{ "_id": "6ae382f63d0f299392dd1b59", "Package": "irace", "Type": "Package", "Title": "Iterated Racing for Automatic Algorithm Configuration", "Description": "Iterated race is an extension of the Iterated F-race\nmethod for the automatic configuration of optimization\nalgorithms, that is, (offline) tuning their parameters by\nfinding the most appropriate settings given a set of instances\nof an optimization problem. M. López-Ibáñez, J. Dubois-Lacoste,\nL. Pérez Cáceres, T. Stützle, and M. Birattari (2016)\n.", "Version": "4.5.1", "Authors@R": "c(person(\"Manuel\", \"López-Ibáñez\", role = c(\"aut\", \"cre\"),\nemail = \"manuel.lopez-ibanez@manchester.ac.uk\",\ncomment = c(ORCID = \"0000-0001-9974-1295\")),\nperson(\"Jérémie\", \"Dubois-Lacoste\", role = \"aut\"),\nperson(\"Leslie\", \"Pérez Cáceres\", role = \"aut\"),\nperson(\"Thomas\", \"Stützle\", role = \"aut\"),\nperson(\"Mauro\", \"Birattari\", role = \"aut\"),\nperson(\"Eric\", \"Yuan\", role = \"ctb\"),\nperson(\"Prasanna\", \"Balaprakash\", role = \"ctb\"),\nperson(\"Nguyen\", \"Dang\", role = \"ctb\", email = \"nttd@st-andrews.ac.uk\"))", "VignetteBuilder": "knitr", "License": "GPL (>= 2)", "URL": "https://mlopez-ibanez.github.io/irace/,\nhttps://github.com/MLopez-Ibanez/irace", "BugReports": "https://github.com/MLopez-Ibanez/irace/issues", "ByteCompile": "yes", "Encoding": "UTF-8", "SystemRequirements": "GNU make", "Config/testthat/edition": "3", "Config/roxygen2/version": "8.1.1", "NeedsCompilation": "yes", "Packaged": { "Date": "2026-10-29 17:25:33 UTC", "User": "root" }, "Author": "Manuel López-Ibáñez [aut, cre] (ORCID:\n), Jérémie\nDubois-Lacoste [aut], Leslie Pérez Cáceres [aut], Thomas\nStützle [aut], Mauro Birattari [aut], Eric Yuan [ctb], Prasanna\nBalaprakash [ctb], Nguyen Dang [ctb]", "Maintainer": "Manuel López-Ibáñez ", "Config/pak/sysreqs": "make", "Repository": "https://cran.r-universe.dev", "Date/Publication": "2026-10-29 16:18:21 UTC", "RemoteUrl": "https://github.com/cran/irace", "RemoteRef": "HEAD", "RemoteSha": "6f9e56a789a97acd3229086a8986eccdef886ba8", "_user": "cran", "_type": "src", "_file": "irace_4.5.1.tar.gz", "_fileid": "https://r2.ropensci.org/c698c4ff402fa962fca1f5ab5d9a5caa624cac1a4e773235d6392e0d0fcd3307", "_filesize": 2456348, "_sha256": "c698c4ff402fa962fca1f5ab5d9a5caa624cac1a4e773235d6392e0d0fcd3307", "_expires": "2027-02-06T17:31:31.000Z", "_created": "2026-10-29T17:25:33.000Z", "_published": "2026-10-29T17:31:33.845Z", "_upstream": "https://github.com/cran/irace", "_status": "success", "_maintainer": { "name": "Manuel López-Ibáñez", "email": "manuel.lopez-ibanez@manchester.ac.uk", "login": "mlopez-ibanez", "orcid": "0000-0001-9974-1295", "description": "", "uuid": 2620021 }, "_jobs": [ { "job": 123614898576, "time": 131, "config": "linux-devel-arm64", "r": "4.7.0", "check": "OK", "artifact": "12916809753" }, { "job": 123614898428, "time": 189, "config": "linux-devel-x86_64", "r": "4.7.0", "check": "OK", "artifact": "12918577004" }, { "job": 123614898829, "time": 122, "config": "linux-release-arm64", "r": "4.6.1", "check": "OK", "artifact": "12918900783" }, { "job": 123614898352, "time": 130, "config": "linux-release-x86_64", "r": "4.6.1", "check": "OK", "artifact": "12918053224" }, { "job": 123612176974, "time": 281, "config": "source", "r": "4.6.1", "check": "OK", "artifact": "12918815689" }, { "job": 123614898280, "time": 116, "config": "wasm-release", "r": "4.6.0", "check": "OK", "artifact": "12918875766" }, { "job": 123614898684, "time": 303, "config": "windows-devel-arm64", "r": "4.7.0", "check": "OK", "artifact": "12917384303" }, { "job": 123614898562, "time": 132, "config": "windows-devel-x86_64", "r": "4.7.0", "check": "OK", "artifact": "12918906008" }, { "job": 123614898628, "time": 263, "config": "windows-release-arm64", "r": "4.6.1", "check": "OK", "artifact": "12917829436" }, { "job": 123614898622, "time": 149, "config": "windows-release-x86_64", "r": "4.6.1", "check": "OK", "artifact": "12917753361" } ], "_buildurl": "https://github.com/r-universe/cran/actions/runs/40919724150", "_commit": { "id": "6f9e56a789a97acd3229086a8986eccdef886ba8", "author": "Manuel López-Ibáñez ", "committer": "cran-robot ", "message": "version 4.5.1\n", "time": 1793290701 }, "_distro": "resolute", "_host": "GitHub-Actions", "_registered": true, "_dependencies": [ { "package": "R", "version": ">= 4.0.0", "role": "Depends" }, { "package": "R6", "role": "Imports" }, { "package": "codetools", "role": "Imports" }, { "package": "compiler", "role": "Imports" }, { "package": "data.table", "version": ">= 1.15.0", "role": "Imports" }, { "package": "fs", "role": "Imports" }, { "package": "matrixStats", "version": ">= 1.4.1", "role": "Imports" }, { "package": "spacefillr", "role": "Imports" }, { "package": "stats", "role": "Imports" }, { "package": "utils", "role": "Imports" }, { "package": "withr", "role": "Imports" }, { "package": "Rmpi", "version": ">= 0.6.0", "role": "Suggests" }, { "package": "highr", "role": "Suggests" }, { "package": "knitr", "role": "Suggests" }, { "package": "parallel", "role": "Suggests" }, { "package": "testthat", "version": ">= 3.1.8", "role": "Suggests" } ], "_owner": "cran", "_selfowned": false, "_usedby": 1, "_updates": [ { "week": "2026-06", "n": 1 }, { "week": "2026-13", "n": 1 }, { "week": "2026-17", "n": 2 }, { "week": "2026-37", "n": 1 }, { "week": "2026-38", "n": 1 }, { "week": "2026-44", "n": 1 } ], "_tags": [ { "name": "4.4.0", "date": "2026-02-02" }, { "name": "4.4.1", "date": "2026-03-28" }, { "name": "4.4.2", "date": "2026-04-23" }, { "name": "4.4.3", "date": "2026-04-23" }, { "name": "4.4.4", "date": "2026-09-09" }, { "name": "4.5", "date": "2026-09-15" }, { "name": "4.5.1", "date": "2026-10-29" } ], "_stars": 18, "_contributors": [ { "user": "mlopez-ibanez", "count": 23, "uuid": 2620021 } ], "_userbio": { "uuid": 6899542, "type": "organization", "name": "cran", "followers": 634, "description": "Unofficial read-only mirror of all CRAN R packages" }, "_downloads": { "count": 3406, "source": "https://cranlogs.r-pkg.org/downloads/total/last-month/irace" }, "_mentions": 4, "_devurl": "https://github.com/mlopez-ibanez/irace", "_pkgdown": "https://mlopez-ibanez.github.io/irace/", "_searchresults": 382, "_rbuild": "4.6.1", "_assets": [ "extra/citation.cff", "extra/citation.html", "extra/citation.json", "extra/citation.txt", "extra/contents.json", "extra/irace.html", "extra/manual.pdf", "extra/NEWS.html", "extra/NEWS.txt", "extra/readme.html", "extra/readme.md" ], "_homeurl": "https://github.com/mlopez-ibanez/irace", "_realowner": "mlopez-ibanez", "_cranurl": false, "_releases": [ { "version": "1.0", "date": "2012-02-08" }, { "version": "1.01", "date": "2012-03-19" }, { "version": "1.02", "date": "2012-10-12" }, { "version": "1.03", "date": "2013-01-15" }, { "version": "1.04", "date": "2013-06-09" }, { "version": "1.05", "date": "2014-07-09" }, { "version": "1.06", "date": "2014-11-26" }, { "version": "1.07", "date": "2015-09-11" }, { "version": "2.0", "date": "2016-10-07" }, { "version": "2.1", "date": "2016-10-18" }, { "version": "2.2", "date": "2017-03-24" }, { "version": "2.3", "date": "2017-04-26" }, { "version": "2.4", "date": "2017-08-03" }, { "version": "3.0", "date": "2018-07-05" }, { "version": "3.1", "date": "2018-07-12" }, { "version": "3.2", "date": "2019-04-24" }, { "version": "3.3", "date": "2019-04-27" }, { "version": "3.4", "date": "2020-03-30" }, { "version": "3.4.1", "date": "2020-03-31" }, { "version": "3.5", "date": "2022-10-23" }, { "version": "4.0", "date": "2024-11-26" }, { "version": "4.1", "date": "2024-12-17" }, { "version": "4.2.0", "date": "2025-02-12" }, { "version": "4.3", "date": "2025-09-11" }, { "version": "4.4.0", "date": "2026-02-02" }, { "version": "4.4.1", "date": "2026-03-28" }, { "version": "4.4.2", "date": "2026-04-23" }, { "version": "4.4.3", "date": "2026-04-23" }, { "version": "4.4.4", "date": "2026-09-09" }, { "version": "4.5", "date": "2026-09-15" } ], "_exports": [ "ablation", "ablation_cmdline", "buildCommandLine", "check_output_target_runner", "checkIraceScenario", "checkParameters", "checkScenario", "configurations_print", "configurations_print_command", "defaultScenario", "get_instanceID_seed_pairs", "get_random_seed", "getConfigurationById", "getConfigurationByIteration", "getFinalElites", "has_testing_data", "irace", "irace_cmdline", "irace_license", "irace_main", "irace_summarise", "irace_version", "irace.cmdline", "multi_irace", "param_cat", "param_int", "param_ord", "param_real", "parametersNew", "path_rel2abs", "plotAblation", "printParameters", "printScenario", "psRace", "read_ablogfile", "read_logfile", "read_pcs_file", "readConfigurationsFile", "readParameters", "readScenario", "removeConfigurationsMetaData", "restore_random_seed", "scenario_update_paths", "set_random_seed", "target_evaluator_default", "target_runner_default", "testConfigurations", "testing_fromfile", "testing_fromlog" ], "_help": [ { "page": "irace-package", "title": "The irace package: Iterated Racing for Automatic Algorithm Configuration", "topics": [ "irace-package" ] }, { "page": "ablation", "title": "Performs ablation between two configurations (from source to target).", "concept": [ "ablation" ], "topics": [ "ablation" ] }, { "page": "ablation_cmdline", "title": "Launch ablation with command-line options.", "concept": [ "ablation" ], "topics": [ "ablation_cmdline" ] }, { "page": "buildCommandLine", "title": "Generate a command-line representation of a configuration", "topics": [ "buildCommandLine" ] }, { "page": "check_output_target_runner", "title": "Check the output of the target runner and repair it if possible. If the output is incorrect, this function will throw an error.", "topics": [ "check_output_target_runner" ] }, { "page": "checkIraceScenario", "title": "Test that the given irace scenario can be run.", "topics": [ "checkIraceScenario" ] }, { "page": "checkParameters", "title": "checkParameters", "topics": [ "checkParameters" ] }, { "page": "checkScenario", "title": "Check and correct the given scenario", "topics": [ "checkScenario" ] }, { "page": "configurations_print", "title": "Print configurations as a data frame", "topics": [ "configurations_print" ] }, { "page": "configurations_print_command", "title": "Print configurations as command-line strings.", "topics": [ "configurations_print_command" ] }, { "page": "defaultScenario", "title": "Default scenario settings", "topics": [ "defaultScenario" ] }, { "page": "get_instanceID_seed_pairs", "title": "Returns the pairs of instance IDs and seeds used as instances in the race (and optionally the actual instances).", "concept": [ "analysis" ], "topics": [ "get_instanceID_seed_pairs" ] }, { "page": "getConfigurationById", "title": "Returns the configurations selected by ID.", "concept": [ "analysis" ], "topics": [ "getConfigurationById" ] }, { "page": "getConfigurationByIteration", "title": "Returns the configurations by the iteration in which they were executed.", "concept": [ "analysis" ], "topics": [ "getConfigurationByIteration" ] }, { "page": "getFinalElites", "title": "Return the elite configurations of the final iteration.", "concept": [ "analysis" ], "topics": [ "getFinalElites" ] }, { "page": "has_testing_data", "title": "Check if the results object generated by irace has data about the testing phase.", "topics": [ "has_testing_data" ] }, { "page": "irace", "title": "Execute one run of the Iterated Racing algorithm.", "concept": [ "running" ], "topics": [ "irace" ] }, { "page": "irace_cmdline", "title": "Launch 'irace' with command-line options.", "concept": [ "running" ], "topics": [ "irace.cmdline", "irace_cmdline" ] }, { "page": "irace_license", "title": "irace_license", "topics": [ "irace_license" ] }, { "page": "irace_main", "title": "Higher-level interface to launch irace.", "concept": [ "running" ], "topics": [ "irace_main" ] }, { "page": "irace_summarise", "title": "Summarise the results of a run of irace", "concept": [ "analysis" ], "topics": [ "irace_summarise" ] }, { "page": "irace_version", "title": "A character string containing the version of 'irace' including git SHA.", "topics": [ "irace_version" ] }, { "page": "multi_irace", "title": "Execute 'irace()' multiple times with the same or different scenarios and parameter space definitions.", "concept": [ "running" ], "topics": [ "multi_irace" ] }, { "page": "parameters", "title": "Create a parameter space to be tuned.", "topics": [ "parameters", "parametersNew", "param_cat", "param_int", "param_ord", "param_real" ] }, { "page": "path_rel2abs", "title": "Converts a relative path to an absolute path.", "topics": [ "path_rel2abs" ] }, { "page": "plotAblation", "title": "Create plot from an ablation log", "concept": [ "ablation" ], "topics": [ "plotAblation" ] }, { "page": "printParameters", "title": "Print parameter space in the textual format accepted by irace.", "topics": [ "printParameters" ] }, { "page": "printScenario", "title": "Prints the given scenario", "topics": [ "printScenario" ] }, { "page": "psRace", "title": "Post-selection race", "topics": [ "psRace" ] }, { "page": "random_seed", "title": "Get, set and restore the state of the random number generator state.", "topics": [ "get_random_seed", "random_seed", "restore_random_seed", "set_random_seed" ] }, { "page": "read_ablogfile", "title": "Read the log file ('log-ablation.Rdata') produced by 'ablation()'.", "concept": [ "ablation" ], "topics": [ "read_ablogfile" ] }, { "page": "read_logfile", "title": "Read the log file produced by irace ('irace.Rdata').", "concept": [ "analysis" ], "topics": [ "read_logfile" ] }, { "page": "read_pcs_file", "title": "Read parameters in PCS (AClib) format and write them in irace format.", "topics": [ "read_pcs_file" ] }, { "page": "readConfigurationsFile", "title": "Read parameter configurations from a file", "topics": [ "readConfigurationsFile" ] }, { "page": "readParameters", "title": "Reads the parameters to be tuned by 'irace' from a file or from a character string.", "topics": [ "readParameters" ] }, { "page": "readScenario", "title": "Reads from a file the scenario settings to be used by 'irace'.", "topics": [ "readScenario" ] }, { "page": "removeConfigurationsMetaData", "title": "removeConfigurationsMetaData", "topics": [ "removeConfigurationsMetaData" ] }, { "page": "save_irace_logfile", "title": "Save the log generated by 'irace' to a file (by default 'irace.Rdata').", "concept": [ "analysis" ], "topics": [ "save_irace_logfile" ] }, { "page": "scenario_update_paths", "title": "Update filesystem paths of a scenario consistently.", "topics": [ "scenario_update_paths" ] }, { "page": "target_evaluator_default", "title": "target_evaluator_default", "topics": [ "target_evaluator_default" ] }, { "page": "target_runner_default", "title": "Default 'targetRunner' function.", "topics": [ "target_runner_default" ] }, { "page": "testConfigurations", "title": "Execute the given configurations on the testing instances specified in the scenario", "topics": [ "testConfigurations" ] }, { "page": "testing_fromfile", "title": "Test configurations given an explicit table of configurations and a scenario file", "concept": [ "running" ], "topics": [ "testing_fromfile" ] }, { "page": "testing_fromlog", "title": "Test configurations given in the logfile (typically 'irace.Rdata') produced by 'irace'.", "concept": [ "running" ], "topics": [ "testing_fromlog" ] } ], "_readme": "https://github.com/cran/irace/raw/HEAD/README.md", "_rundeps": [ "codetools", "data.table", "fs", "matrixStats", "R6", "Rcpp", "spacefillr", "withr" ], "_vignettes": [ { "source": "irace-package.Rnw", "filename": "irace-package.pdf", "title": "irace package: User Guide", "engine": "knitr::knitr", "headings": [ "General information", "Before starting", "Installation", "Running irace", "Defining a configuration scenario", "Parallelization", "Testing (Validation) of configurations", "Recovering irace runs", "Output and results", "Advanced topics", "List of command-line and scenario options", "FAQ (Frequently Asked Questions)", "Resources and contact information", "Acknowledgements", "Bibliography", "Appendix Installing R", "Appendix targetRunner troubleshooting checklist", "Appendix targetEvaluator troubleshooting checklist", "Appendix Glossary", "Appendix NEWS" ], "created": "2016-10-08 00:33:44", "modified": "2026-09-15 09:50:08", "commits": 18 } ], "_score": 7.925883012408885, "_indexed": false, "_nocasepkg": "irace", "_universes": [ "cran" ], "_indexurl": "https://mlopez-ibanez.r-universe.dev/irace", "_previous": "4.5", "_binaries": [ { "r": "4.7.0", "os": "linux", "version": "4.5.1", "date": "2026-10-29T17:27:32.000Z", "distro": "resolute", "arch": "aarch64", "commit": "6f9e56a789a97acd3229086a8986eccdef886ba8", "fileid": "https://r2.ropensci.org/9c5873a1ab0a581d300c199a6fb2d46072f24dceee8ebf2980cbf6d214bcf649", "status": "success", "check": "OK", "buildurl": "https://github.com/r-universe/cran/actions/runs/40919724150" }, { "r": "4.7.0", "os": "linux", "version": "4.5.1", "date": "2026-10-29T17:28:26.000Z", "distro": "resolute", "arch": "x86_64", "commit": "6f9e56a789a97acd3229086a8986eccdef886ba8", "fileid": "https://r2.ropensci.org/01afba9f1ec62dcb9b3519dcb12cf89034f9e3ecf274cd217732bd1f7514620a", "status": "success", "check": "OK", "buildurl": "https://github.com/r-universe/cran/actions/runs/40919724150" }, { "r": "4.6.1", "os": "linux", "version": "4.5.1", "date": "2026-10-29T17:27:25.000Z", "distro": "resolute", "arch": "aarch64", "commit": "6f9e56a789a97acd3229086a8986eccdef886ba8", "fileid": "https://r2.ropensci.org/5a095671a5bc523f63b33b3c97cec44de5cb528bfc7ae22b1e43c71d4b290784", "status": "success", "check": "OK", "buildurl": "https://github.com/r-universe/cran/actions/runs/40919724150" }, { "r": "4.6.1", "os": "linux", "version": "4.5.1", "date": "2026-10-29T17:27:39.000Z", "distro": "resolute", "arch": "x86_64", "commit": "6f9e56a789a97acd3229086a8986eccdef886ba8", "fileid": "https://r2.ropensci.org/44c4bfaba700e5ecd5ed1486a9f94f46e800b076a3ac189aad8511a1f83d8d3b", "status": "success", "check": "OK", "buildurl": "https://github.com/r-universe/cran/actions/runs/40919724150" }, { "r": "4.6.0", "os": "wasm", "version": "4.5.1", "date": "2026-10-29T17:27:53.000Z", "arch": "emscripten", "commit": "6f9e56a789a97acd3229086a8986eccdef886ba8", "fileid": "https://r2.ropensci.org/faea61766e270325cc613dabe2b2bb76f574cf51ec43514270eba228097c78e1", "status": "success", "buildurl": "https://github.com/r-universe/cran/actions/runs/40919724150" }, { "r": "4.7.0", "os": "win", "version": "4.5.1", "date": "2026-10-29T17:29:53.000Z", "arch": "aarch64", "commit": "6f9e56a789a97acd3229086a8986eccdef886ba8", "fileid": "https://r2.ropensci.org/89238b1e4aa2e1016aa31e47244dbef83e5ea0a8d86da0f1b0f8a1c16ad98b5f", "status": "success", "check": "OK", "buildurl": "https://github.com/r-universe/cran/actions/runs/40919724150" }, { "r": "4.7.0", "os": "win", "version": "4.5.1", "date": "2026-10-29T17:26:55.000Z", "arch": "x86_64", "commit": "6f9e56a789a97acd3229086a8986eccdef886ba8", "fileid": "https://r2.ropensci.org/6ecf7cee4680c6dad27780ae58f8c4a348f6aca26980fe3670b1e009dffa8535", "status": "success", "check": "OK", "buildurl": "https://github.com/r-universe/cran/actions/runs/40919724150" }, { "r": "4.6.1", "os": "win", "version": "4.5.1", "date": "2026-10-29T17:29:10.000Z", "arch": "aarch64", "commit": "6f9e56a789a97acd3229086a8986eccdef886ba8", "fileid": "https://r2.ropensci.org/9029f85cd7db8bd210458a8b80c50efdb8672d7d198f6f8181381666ac87b064", "status": "success", "check": "OK", "buildurl": "https://github.com/r-universe/cran/actions/runs/40919724150" }, { "r": "4.6.1", "os": "win", "version": "4.5.1", "date": "2026-10-29T17:27:00.000Z", "arch": "x86_64", "commit": "6f9e56a789a97acd3229086a8986eccdef886ba8", "fileid": "https://r2.ropensci.org/95d72f141c7b3cc60ff6e2fc2ca9dccc3f2d55f79e4936f12679bd2ab38def6d", "status": "success", "check": "OK", "buildurl": "https://github.com/r-universe/cran/actions/runs/40919724150" } ] }