ranger

Overview

About

Maintained by Marvin N. WrightFirst published 2015-07-2822 releasesCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗

A fast implementation of Random Forests, particularly suited for high dimensional data. Ensembles of classification, regression, survival and probability prediction trees are supported. Data from genome-wide association studies can be analyzed efficiently. In addition to data frames, datasets of class 'gwaa.data' (R package 'GenABEL') and 'dgCMatrix' (R package 'Matrix') can be directly analyzed.

Install

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

install.packages("ranger", 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("imbs-hl/ranger")

Development version from imbs-hl/ranger. 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-ranger

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-ranger

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-ranger

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

Health

CRAN checks

13OK

Slowest check: 5.4 min · r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

Code health

Yes

Tests · ratio 1.27

83.9%

Coverage · measured lines

100%

Documentation · exports

2

Dependencies · direct

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Documentation

READMENoVignettesNopkgdown siteNoNEWSYes · 33% structuredCode of conductNoContributing guideNo

Examples that run: 100%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 100%
References docs: 40%

Downloads

1M

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #451 · ~2.8K/day · ~84.7K/mo

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Repository

GitHub ↗ imbs-hl/ranger

814Stars

204Forks

85Open issues

21Open PRs

7Releases

1,580Commits

37Contributors

1,580 commits · Last activity 2026-02-01 · +0.4% stars, 30d

Stars over time

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Repository practices

Upstream repositoryBeta

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

Checks run against github.com/imbs-hl/ranger on 2026-07-19.

Continuous integration (1)

GitHub Actions

Automation and maintenance (1)

Dependabot

Governance and community (1)

Funding

Git structural (1)

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Dependencies

Declared dependencies

4 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Depends (1)

R >= 3.1

Imports (2)

RcppMatrix

LinkingTo (2)

Rcpp RcppEigen

Suggests (2)

survivaltestthat

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

263direct

95indirect

and 215 more packages.

Code & Tests

Code Composition

C++ 9,746 (46%)R 7,506 (36%)C 2,647 (13%)Rd 1,093 (5%)

Code characteristics

Object systems

S315

Cyclomatic complexity: 3.0 median / 256 max
Test cases: 409 / 1.27 per code line

Test coverage

Line coverage

84%

Expression

83.8%

Tests / Examples

83.9% / 38% ex

Functions

312 11 exported

Complexity

12.3 avg / 256 max

Call network

312 nodes / 201 edges

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Lowest coverage

312 functions

Function	Cyclo	Coverage
as.data.frame.ranger.prediction	4	0%
convert.pre.xy	4	0%
predictions.ranger	8	0%
print.deforest.ranger	10	0%
save.sample	1	0%
.onAttach	5	15%

People & History

People (3)

Maintainer (1)

Marvin N. Wright

Author, Maintainer

Authors (1)

Marvin N. Wright

Author, Maintainer

Contributors (2)

Philipp Probst

Contributor · added in 0.9.0

Stefan Wager

Contributor · added in 0.9.0

Package Timeline

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Package metadata

First published: 2015-07-28
Total releases: 22 / 11 yrs
License: GPL-3 OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 3.1
Download size: 175 KB
Installed size: not tracked yet
With dependencies: not tracked yet

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