R Observatory: Metrics for DAGassist version 0.3.0

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

DAGassist needs insight (through dotwhisker → marginaleffects), which CRAN will archive unless its check problems are fixed by Nov 14.

DAGassist

0.3.0Package record

Test Robustness with Directed Acyclic Graphs

0packages depend

2.8Kdownloads / year

55.6%test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Graham GoffCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Website ↗Issues ↗

Provides robustness checks to align estimands with the identification that they require. Given a 'dagitty' object and a model specification, 'DAGassist' classifies variables by causal roles, recovers a target estimand, and generates a report comparing the original model with DAG-derived adjustment sets. Exports publication-grade reports in 'LaTeX', 'Word', 'Excel', 'dotwhisker', or plain text/'markdown'. 'DAGassist' is built on 'dagitty', an 'R' package that uses the 'DAGitty' web tool (https://dagitty.net/) for creating and analyzing DAGs. Methods draw on Pearl (2009) doi:10.1017/CBO9780511803161 and Textor et al. (2016) doi:10.1093/ije/dyw341.

Changes in 0.3.0

Highlights

PDAG robustness features: pdag and uncertain_edges arguments for DAGassist() and a standalone pdag_robustness() function diagnose how adjustment sets and covariate roles change when introducing uncertain edges.
Added automated balance diagnostics: the console report now flags variables whose |SMD| > 0.1 between the Original and DAG-derived models, addressing missingness-induced apples-to-oranges model comparisons.
Additional robustness feature: add_edges_robustness to evaluate robustness to hypothesized missing edges.
Extended support for balance and weight diagnostics under non-console export formats.
Changed estimand terminology for methodological accuracy (SATE -> total effect; SACDE -> direct effect), as DAGassist cannot recover a true SATE or SACDE from continuous treatments.
Bug fixes

Breaking changes

Changed valid estimand parameter values ("SATE" -> "total"; "SACDE" -> "direct").
Phased out support for "ATT" estimand due to estimand variability across binary and continuous treatments. Future updates may reintroduce the ATT estimand.

This is the CRAN version.

From NEWS.md in the release

Install

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

install.packages("DAGassist", 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("grahamgoff/DAGassist")

Development version from grahamgoff/DAGassist. 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-dagassist

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-DAGassist

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-DAGassist

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: 3.2 min · r-oldrel-macos-x86_64

Status changes

OK13 OK2026-08-05
NOTE12 OK, 1 NOTE2026-08-01
OK13 OK2026-06-09
ERROR12 OK, 1 ERROR2026-06-08
OK13 OK2026-05-11

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WARNING12 OK, 1 WARNING2026-05-10
OK14 OK2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 0.3.0

READMEYes · 167 wordsVignettesYes · 2 · dynamicNEWSYes · 100% structured · mentions 0.3.0Citation fileNoWebsiteYes · pkgdown

The repository also keeps web-only articles.

Help pages: 13 (2 internal)
Examples that run: 100%5 run in a plain check (4 of them under a condition)
Exported functions with examples: 71%
Documented parameters: 88%
Return-value docs: 100%
Help pages citing references: 0%

Vignettes (2)

Get Started HTML
Supported Models HTML

How these are measured

Downloads

2.8K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #14,698 · ~8/day · ~237/mo

Releases R versions

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24430 days

82190 days

2.8K1 year

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How downloads are counted

Repository

grahamgoff/dagassist ↗Account: grahamgoff

4Stars

0Forks

1Open issues

0Open PRs

11Releases

448Commits

1Commit identities

causal-inferencedagpackagerrobustness

License file reads as GPL-3.0 · 448 commits · Last activity 2026-09-27 · +33.3% stars, 30d · Default branch at 0.3.1, ahead of CRAN 0.3.0 (checked 2026-10-22)

Responsiveness

How these are sampled

PRs merged (all time): 93%
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed issues: not measured
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed PRs: 0

Stars over time

2026-02-23 · 12026-10-07 · 4

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

10 development-tooling and community-health practices detected across 5 families in the upstream repository

Checks run against github.com/grahamgoff/dagassist on 2026-10-22.

Continuous integration (2)

GitHub ActionsR CMD check workflow

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

Docs source (4)

README.Rmdpkgdown

GitHub Pages site last deployed 2026-10-06 · The repository has a site deploy workflow

pkgdown site last built 2026-10-06

Reproducibility and dev environment (1)

data-raw/

CRAN release process (2)

cran-comments.mdCRAN-SUBMISSION

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Git structural (1)

.gitattributes

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

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

20 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing DAGassist adds 50 packages (23 with compiled code, 50 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: stringi 11 MB, ggplot2 6.0 MB, data.table 5.7 MB.

Depends (1)

R >= 3.5

Imports (11)

broom cli crayon dagitty magrittrstatstoolsutilswritexl dplyr dotwhisker

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (12)

fixest ggplot2 ggdag knitr modelsummary rmarkdown testthat marginaleffects WeightIt DirectEffects lme4 readxl

Enhances (0)

none

Dependencies facing archival

CRAN will archive these unless their check problems are fixed by the date shown. This package needs each one to install.

insight through dotwhisker → marginaleffectsfix by Nov 14

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Reverse dependencies

0direct

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Nothing depends on this yet.

How these are counted

Code & Tests

People & History

People (2)

Graham Goff

Author, Maintainer since 0.2.4 (2025)

Michael Denly

Author

Releases (4)

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0.3.0Latest
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added 3 exports
add_edges_robustness, balance_models, pdag_robustness
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2026-02-20 · diff ↗
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R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11

Package metadata

First published: 2025-09-21
Total releases: 4 / 1 yrs
License: GPL (>= 2) OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 3.5
Download size: 936 KB

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citation("DAGassist")

Format

Goff, G., & Denly, M. (2026). DAGassist: Test Robustness with Directed Acyclic Graphs (Version 0.3.0) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.DAGassist

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Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for DAGassist version 0.3.0 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-25. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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