s were sorted and sampled in the trees. In the count
model, for approximately 20-30% of stixels this bug caused features,
most often the predicted occurrence, which is a feature in the count
model, to be randomly excluded from tree building even when we specified
that these features must be included. The bug was fixed by the package
author, but we continued to encounter this issue in ~5% of stixels in
the version of <code>ranger</code> distributed by CRAN, so we have
maintained a branch of the package which