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broom vs yardstick
A side-by-side editorial comparison of broom and yardstick — release velocity, themes, recent moves, and the top alternatives to consider.
broom vs yardstick: at a glance
What is broom?
broom's release calendar is now set by CRAN checks, not by new tidiers.
broom converts model objects from across R's statistical ecosystem into tidy data frames. Four of its last six releases exist purely to resolve R CMD check warnings and errors on r-devel or to absorb upstream package changes. Maintainership passed to Emil Hvitfeldt at 1.0.11.
What is yardstick?
yardstick made fairness metrics a first-class part of tidymodels evaluation
yardstick supplies the metrics tidymodels evaluates models with. Its recent history is metric expansion into areas the package did not originally cover - survival analysis, model fairness, and in 1.4.0 a batch of regression and classification metrics filling remaining gaps - alongside a long deprecation cycle that finally turned errors on in 1.4.0.
broom vs yardstick: editorial side-by-side
broom
0.0ANALYTICS
broom's release calendar is now set by CRAN checks, not by new tidiers.
◆ Current state
broom converts model objects from across R's statistical ecosystem into tidy data frames. Four of its last six releases exist purely to resolve R CMD check warnings and errors on r-devel or to absorb upstream package changes. Maintainership passed to Emil Hvitfeldt at 1.0.11.
◆ Where it's heading
Carrying hundreds of tidier methods for model classes it does not own, broom's workload is dominated by other projects' breaking changes and CRAN's evolving checks. New tidier coverage has largely migrated to the packages that define the models, leaving broom as a compatibility surface.
◆ Prediction
Expect the cadence to stay reactive, with releases triggered by r-devel check failures and upstream API shifts rather than expanded model coverage.
yardstick
0.0ANALYTICS
yardstick made fairness metrics a first-class part of tidymodels evaluation
◆ Current state
yardstick supplies the metrics tidymodels evaluates models with. Its recent history is metric expansion into areas the package did not originally cover - survival analysis, model fairness, and in 1.4.0 a batch of regression and classification metrics filling remaining gaps - alongside a long deprecation cycle that finally turned errors on in 1.4.0.
◆ Where it's heading
The direction is coverage plus extensibility. Rather than adding fairness metrics one at a time, 1.3.0 shipped new_groupwise_metric() so group-aware metrics can be defined for the problem at hand, which is the more durable contribution. The parallel thread is removing hidden state: the event_first global option, deprecated in 0.0.7, took until 1.4.0 to become an error.
◆ Prediction
Expect the groupwise constructor to attract more fairness definitions than the three shipped, and the developer-facing metric creation helpers deprecated in 1.2.0 to be removed next; core metric coverage now looks close to complete.
Alternatives to broom and yardstick
Other Analytics products tracked by Sparkpulse, ranked by recent ship velocity. Each card links to a full editorial trajectory and lets you pivot into a head-to-head comparison with either broom or yardstick.
tsibble
tsibble shipped one release in five and a half years - the data structure is finished
tune
tune extends tuning past the model itself to postprocessors, and adds a second parallel backend
leaflet
leaflet relicensed to MIT and finished migrating off R's retired spatial stack
ggpubr
ggpubr reached 1.0.0 with p-value formatting presets for specific journals
bigrquery
bigrquery went MIT, then handed its slowest path to the BigQuery Storage API
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Recent activity from broom and yardstick
Latest ship moves from both products, interleaved chronologically. ⚡ = editorial spark.
- 3mo agobroombroom 1.0.13 relocates a test fixture to clear an r-devel warning
- 3mo agobroombroom 1.0.12 tracks renamed summary() output fields
- 4mo agoyardstickAdds Gini, MSE and rate metrics; old deprecations now error
- 8mo agobroombroom 1.0.11 transfers maintainership to Emil Hvitfeldt
- 11mo agobroombroom 1.0.10 clears an r-devel namespacing warning
- 1y agobroombroom 1.0.9 requires R 4.1 and repairs epiR compatibility
- 1y agobroombroom 1.0.8 fixes cluster-robust intervals, drops orcutt tidiers
- 1y agoyardstickAll messages translated to cli
- 2y agoyardstickFixes wrong weights in roc_curve_survival()
- 2y agoyardstickFairness metrics and a groupwise metric constructor ⚡
- 3y agoyardstickBrier score for classification; tidyselect interface throughout
- 3y agoyardstickNew maintainer; clearer metric_set() errors
Frequently asked questions
What is the difference between broom and yardstick?
They serve adjacent needs but don't currently overlap on shipped themes. broom and yardstick 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 broom better than yardstick?
Sparkpulse doesn't pick a winner — we score release velocity, not feature parity. broom and yardstick 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 broom?
Top broom alternatives in Analytics are ranked by recent ship velocity. Browse the "broom alternatives" section above for the current picks, or visit /alternatives/broom for the full list with editorial commentary on each.
What are the best alternatives to yardstick?
Top yardstick alternatives in Analytics are ranked by recent ship velocity. Browse the "yardstick alternatives" section above for the current picks, or visit /alternatives/yardstick for the full list with editorial commentary on each.