The approach is described in more detail in the article by Ribeiro et al. (2016) doi:10.48550/arXiv.1602.04938.

Install

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

install.packages("lime", 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("tidymodels/lime")

Development version from tidymodels/lime. 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-lime

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-lime

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-lime

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

Health

CRAN checks

1NOTE12OK

Failing flavors

NOTE r-devel-linux-x86_64-debian-gcc

Slowest check: 5.7 min · r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

Code health

Yes

Tests · ratio 0.10

36.7%

Coverage · measured lines

100%

Documentation · exports

Dependencies · direct

Check history

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ERROR2026-04-18
13 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 1 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
OK2026-03-10
14 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE

Documentation

READMEYes · 422 wordsVignettesYes · dynamicpkgdown siteNoNEWSYes · 100% structuredCode of conductNoContributing guideNo

Examples that run: 80%
Documented parameters: 93%
Return-value docs: 93%
References docs: 6%

Downloads

294K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #2,096 · ~805/day · ~24.5K/mo

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Repository

GitHub ↗ tidymodels/lime

493Stars

111Forks

42Open issues

4Open PRs

6Releases

234Commits

16Contributors

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234 commits · Last activity 2025-12-11 · +0.2% stars, 30d

Stars over time

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Repository practices

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CRAN release process (1)

cran-comments.md

Docs source (1)

README.Rmd

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Dependencies

Declared dependencies

26 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Depends (1)

R >= 4.1

Imports (14)

assertthat ggplot2 glmnet glue gowergrDeviceslifecycleMatrixmethodsRcpp rlangstatsstringitools

LinkingTo (2)

Rcpp RcppEigen

Suggests (16)

covr h2o htmlwidgets keras knitr magickMASSmlr ranger rmarkdown sessioninfo shiny shinythemes testthat text2vec xgboost

Enhances (0)

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Reverse dependencies

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Code & Tests

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People & History

People (3)

Maintainer (1)

Emil Hvitfeldt

Author, Maintainer · added in 0.5.3

Authors (3)

Emil Hvitfeldt

Author, Maintainer · added in 0.5.3

Michaël Benesty

Author

Thomas Lin Pedersen

Author

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Package metadata

First published: 2017-09-15
Total releases: 9 / 9 yrs
License: MIT + file LICENSE OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 4.1
Bundled data: 98 KB / 3 files
Download size: 1.4 MB
Installed size: not tracked yet
With dependencies: not tracked yet

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