R Observatory: Metrics for CIEE version 0.1.1

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

CIEE

0.1.1Package record

Estimating and Testing Direct Effects in Directed Acyclic Graphs using Estimating Equations

0packages depend

3Kdownloads / year

–test coverage

11/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Stefan KonigorskiCRAN page ↗

In many studies across different disciplines, detailed measures of the variables of interest are available. If assumptions can be made regarding the direction of effects between the assessed variables, this has to be considered in the analysis. The functions in this package implement the novel approach CIEE (causal inference using estimating equations; Konigorski et al., 2018, DOI:10.1002/gepi.22107) for estimating and testing the direct effect of an exposure variable on a primary outcome, while adjusting for indirect effects of the exposure on the primary outcome through a secondary intermediate outcome and potential factors influencing the secondary outcome. The underlying directed acyclic graph (DAG) of this considered model is described in the vignette. CIEE can be applied to studies in many different fields, and it is implemented here for the analysis of a continuous primary outcome and a time-to-event primary outcome subject to censoring. CIEE uses estimating equations to obtain estimates of the direct effect and robust sandwich standard error estimates. Then, a large-sample Wald-type test statistic is computed for testing the absence of the direct effect. Additionally, standard multiple regression, regression of residuals, and the structural equation modeling approach are implemented for comparison.

Install

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

install.packages("CIEE", 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-ciee

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-CIEE

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-CIEE

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

2NOTE11OK

Check messages

NOTECRAN incoming feasibilityr-devel-linux-x86_64-debian-clang, r-devel-linux-x86_64-debian-gcc

Maintainer: ‘Stefan Konigorski <stefan.konigorski@gmail.com>’

Package CITATION file contains call(s) to old-style personList() or
as.personList().  Please use c() on person objects instead.
Package CITATION file contains call(s) to old-style citEntry().  Please
use bibentry() instead.

CRAN check page ↗

Slowest check: 1.6 min · r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

Status changes

NOTE11 OK, 2 NOTENow
NOTE10 OK, 2 NOTE2026-04-25
ERROR9 OK, 4 NOTE, 1 ERROR2026-03-30
NOTE9 OK, 5 NOTE2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

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Documentation

In release 0.1.1

READMENoVignettesYes · 1 · dynamicNEWSNoCitation fileYes · cites a publicationWebsitenot declared in DESCRIPTION

Help pages: 11
Examples that run: 100%11 run in a plain check
Exported functions with examples: 100%
Documented parameters: 99%
Return-value docs: 100%
Help pages citing references: 0%

Vignettes (1)

Estimating and Testing Direct Effects in Directed Acyclic Graphs using Estimating Equations PDF

How these are measured

Downloads

3K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #14,062 · ~8/day · ~250/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

27130 days

84890 days

3K1 year

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How downloads are counted

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

3 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing CIEE adds no packages beyond those that come with R.

Depends (0)

none

Imports (2)

statssurvival

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (3)

lavaan knitr rmarkdown

Enhances (0)

none

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Reverse dependencies

0direct

0indirect

Nothing depends on this yet.

How these are counted

Code & Tests

People & History

People (2)

Stefan Konigorski

Author, Maintainer since 0.1.0 (2017)

Yildiz E. Yilmaz

Contributor

Releases (2)

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Package metadata

First published: 2017-11-16
Total releases: 2 / 9 yrs
License: GPL-2 OSI
Download size: 334 KB

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Causal Inference

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("CIEE")

The package provides a citation file that builds its entry when R runs it. Run citation() to see it.

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 CIEE version 0.1.1 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-26. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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