R Observatory: Metrics for CRE version 0.2.7

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

CRE

0.2.7Package record

Interpretable Discovery and Inference of Heterogeneous Treatment Effects

0packages depend

3.7Kdownloads / year

62.9%test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Falco Joannes Bargagli StoffiCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Issues ↗

Provides a new method for interpretable heterogeneous treatment effects characterization in terms of decision rules via an extensive exploration of heterogeneity patterns by an ensemble-of-trees approach, enforcing high stability in the discovery. It relies on a two-stage pseudo-outcome regression, and it is supported by theoretical convergence guarantees. Bargagli-Stoffi, F. J., Cadei, R., Lee, K., & Dominici, F. (2023) Causal rule ensemble: Interpretable Discovery and Inference of Heterogeneous Treatment Effects. arXiv preprint doi:10.48550/arXiv.2009.09036.

Install

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

install.packages("CRE", 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("NSAPH-Software/CRE")

Development version from NSAPH-Software/CRE. 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-cre

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-CRE

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-CRE

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: 2.9 min · r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

Status changes

OK13 OK2026-08-26
ERROR12 OK, 1 ERROR2026-07-27
OK14 OK2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 0.2.7

READMEYes · 819 wordsVignettesYes · 3 · dynamicNEWSYes · 100% structured · does not mention 0.2.7Citation fileYes · cites a publication

Cites a JOSS paper

Help pages: 36 (27 internal)includes a package overview page
Examples that run: 75%3 run in a plain check · 1 only when donttest examples are enabled (R CMD check --as-cran)
Exported functions with examples: 100%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 100%
Help pages citing references: 3%

Vignettes (3)

How these are measured

Downloads

3.7K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #7,411 · ~10/day · ~305/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

47430 days

1.2K90 days

3.7K1 year

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Also on99 r2u13 autocran

How downloads are counted

Repository

nsaph-software/cre ↗Organization: NSAPH-SoftwareFork of kwonsang/CRE

16Stars

5Forks

0Open issues

0Open PRs

10Releases

1,061Commits

6Commit identities

License file reads as GPL-3.0 · 1,061 commits · Last activity 2024-10-20 · 0% stars, 30d

Responsiveness

How these are sampled

PRs merged (all time): 91%
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed issues: 54
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed PRs: 1

Stars over time

2025-07-05 · 142026-09-07 · 16

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

9 development-tooling and community-health practices detected across 6 families in the upstream repository

Checks run against github.com/nsaph-software/cre on 2026-10-11.

Continuous integration (2)

GitHub ActionsR CMD check workflow

The R CMD check workflow runs on Linux, macOS and Windows, and on R-devel

Governance and community (1)

Code of conduct

Docs source (2)

pkgdown

GitHub Pages site last deployed 2024-10-20

Coverage (2)

Coverage reporting.covrignore

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CRAN release process (1)

cran-comments.md

Lint, format, editor (1)

RStudio project

How this is detected·Detection ruleset v3 (2026-09-26)

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

22 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing CRE adds 48 packages (25 with compiled code, 51 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: stringi 11 MB, ggplot2 6.0 MB, data.table 5.7 MB.

Depends (1)

R >= 3.5.0

Imports (18)

MASSstatslogger gbm randomForestmethodsxgboost RRF data.table xtable glmnet bartCause stabs stringr SuperLearner magrittr ggplot2 arules

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (7)

grf BART gnm covr knitr rmarkdown testthat

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 (5)

Falco Joannes Bargagli Stoffi

Author, Maintainer since 0.2.7 (2024)

Author

Author

Author

Author

Previously maintained by Naeem Khoshnevis (0.1.0 to 0.2.6).

Releases (10)

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2022-10-18

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R 4.2.0 released · 2022-04-22

Package metadata

First published: 2022-10-18
Total releases: 10 / 4 yrs
License: GPL-3 OSI
Copyright: Harvard University
Minimum R: ≥ 3.5.0
Download size: 167 KB

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Causal Inference

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' entry:

citation("CRE")

The package provides a citation file, so citation() returns the authors' own entry.

It points to 10.21105/joss.05587.

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 CRE version 0.2.7 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-18. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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