R Observatory: Metrics for CERFIT version 0.2.0

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

CERFIT

0.2.0Package record

Causal Effect Random Forest of Interaction Trees

0packages depend

2.9Kdownloads / year

–test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Justin ThorpCRAN page ↗

Fits a Causal Effect Random Forest of Interaction Trees (CERFIT) which is a modification of the Random Forest algorithm where each split is chosen to maximize subgroup treatment heterogeneity. Doing this allows it to estimate the individualized treatment effect for each observation in either randomized controlled trial (RCT) or observational data. For more information see L. Li, R. A. Levine, and J. Fan (2022) doi:10.1002/sta4.457.

Install

R (CRAN)Ubuntu (r2u)Fedora (COPR)openSUSE (OBS)

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

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

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-cerfit

Fast Ubuntu binaries via r2u (no compilation). The cranapt setup runs once and is skipped when it is already enabled. We list this channel from recorded r2u download activity rather than from a live index of the repository, so treat it as last known rather than guaranteed.

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

# enable the iucar/cran COPR if it is not already present, then install
ls /etc/yum.repos.d/*iucar*cran*.repo >/dev/null 2>&1 \
  || sudo dnf copr enable -y iucar/cran
sudo dnf install -y R-CRAN-CERFIT

RPMs from the iucar/cran COPR, rebuilt from CRAN.

For install.packages() integration in R, also: sudo dnf install R-CoprManager

# add the autoCRAN OBS repo (Tumbleweed) if it is missing, then install
zypper -q lr | grep -qi autoCRAN \
  || sudo zypper addrepo https://download.opensuse.org/repositories/devel:/languages:/R:/autoCRAN/openSUSE_Tumbleweed/devel:languages:R:autoCRAN.repo
sudo zypper install -y R-CERFIT

RPMs auto-built from CRAN on openSUSE OBS (Tumbleweed). We list this channel from recorded autoCRAN download activity rather than from a live index of the repository, so treat it as last known rather than guaranteed.

Health

CRAN checks

13OK

CRAN check page ↗

Slowest check: 3.5 min · r-devel-windows-x86_64

Status changes

OK13 OK2026-08-05
NOTE12 OK, 1 NOTE2026-08-01
OK14 OK2026-04-22
ERROR13 OK, 1 ERROR2026-04-18
OK14 OK2026-04-10

Show 2 earlier changesHide 2 earlier changes

ERROR13 OK, 1 ERROR2026-04-09
OK14 OK2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 0.2.0

READMEYes · 157 wordsVignettesNoNEWSNoCitation fileNoWebsitenot declared in DESCRIPTION

Help pages: 5
Examples that run: 100%3 run in a plain check
Exported functions with examples: 100%
Documented parameters: 98%
Return-value docs: 100%
Help pages citing references: 20%

How these are measured

Downloads

2.9K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #15,688 · ~8/day · ~238/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

30330 days

78090 days

2.9K1 year

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Also on392 r2u7 autocran

How downloads are counted

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

8 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing CERFIT adds 54 packages (29 with compiled code, 48 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: ggplot2 6.0 MB, data.table 5.7 MB, glmnet 2.7 MB.

Depends (1)

R >= 2.10

Imports (8)

partykit CBPS randomForest twang Rcppstatsglmnetsurvival

LinkingTo (2)

Rcpp RcppArmadillo

Suggests (0)

none

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

0direct

0indirect

Nothing depends on this yet.

How these are counted

Code & Tests

Datasets

People & History

People (4)

Justin Thorp

Author, Maintainer since 0.1.0 (2022)

Juanjuan Fan

Author

Luo Li

Author

Joshua Moffat

Author · added in 0.2.0

Releases (3)

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0.2.0Latest
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2026-05-07 · current release · diff ↗
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R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
0.1.1
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2025-09-26 · diff ↗
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R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11
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R 4.4.0 released · 2024-04-24
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R 4.3.0 released · 2023-04-21
0.1.0
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2022-06-01
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R 4.2.0 released · 2022-04-22

Package metadata

First published: 2022-06-01
Total releases: 3 / 4 yrs
License: GPL (>= 2) OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 2.10
Bundled data: 6.4 KB / 2 files
Download size: 53 KB

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("CERFIT")

Format

Thorp, J., Fan, J., Li, L., & Moffat, J. (2026). CERFIT: Causal Effect Random Forest of Interaction Trees (Version 0.2.0) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.CERFIT

This package has no citation file, so citation() returns this entry built from DESCRIPTION.

Cite the R Observatory

For a number measured here: a download total, a coverage figure, an archival date.

Format

APA

Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for CERFIT version 0.2.0 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-21. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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