rfvimptest

0.1.4

Sequential Permutation Testing of Random Forest Variable Importance Measures

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Overview

About

Maintained by Roman HornungFirst published 2022-03-294 releasesCRAN page ↗

Sequential permutation testing for statistical significance of predictors in random forests and other prediction methods. The main function of the package is rfvimptest(), which allows to test for the statistical significance of predictors in random forests using different (sequential) permutation test strategies [1]. The advantage of sequential over conventional permutation tests is that they are computationally considerably less intensive, as the sequential procedure is stopped as soon as there is sufficient evidence for either the null or the alternative hypothesis. Reference: [1] Hapfelmeier, A., Hornung, R. & Haller, B. (2023) Efficient permutation testing of variable importance measures by the example of random forests. Computational Statistics & Data Analysis 181:107689, <doi:10.1016/j.csda.2022.107689>.

Install

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

install.packages("rfvimptest")

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

Release

# one-time r2u setup for Ubuntu (noble)

curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/eddelbuettel/r2u/master/inst/scripts/add_cranapt_noble.sh | sudo bash

# then install

sudo apt install r-cran-rfvimptest

Fast Ubuntu binaries via r2u (no compilation). Run the setup once per machine.

bspm (used by r2u) also needs make: sudo apt install make

sudo dnf copr enable iucar/cran

sudo dnf install R-CRAN-rfvimptest

RPMs from the iucar/cran COPR, rebuilt from CRAN.

sudo zypper install R-rfvimptest

RPMs auto-built from CRAN on openSUSE OBS.

Health

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OK2026-03-10
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Dependencies

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3 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Depends (1)

R >= 3.5.0

Imports (3)

party ranger permimp

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Code

1,392Lines of code

3Exported functions

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5 3 exported

Complexity

16.6 avg / 42 max

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People & History

People (2)

Maintainer (1)

Roman Hornung

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Authors (1)

Alexander Hapfelmeier

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Release timeline

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R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
0.1.4Latest
2025-05-09 · current release
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R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11
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R 4.4.0 released · 2024-04-24
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R 4.3.0 released · 2023-04-21
0.1.3
2023-01-25 · diff ↗
0.1.2
2022-06-07 · diff ↗
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R 4.2.0 released · 2022-04-22
0.1.1
2022-03-29

Package metadata

First published: 2022-03-29
Total releases: 4 / 4 yrs
License: GPL-3 OSI
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