ggRandomForests: Visually Exploring Random Forests

Graphic elements for exploring Random Forests using the 'randomForest' or 'randomForestSRC' package for survival, regression and classification forests and 'ggplot2' package plotting. Implements visualisations of the methods described in Breiman (2001) <doi:10.1023/A:1010933404324> and Ishwaran, Kogalur, Blackstone, and Lauer (2008) <doi:10.1214/08-AOAS169>.

Version: 3.1.0
Depends: R (≥ 4.4.0)
Imports: randomForestSRC (≥ 3.4.0), randomForest, varPro, igraph, survival, tidyr, dplyr, ggplot2, patchwork, stringr
Suggests: testthat, bookdown, RColorBrewer, MASS, lintr, covr, vdiffr, datasets, rmarkdown, quarto, pkgdown, pkgload, knitr, ggraph, callr
Published: 2026-06-11
DOI: 10.32614/CRAN.package.ggRandomForests
Author: John Ehrlinger [aut, cre]
Maintainer: John Ehrlinger <john.ehrlinger at gmail.com>
BugReports: https://github.com/ehrlinger/ggRandomForests/issues
License: MIT + file LICENSE
URL: https://github.com/ehrlinger/ggRandomForests, https://ehrlinger.github.io/ggRandomForests/
NeedsCompilation: no
Language: en-US
Citation: ggRandomForests citation info
Materials: README, NEWS
CRAN checks: ggRandomForests results [issues need fixing before 2026-06-29]

Documentation:

Reference manual: ggRandomForests.html , ggRandomForests.pdf
Vignettes: Random Forest Regression with ggRandomForests (source, R code)
Random Forest Survival Analysis with ggRandomForests (source, R code)
Vignette's Title (source, R code)
Exploring variable importance with varPro (source, R code)

Downloads:

Package source: ggRandomForests_3.1.0.tar.gz
Windows binaries: r-devel: ggRandomForests_3.1.0.zip, r-release: ggRandomForests_2.7.3.zip, r-oldrel: ggRandomForests_3.1.0.zip
macOS binaries: r-release (arm64): ggRandomForests_3.1.0.tgz, r-oldrel (arm64): ggRandomForests_3.1.0.tgz, r-release (x86_64): ggRandomForests_3.1.0.tgz, r-oldrel (x86_64): ggRandomForests_3.1.0.tgz
Old sources: ggRandomForests archive

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