mlbench

2.1-10

Machine Learning Benchmark Problems

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571.7Kdownloads / year

–test coverage

13/13checks pass

Overview

About

Maintained by Kurt HornikFirst published 1999-02-2433 releasesCRAN page ↗

A collection of artificial and real-world machine learning benchmark problems, including, e.g., several data sets from the UCI repository.

Install

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

install.packages("mlbench", repos = "https://cloud.r-project.org/")

Installs the current CRAN release. Prebuilt binaries on Windows and macOS.

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-mlbench

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-mlbench

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

Health

CRAN checks

13OK

Slowest check: 1.5 min · r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

Check history

OK2026-06-09
13 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
ERROR2026-06-08
12 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 1 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
OK2026-03-27
14 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
WARNING2026-03-10
12 OK · 0 NOTE · 2 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE

Documentation

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Downloads

571.7K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #535 · ~1.6K/day · ~47.6K/mo

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Dependencies

Declared dependencies

0 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Depends (1)

R >= 2.10

Imports (0)

none

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (1)

lattice

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

107direct

68indirect

and 59 more packages.

Code & Tests

Datasets

People & History

People (3)

Maintainer (1)

Kurt Hornik

Maintainer · added in 2.1-5

Authors (2)

Evgenia Dimitriadou

Author · added in 2.1-5

Friedrich Leisch

Author · added in 0.5-1

Listed in earlier versions (5)

Written/packaged by Fritz Leisch

no longer listed · 0.4-1 to 0.4-3

Evgenia Dimitriadou Original data sets from various sources.

no longer listed · 0.4-1 to 0.4-3

Written/packaged by Fritz Leisch Original data sets from various sources.

no longer listed · 0.3-2

Evgenia Dimitriadou. Original data sets from various sources.

no longer listed · 0.5-1 to 2.0-0

Evgenia Dimitriadou.

no longer listed · 2.1-0 to 2.1-3.1

Package Timeline

33 releases. R releases are shown for context.

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Package metadata

First published: 1999-02-24
Total releases: 33 / 27 yrs
License: GPL-2 OSI
Download size: 969 KB
Installed size: not tracked yet
With dependencies: not tracked yet

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