Package: ale
Title: Interpretable Machine Learning and Statistical Inference with
        Accumulated Local Effects (ALE)
Version: 0.5.3.20261008
Authors@R: c(
    person("Chitu", "Okoli", , "Chitu.Okoli@skema.edu", role = c("aut", "cre"),
           comment = c(ORCID = "0000-0001-5574-7572"))
	)
Description: Accumulated Local Effects (ALE) were initially developed
        as a model-agnostic approach for global explanations of the
        results of black-box machine learning algorithms. ALE has a key
        advantage over other approaches like partial dependency plots
        (PDP) and SHapley Additive exPlanations (SHAP): its values
        represent a clean functional decomposition of the model. As
        such, ALE values are not affected by the presence or absence of
        interactions among variables in a mode. Moreover, its
        computation is relatively rapid. This package reimplements the
        algorithms for calculating ALE data and develops highly
        interpretable visualizations for plotting these ALE values. It
        also extends the original ALE concept to add bootstrap-based
        confidence intervals and ALE-based statistics that can be used
        for statistical inference. For more details, see Okoli, Chitu.
        2023. “Statistical Inference Using Machine Learning and
        Classical Techniques Based on Accumulated Local Effects (ALE).”
        arXiv. <doi:10.48550/arXiv.2310.09877>.
License: MIT + file LICENSE
Language: en-ca
Encoding: UTF-8
Roxygen: list(markdown = TRUE)
Suggests: agridat, cluster, future, gbm, kableExtra, knitr, mgcv, nnet,
        parallelly, pkgload, quarto, ranger, readr, rmarkdown, rsample,
        testthat (>= 3.0.0), tictoc, yaImpute
VignetteBuilder: knitr, quarto
Imports: broom, cli, dplyr, furrr, ggplot2, insight, methods,
        patchwork, progressr, purrr, rlang, S7, staccuracy, stats,
        stringr, tidyr, univariateML, utils
Depends: R (>= 4.2.0)
URL: https://github.com/tripartio/ale, https://tripartio.github.io/ale/
BugReports: https://github.com/tripartio/ale/issues
Config/testthat/edition: 3
Config/testthat/parallel: true
Config/testthat/start-first: ALE-categorical, ModelBoot, ALEpDist,
        ALE-numerical, ALE-binary, ALEPlot-gold-standard
LazyData: true
Config/roxygen2/version: 8.1.0
Config/pak/sysreqs: cmake libicu-dev
Repository: https://tripartio.r-universe.dev
Date/Publication: 2026-10-08 09:35:27 UTC
RemoteUrl: https://github.com/tripartio/ale
RemoteRef: HEAD
RemoteSha: 3c11ce7f881a4c4f3e0acc784d29f2a8f2a3d7c6
NeedsCompilation: no
Packaged: 2026-10-08 16:59:39 UTC; root
Author: Chitu Okoli [aut, cre] (ORCID: <https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5574-7572>)
Maintainer: Chitu Okoli <Chitu.Okoli@skema.edu>