audit_report: Render an HTML audit report

In bioLeak: Leakage-Safe Modeling and Auditing for Genomic and Clinical Data

Render an HTML audit report

Description

Creates an HTML report that summarizes a leakage audit for a resampled model. The report is built from a [LeakAudit] (or created from a [LeakFit]) and presents: cross-validated metric summaries, a label-permutation association test of the chosen performance metric (auto-refit when refit data are available; otherwise fixed predictions), batch or study association tests between metadata and predictions, confounder sensitivity plots, calibration checks for binomial tasks, a target leakage scan based on feature-outcome similarity (with multivariate scan enabled by default for supported tasks), and duplicate detection across training and test folds. The output is a self-contained HTML file with tables and plots for these checks plus the audit parameters used.

Usage

audit_report(
  audit,
  output_file = "bioLeak_audit_report.html",
  output_dir = tempdir(),
  quiet = TRUE,
  open = FALSE,
  ...
)

Arguments

audit	A [LeakAudit] object from [audit_leakage()] or a [LeakFit] object from [fit_resample()]. If a [LeakAudit] is supplied, the report uses its stored results verbatim. If a [LeakFit] is supplied, 'audit_report()' first computes a new audit via [audit_leakage(...)]; the fit must contain predictions and split metadata. When multiple learners were fit, pass a 'learner' argument via '...' to select a single model.
output_file	Character scalar. File name for the HTML report. Defaults to '"bioLeak_audit_report.html"'. If a relative name is provided, it is created inside 'output_dir'. Changing this value only changes the file name, not the audit content.
output_dir	Character scalar. Directory path where the report is written. Defaults to [tempdir()]. The directory must exist or be creatable by 'rmarkdown::render()'. Changing this value only changes the output location.
quiet	Logical scalar passed to 'rmarkdown::render()'. Defaults to 'TRUE'. When 'FALSE', knitting output and warnings are printed to the console. This does not change audit results.
open	Logical scalar. Defaults to 'FALSE'. When 'TRUE', opens the generated report in a browser via [utils::browseURL()]. This does not change the report contents.
...	Additional named arguments forwarded to [audit_leakage()] only when 'audit' is a [LeakFit]. These control how the audit is computed and therefore change the report. Typical examples include 'metric' (character), 'B' (integer), 'perm_stratify' (logical), 'batch_cols' (character vector), 'X_ref' (matrix/data.frame), 'sim_method' (character), and 'duplicate_scope' (character). When omitted, [audit_leakage()] defaults are used. Ignored when 'audit' is already a [LeakAudit].

Details

The report does not refit models or reprocess data unless 'perm_refit' triggers refitting ('TRUE' or '"auto"' with a valid 'perm_refit_spec'); it otherwise inspects the predictions and metadata stored in the input. Results are conditional on the provided splits, selected metric, and any feature matrix supplied to [audit_leakage()]. The univariate target leakage scan can miss multivariate proxies, interaction leakage, or features not included in 'X_ref'; the multivariate scan (enabled by default for supported tasks) adds a model-based check but still only uses features in 'X_ref'. A non-significant result does not prove the absence of leakage, especially with small 'B' or incomplete metadata. Rendering requires the 'rmarkdown' package and 'ggplot2' for plots.

Value

Character string containing the absolute file path to the generated HTML report. The report is a self-contained HTML file that can be opened in any web browser. It includes sections for: cross-validated metric summaries, label-permutation test results (gap, p-value), batch/study association tests, confounder sensitivity analysis, calibration diagnostics (for binomial tasks), target leakage scan results, and duplicate detection findings. The path can be used with browseURL to open the report programmatically.

Examples

set.seed(1)
df <- data.frame(
  subject = rep(1:6, each = 2),
  outcome = factor(rep(c(0, 1), 6)),
  x1 = rnorm(12),
  x2 = rnorm(12)
)

splits <- make_split_plan(df, outcome = "outcome",
                      mode = "subject_grouped", group = "subject",
                      v = 3, progress = FALSE)

custom <- list(
  glm = list(
    fit = function(x, y, task, weights, ...) {
      stats::glm(y ~ ., data = data.frame(y = y, x),
                 family = stats::binomial(), weights = weights)
    },
    predict = function(object, newdata, task, ...) {
      as.numeric(stats::predict(object,
                                newdata = as.data.frame(newdata),
                                type = "response"))
    }
  )
)

fit <- fit_resample(df, outcome = "outcome", splits = splits,
                    learner = "glm", custom_learners = custom,
                    metrics = "auc", refit = FALSE, seed = 1)

audit <- audit_leakage(fit, metric = "auc", B = 5, perm_stratify = FALSE)

if (requireNamespace("rmarkdown", quietly = TRUE) &&
    requireNamespace("ggplot2", quietly = TRUE) &&
    isTRUE(rmarkdown::pandoc_available("1.12.3"))) {
  out_file <- audit_report(audit, output_dir = tempdir(), quiet = TRUE)
  out_file
}

bioLeak documentation built on March 6, 2026, 1:06 a.m.