R Observatory: Metrics for CausalQueries version 1.4.6

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

CausalQueries

1.4.6Package record

Make, Update, and Query Binary Causal Models

0packages dependsuggested by 2

15.9Kdownloads / year

91.8%test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Till TietzCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Website ↗Issues ↗

Users can declare causal models over binary nodes, update beliefs about causal types given data, and calculate arbitrary queries. Updating is implemented in 'stan'. See Tietz, Medina, Syunyaev and Humphreys (2026) doi:10.18637/jss.v117.i01, Humphreys and Jacobs (2023) doi:10.1017/9781316718636 and Pearl (2009) doi:10.1017/CBO9780511803161.

Changes in 1.4.6

This is a documentation-only release adding the citation for the Journal of

Statistical Software paper (Tietz, Medina, Syunyaev and Humphreys 2026).

From NEWS.md in the release

Install

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

install.packages("CausalQueries", 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("integrated-inferences/CausalQueries")

Development version from integrated-inferences/CausalQueries. 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-causalqueries

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-CausalQueries

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-CausalQueries

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: 11.4 min · r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

Status changes

OK13 OK2026-10-15
WARNING12 OK, 1 WARNING2026-10-01
OK13 OK2026-08-05
NOTE12 OK, 1 NOTE2026-08-01
OK13 OK2026-07-29

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ERROR12 OK, 1 ERROR2026-07-27
OK13 OK2026-07-04
WARNING12 OK, 1 WARNING2026-07-03
OK13 OK2026-06-09
ERROR12 OK, 1 ERROR2026-06-08
OK12 OK2026-04-25
NOTE11 OK, 3 NOTE2026-04-22
ERROR10 OK, 3 NOTE, 1 ERROR2026-04-18
NOTE11 OK, 3 NOTE2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 1.4.6

READMEYes · 667 wordsVignettesYes · 6 · staticNEWSYes · 100% structured · mentions 1.4.6Citation fileYes · cites a publicationWebsiteYes · pkgdown

Cites a JSS article

Help pages: 51 (25 internal)includes a package overview page
Examples that run: 72%21 run in a plain check · 8 only when donttest examples are enabled (R CMD check --as-cran)
Exported functions with examples: 100%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 95%
Help pages citing references: 8%

Vignettes (6)

How these are measured

Downloads

15.9K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #3,026 · ~44/day · ~1.3K/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

1.6K30 days

4.4K90 days

15.9K1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on465 r2u12 autocran106 c2d4u

How downloads are counted

Repository

integrated-inferences/causalqueries ↗Account: integrated-inferences

31Stars

10Forks

11Open issues

1Open PRs

17Releases

1,635Commits

17Commit identities

bayesstandagscausalmixedmethods

1,635 commits · Last activity 2026-09-08 · 0% stars, 30d

Responsiveness

How these are sampled

PRs merged (all time): 95%
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed issues: 23
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed PRs: 0

Stars over time

2025-07-03 · 292026-07-07 · 31

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/integrated-inferences/causalqueries on 2026-10-22.

Continuous integration (3)

GitHub ActionsR CMD check workflowTravis CI (config file)

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

Governance and community (1)

Contributing guide

Docs source (2)

pkgdown

GitHub Pages site last deployed 2026-09-08

pkgdown site last built 2025-10-26, before release 1.4.6 (2026-09-01)

CRAN release process (1)

cran-comments.md

Show all practicesHide 2 practices

Lint, format, editor (1)

RStudio project

Git structural (1)

.gitattributes

How this is detected·Detection ruleset v4 (2026-10-20)

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

25 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing CausalQueries adds 76 packages (43 with compiled code, 75 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: BH 14 MB, stringi 11 MB, ggplot2 6.0 MB.

Depends (2)

R >= 4.2.0methods

Imports (12)

dplyr dirmultstatsrlang (>= 0.2.0)rstan rstantools stringr (>= 1.4.0)knitr ggplot2 lifecycle (>= 1.0.1)ggraph Rcpp

LinkingTo (6)

Rcpp RcppArmadillo RcppEigen rstan StanHeaders BH

Suggests (8)

testthat rmarkdown DeclareDesign fabricatr estimatr bayesplot covr curl

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

0direct

0indirect

Suggested by 2

Suggests, most downloaded first

DeclareDesign rdss

How these are counted

Code & Tests

Datasets

People & History

People (10)

Till Tietz

Author, Maintainer since 0.1.0 (2022) · added in 0.1.0

Author

Author

Author

Author

Contributor

Contributor

Contributor

Contributor · added in 1.4.4

Julio Solis

Contributor

Previously maintained by Lily Medina (0.0.3).

Releases (17)

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1.4.6Latest
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removed 6 exports
data_type_names, expand_wildcard, make_parameters_df, make_prior_distribution, observe_data, simulate_data

added 1 export
inspect
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R 4.4.0 released · 2024-04-24
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removed 19 exports
all_data_types, get_ambiguities_matrix, get_causal_types, get_event_prob, get_nodal_types, get_param_dist, get_parameter_matrix, get_parameter_names, get_parameters, get_parents, get_parmap, get_prior_distribution, get_priors, get_type_prob, get_type_prob_multiple, make_parameter_matrix, make_parmap, set_ambiguities_matrix, set_parmap

added 4 exports
get_all_data_types, get_event_probabilities, grab, plot_model
1.0.2
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removed 1 export
strategy_statements
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unarchivedReturned to CRAN
2023-08-29
0.1.1
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added 1 export
make_parameters_df
archivedRemoved from CRAN
2023-08-28
email to the maintainer is undeliverable
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R 4.3.0 released · 2023-04-21
0.1.0
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2022-06-28 · diff ↗ ·
removed 4 exports
make_confounds_df, reveal_outcomes, set_confounds, set_confounds_df

added 6 exports
draw_causal_type, get_parmap, make_parmap, realise_outcomes, set_parmap, strategy_statements
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R 4.2.0 released · 2022-04-22
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R 4.1.0 released · 2021-05-18
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R 4.0.0 released · 2020-04-24

Package metadata

First published: 2020-06-03
Total releases: 17 / 6 yrs
License: MIT + file LICENSE OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 4.2.0
Bundled data: 2.8 KB / 3 files
Download size: 479 KB

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Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' entry:

citation("CausalQueries")

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

It points to 10.18637/jss.v117.i01.

Cite the R Observatory

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Format

APA

Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for CausalQueries version 1.4.6 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-23. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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