R Observatory: Metrics for BCDAG version 1.1.4

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

BCDAG

1.1.4

Bayesian Structure and Causal Learning of Gaussian Directed Graphs

0packages depend

3.6Kdownloads / year

–test coverage

13/13checks pass

Overview

About

Maintained by Alessandro MascaroFirst published 2022-03-156 releasesCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗

A collection of functions for structure learning of causal networks and estimation of joint causal effects from observational Gaussian data. Main algorithm consists of a Markov chain Monte Carlo scheme for posterior inference of causal structures, parameters and causal effects between variables. References: F. Castelletti and A. Mascaro (2021) doi:10.1007/s10260-021-00579-1, F. Castelletti and A. Mascaro (2022) doi:10.48550/arXiv.2201.12003, F. Castelletti and A. Mascaro (2026) doi:10.18637/jss.v116.i05.

Install

R (CRAN)pak (dev)Ubuntu (r2u)

install.packages("BCDAG", repos = "https://cloud.r-project.org/")

Installs the current CRAN release. Prebuilt binaries on Windows and macOS.

if (!requireNamespace("pak", quietly = TRUE))
  install.packages("pak", repos = "https://cloud.r-project.org/")
pak::pak("alesmascaro/BCDAG")

Development version from alesmascaro/BCDAG. Installs pak first if it is not already available.

Release

# enable cranapt (r2u) if it is not already set up, then install
grep -rqs r2u.stat.illinois.edu /etc/apt/sources.list /etc/apt/sources.list.d/ \
  || curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/eddelbuettel/r2u/master/inst/scripts/add_cranapt_noble.sh | sudo bash
sudo apt install -y r-cran-bcdag

Fast Ubuntu binaries via r2u (no compilation). The cranapt setup runs once and is skipped when it is already enabled.

bspm (used by r2u) also needs make: sudo apt install make

Health

CRAN checks

13OK

Slowest check: 13.3 min · r-devel-windows-x86_64

Code health

Yes

Tests · ratio 0.10

not tracked

Coverage

100%

Documentation · exports

10

Dependencies · direct

Check history

OK2026-08-05
13 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
NOTE2026-08-01
12 OK · 1 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
OK2026-03-10
14 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE

Documentation

READMEYes · 263 wordsVignettesYes · dynamicpkgdown siteNoNEWSYes · 100% structuredCode of conductNoContributing guideNo

Examples that run: 100%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 100%
References docs: 47%

Downloads

3.6K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #8,110 · ~10/day · ~304/mo

Releases R versions

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29230 days

1.1K90 days

3.6K1 year

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Also on116 r2u

Repository

GitHub ↗ alesmascaro/bcdag

3Stars

1Forks

0Open issues

0Open PRs

1Releases

150Commits

1Contributors

150 commits · Last activity 2026-06-18

Stars over time

2025-01-12 · 32026-07-07 · 3

Repository practices

Upstream repositoryBeta

4 development-tooling and community-health practices detected across 4 families in the upstream repository

Checks run against github.com/alesmascaro/bcdag on 2026-08-23.

Continuous integration (1)

GitHub Actions

CRAN release process (1)

CRAN-SUBMISSION

Docs source (1)

README.Rmd

Lint, format, editor (1)

RStudio project

How this is detected·Detection ruleset v1 (2026-07-18)

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

7 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Depends (1)

R >= 2.10

Imports (10)

graphgraphicsgRbase RgraphvizgrDeviceslatticemethodsmvtnormstatsutils

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (3)

rmarkdown knitr testthat

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

0direct

0indirect

Nothing depends on this yet.

Code & Tests

Datasets

People & History

People (2)

Maintainer (1)

Alessandro Mascaro

Author, Maintainer, Copyright holder

Authors (2)

Alessandro Mascaro

Author, Maintainer, Copyright holder

Federico Castelletti

Author

Copyright holders (1)

Alessandro Mascaro

Author, Maintainer, Copyright holder

Package Timeline

6 releases. Pick two to compare their code metrics. R releases are shown for context.

1.1.4Latest
2026-06-21 · current release · diff ↗
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R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
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R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11
1.1.3
2025-02-28 · diff ↗
1.1.2
2025-01-30 · diff ↗
1.1.1
2024-06-14 · diff ↗
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R 4.4.0 released · 2024-04-24
1.1.0
2024-02-10 · diff ↗
unarchivedReturned to CRAN
2024-02-10
archivedRemoved from CRAN
2023-10-06
check problems were not corrected in time
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R 4.3.0 released · 2023-04-21
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R 4.2.0 released · 2022-04-22
1.0.0
2022-03-15
R
R 4.1.0 released · 2021-05-18

Package metadata

First published: 2022-03-15
Total releases: 6 / 4 yrs
License: MIT + file LICENSE OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 2.10
Bundled data: 9.7 KB / 1 file
Download size: 337 KB
Installed size: not tracked yet
With dependencies: not tracked yet

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("BCDAG")

Format

Mascaro, A., & Castelletti, F. (2026). BCDAG: Bayesian Structure and Causal Learning of Gaussian Directed Graphs (Version 1.1.4) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.BCDAG

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Format

APA

Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for BCDAG version 1.1.4 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-08-24. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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