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1.5.13

Local Interpretable (Model-Agnostic) Visual Explanations

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3.4Kdownloads / year

96.3%test coverage

11/13checks pass

Overview

About

Maintained by Mateusz StaniakFirst published 2018-04-0310 releasesCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗

Interpretability of complex machine learning models is a growing concern. This package helps to understand key factors that drive the decision made by complicated predictive model (so called black box model). This is achieved through local approximations that are either based on additive regression like model or CART like model that allows for higher interactions. The methodology is based on Tulio Ribeiro, Singh, Guestrin (2016) doi:10.1145/2939672.2939778. More details can be found in Staniak, Biecek (2018) doi:10.32614/RJ-2018-072.

Install

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

install.packages("live", 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("ModelOriented/live")

Development version from ModelOriented/live. 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-live

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-live

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-live

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

Health

CRAN checks

2NOTE11OK

Failing flavors

NOTE r-devel-linux-x86_64-fedora-clang
NOTE r-devel-linux-x86_64-fedora-gcc

Slowest check: 4.7 min · r-devel-linux-x86_64-fedora-clang

Code health

Yes

Tests · ratio 0.30

96.3%

Coverage · measured lines

100%

Documentation · exports

Dependencies · direct

Check history

NOTE2026-03-10
12 OK · 2 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE

Documentation

READMEYes · 102 wordsVignettesYes · dynamicpkgdown siteNoNEWSYes · 100% structuredCode of conductNoContributing guideNo

Examples that run: 0%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 100%
References docs: 6%

Downloads

3.4K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #14,881 · ~9/day · ~283/mo

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Repository

GitHub ↗ modeloriented/live

35Stars

5Forks

1Open issues

0Open PRs

11Releases

336Commits

4Contributors

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336 commits · Last activity 2019-08-21

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Repository practices

Upstream repositoryBeta

4 development-tooling and community-health practices detected across 3 families in the upstream repository

Checks run against github.com/modeloriented/live on 2026-07-19.

Continuous integration (1)

Travis CI

Lint, format, editor (1)

RStudio project

Coverage (2)

Codecov.covrignore

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Dependencies

Declared dependencies

18 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Depends (1)

R >= 3.0.2

Imports (10)

mlr dplyr breakDown data.table forestmodel shinyMASSggplot2 gower e1071

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (9)

knitr rmarkdown testthat glmnet covr DALEX RWeka mda modeltools

Enhances (0)

none

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Reverse dependencies

0direct

0indirect

Nothing depends on this yet.

Code & Tests

Code Composition

R 1,084 (63%)Rd 515 (30%)Vignettes 114 (7%)

Code characteristics

Object systems

S35

Cyclomatic complexity: 2.0 median / 9 max
Test cases: 17 / 0.30 per code line

Test coverage

Line coverage

96%

Expression

96.7%

Tests / Examples

96.3% / 1% ex

Functions

26 9 exported

Complexity

2.5 avg / 9 max

Call network

26 nodes / 19 edges

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Lowest coverage

26 functions

Function	Cyclo	Coverage
live_shiny exp	1	68%
add_predictions exp	2	100%
euclidean_kernel exp	1	100%
fit_explanation exp	9	100%
gaussian_kernel exp	1	100%
identity_kernel exp	1	100%

Datasets

Bundled datasets · 1

Name	Class	Rows × Cols	Also ships in
wine	tbl_df/tbl/data.frame	1,599 × 12	–

People & History

People (2)

Maintainer (1)

Mateusz Staniak

Maintainer, Author

Authors (2)

Mateusz Staniak

Maintainer, Author

Przemysław Biecek

Author

Package Timeline

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2019-12-18
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2019-12-17
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Package metadata

First published: 2018-04-03
Total releases: 10 / 8 yrs
License: MIT + file LICENSE OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 3.0.2
Bundled data: 22 KB / 1 file
Download size: 134 KB
Installed size: not tracked yet
With dependencies: not tracked yet

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