literanger

0.2.0

Fast Serializable Random Forests Based on 'ranger'

1packages depend

79Kdownloads / year

87.8%test coverage

11/13checks pass

Overview

About

Maintained by Stephen WadeFirst published 2023-06-265 releasesCRAN page ↗GitLab ↗

An updated implementation of R package 'ranger' by Wright et al, (2017) doi:10.18637/jss.v077.i01 for training and predicting from random forests, particularly suited to high-dimensional data, and for embedding in 'Multiple Imputation by Chained Equations' (MICE) by van Buuren (2007) doi:10.1177/0962280206074463. Ensembles of classification and regression trees are currently supported. Sparse data of class 'dgCMatrix' (R package 'Matrix') can be directly analyzed. Conventional bagged predictions are available alongside an efficient prediction for MICE via the algorithm proposed by Doove et al (2014) doi:10.1016/j.csda.2013.10.025. Trained forests can be written to and read from storage. Survival and probability forests are not supported in the update, nor is data of class 'gwaa.data' (R package 'GenABEL'); use the original 'ranger' package for these analyses.

Install

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

install.packages("literanger", 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("stephematician/literanger")

Development version from stephematician/literanger. 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-literanger

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-literanger

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-literanger

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

Health

CRAN checks

2WARNING11OK

Failing flavors

WARNING r-devel-windows-x86_64
WARNING r-release-windows-x86_64

Slowest check: 2.9 min · r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

Code health

Yes

Tests · ratio 2.73

87.8%

Coverage · measured lines

100%

Documentation · exports

Dependencies · direct

Check history

WARNING2026-03-10
11 OK · 2 NOTE · 1 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE

Documentation

READMEYes · 419 wordsVignettesNopkgdown siteNoNEWSYes · 100% structuredCode of conductNoContributing guideNo

Examples that run: 100%
Documented parameters: 98%
Return-value docs: 67%
References docs: 50%

Downloads

79K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #1,738 · ~216/day · ~6.6K/mo

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Repository

GitLab ↗ stephematician/literanger

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Dependencies

Declared dependencies

4 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Depends (1)

R >= 3.6.0

Imports (1)

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LinkingTo (2)

cpp11 Rcereal

Suggests (3)

Matrixtestthat tibble

Enhances (0)

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Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

1direct

0indirect

mice

Code & Tests

People & History

People (2)

Maintainer (1)

Stephen Wade

Author, Maintainer

Authors (1)

Stephen Wade

Author, Maintainer

Contributors (1)

Marvin N Wright

Contributor

Package Timeline

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R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
0.2.0Latest
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R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11
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2024-09-22 · diff ↗
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2024-09-22
archivedRemoved from CRAN
2024-09-19
issues were not corrected in time
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2024-09-04 · diff ↗
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R 4.4.0 released · 2024-04-24
0.0.2
2023-07-13 · diff ↗
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2023-07-13
archivedRemoved from CRAN
2023-07-10
issues were not corrected in time
0.0.1
2023-06-26
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R 4.3.0 released · 2023-04-21

Package metadata

First published: 2023-06-26
Total releases: 5 / 3 yrs
License: GPL-3 OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 3.6.0
Download size: 113 KB
Installed size: not tracked yet
With dependencies: not tracked yet

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