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audubon vs hstats
A side-by-side editorial comparison of audubon and hstats — release velocity, themes, recent moves, and the top alternatives to consider.
audubon vs hstats: at a glance
What is audubon?
audubon's release feed is almost entirely Renovate bumping the JavaScript toolchain behind its Japanese text splitter.
An R package for Japanese text processing — normalisation, tokenisation via MeCab and SudachiPy, and phrase splitting through budoux. Ten releases since 2022, but the changelogs are dominated by automated dependency updates to a webpack, babel and prettier toolchain, because the budoux component is JavaScript that has to be bundled. Actual R-facing changes appear in perhaps one release in three.
What is hstats?
hstats settled into maintenance after its 1.0 restructuring, with model coverage the only thing still growing.
hstats computes Friedman's H-statistics, partial dependence, ICE curves and permutation importance for any model exposing a prediction function. The releases in view are consolidation: performance work on plain data.frames, ICE facetting for multioutput models, ranger survival support, and a ggplot 4.0 compatibility pass in 2025. The package moved to the ModelOriented organisation in 1.2.0.
audubon vs hstats: editorial side-by-side
audubon
0.0ANALYTICS
audubon's release feed is almost entirely Renovate bumping the JavaScript toolchain behind its Japanese text splitter.
◆ Current state
An R package for Japanese text processing — normalisation, tokenisation via MeCab and SudachiPy, and phrase splitting through budoux. Ten releases since 2022, but the changelogs are dominated by automated dependency updates to a webpack, babel and prettier toolchain, because the budoux component is JavaScript that has to be bundled. Actual R-facing changes appear in perhaps one release in three.
◆ Where it's heading
The package appears feature-stable and in maintenance. The last substantive R-level addition visible here is bind_lr() for bigram LR values back in 0.5.0; everything since has been dependency hygiene, a tokeniser refactor, and platform-specific test fixes. That is a reasonable end state for a wrapper whose value is the binding rather than ongoing invention, but it does mean the release feed carries almost no signal about the package itself — a reader watching this feed would learn more about webpack's version history than about Japanese text processing.
◆ Prediction
Expect the Renovate cadence to continue setting the release rhythm, with R-facing changes arriving only when budoux itself gains capability or a platform breaks.
hstats
0.0ANALYTICS
hstats settled into maintenance after its 1.0 restructuring, with model coverage the only thing still growing.
◆ Current state
hstats computes Friedman's H-statistics, partial dependence, ICE curves and permutation importance for any model exposing a prediction function. The releases in view are consolidation: performance work on plain data.frames, ICE facetting for multioutput models, ranger survival support, and a ggplot 4.0 compatibility pass in 2025. The package moved to the ModelOriented organisation in 1.2.0.
◆ Where it's heading
The structural work — the hstats_matrix object, quantile approximation, revised plotting — landed in 1.0.0 just outside this window, and nothing since has changed the package's shape. What continues is model-coverage plumbing: mlr3 classification modes, ranger survival behind a survival argument, and factor predictions added in 1.1.0 then removed again in 1.2.0. The most recent releases are compatibility-driven, tracking ggplot2 rather than the interaction statistics.
◆ Prediction
Expect the next release to be another dependency-compatibility pass or a new model backend working out of the box, rather than new interaction statistics.
Alternatives to audubon and hstats
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Recent activity from audubon and hstats
Latest ship moves from both products, interleaved chronologically. ⚡ = editorial spark.
- 3mo agoaudubonM1 Mac locale crash worked around in examples
- 7mo agoaudubonaudubon 0.6.2
- 7mo agoaudubonAutomated dependency bumps, including a webpack security update
- 10mo agohstatsggplot 4.0 compatibility and test coverage
- 1y agohstatsranger survival models supported out of the box
- 2y agohstatsMoves to ModelOriented; factor predictions removed
- 2y agoaudubonbudoux bumped to 0.6.2; Renovate configured
- 2y agohstatsICE facets for multioutput models; mlr3 fixes
- 2y agohstatsFaster data.frame paths; NaN H-statistics fixed
- 2y agohstatsFactor predictions and line-style 2D partial dependence
- 3y agoaudubonMeCab and SudachiPy tokenisers refactored
- 3y agoaudubonbind_lr() computes LR values for bigrams
Frequently asked questions
What is the difference between audubon and hstats?
They serve adjacent needs but don't currently overlap on shipped themes. audubon and hstats are shipping at a similar cadence (velocity 0.0 vs 0.0, both within Sparkpulse's "active" band). See the at-a-glance table above for a side-by-side breakdown of velocity, recent sparks, and editorial themes.
Is audubon better than hstats?
Sparkpulse doesn't pick a winner — we score release velocity, not feature parity. audubon and hstats are shipping at a similar cadence (velocity 0.0 vs 0.0, both within Sparkpulse's "active" band). For your specific use case, the alternatives sections above list other Analytics products to evaluate alongside.
What are the best alternatives to audubon?
Top audubon alternatives in Analytics are ranked by recent ship velocity. Browse the "audubon alternatives" section above for the current picks, or visit /alternatives/audubon-r for the full list with editorial commentary on each.
What are the best alternatives to hstats?
Top hstats alternatives in Analytics are ranked by recent ship velocity. Browse the "hstats alternatives" section above for the current picks, or visit /alternatives/hstats for the full list with editorial commentary on each.