lares

Lean Analytics and Robust Exploration Sidekick

lares is an R package designed to automate, improve, and accelerate everyday analytics and machine learning tasks. It offers a wide variety of functions grouped in families for:

• Machine Learning: Streamlined model training and evaluation, including friendly AutoML pipelines.
• Data Cleaning & Processing: Functions to quickly prepare your data for modeling or analyzes.
• Exploratory Data Analysis (EDA): Instantly visualize and summarize your data.
• Reporting: Easily generate comprehensive reports to share insights for MMM and ML models.
• Visualization: Out-of-the-box plotting for classification and regression models, timelines, and more.
• API Integrations & Scrapers: Simplify data collection from various sources.
• Time Series & Portfolio Analysis: Specialized utilities for financial and temporal data.
• Credentials & Secrets Management: Securely handle sensitive information in your analytics pipelines.
• NLP & Text Analytics: Tools to analyze and process text data.

Tip: See all available functions and documentation here or type ?lares:: in RStudio to explore interactively.

Installation

# CRAN VERSION
install.packages("lares")

# DEV VERSION (latest updates)
# If you don't have remotes installed yet, run: install.packages('remotes')
remotes::install_github("laresbernardo/lares")
# For a full installation with recommended dependencies:
remotes::install_github("laresbernardo/lares", dependencies = TRUE)

Windows users: You may need to install RTools to build the dev version.

Read about lares in action!

• AutoML Quickstart: Introduction to AutoML using lares
• Model Results Visualization: Classification | Regression
• Marketing Mix Model Selection: Select the right MMM candidate
• Cross-Correlations: Find Insights with Ranked Cross-Correlations
• Secure Credentials: Manage Secrets in R
• Portfolio Analysis: Performance & Reporting
• Fun games: Wordle, Scrabble, Sudoku, Mazes, etc.
• More Examples: Read other posts

Popular Functions

• h2o_automl(), plot_model_results() – Automated machine learning pipeline with optimal model selection and visualizations.
• freqs(), distr(), corr_var(), corr_cross() – Instantly summarize, visualize, and uncover relationships in your data.
• ohse() – Efficient and smart one-hot encoding for categorical variables.
• cache_* – Speed up workflows by caching expensive computations.
• robyn_* – Additional functions to support Robyn inputs and outputs.
• fb_* – Interact with Meta’s Marketing API
• gpt_* – Structured prompts builder and interact with OpenAI’s API
• read_encrypted(), write_encrypted() – Interact with encrypted files to keep secrets safe
• …and many more!

Getting Started & Help

• Browse all functions in the online reference.
• Use ?lares::function_name in RStudio for detailed help on any function.
• Found a bug or have a feature request? Open an issue.
• For questions or suggestions, reach out to laresbernardo.