R Observatory: Metrics for DirectEffects version 0.3

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

DirectEffects

0.3

Estimating Controlled Direct Effects for Explaining Causal Findings

1packages depend

3.4Kdownloads / year

29.5%test coverage

13/13checks pass

Overview

About

Maintained by Matthew BlackwellFirst published 2018-02-264 releasesCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗

A set of functions to estimate the controlled direct effect of treatment fixing a potential mediator to a specific value. Implements the sequential g-estimation estimator described in Vansteelandt (2009) doi:10.1097/EDE.0b013e3181b6f4c9 and Acharya, Blackwell, and Sen (2016) doi:10.1017/S0003055416000216 and the telescope matching estimator described in Blackwell and Strezhnev (2020) doi:10.1111/rssa.12759.

Install

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

install.packages("DirectEffects", 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("mattblackwell/DirectEffects")

Development version from mattblackwell/DirectEffects. 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-directeffects

Fast Ubuntu binaries via r2u (no compilation). The cranapt setup runs once and is skipped when it is already enabled.

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-DirectEffects

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-DirectEffects

RPMs auto-built from CRAN on openSUSE OBS (Tumbleweed).

Health

CRAN checks

13OK

Slowest check: 1.9 min · r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

Code health

Yes

Tests · ratio 0.04

29.5%

Coverage · measured lines

100%

Documentation · exports

7

Dependencies · direct

Check history

OK2026-08-05
13 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
NOTE2026-08-01
12 OK · 1 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
OK2026-03-10
14 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE

Documentation

READMENoVignettesYes · dynamicpkgdown siteNoNEWSNoCode of conductNoContributing guideNo

Examples that run: 80%
Documented parameters: 99%
Return-value docs: 44%
References docs: 22%

Downloads

3.4K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #11,431 · ~9/day · ~285/mo

Releases R versions

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Repository

GitHub ↗ mattblackwell/directeffects

19Stars

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5Open issues

0Open PRs

0Releases

246Commits

6Contributors

246 commits · Last activity 2025-02-25 · 0% stars, 30d

Stars over time

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Repository practices

Upstream repositoryBeta

3 development-tooling and community-health practices detected across 3 families in the upstream repository

Checks run against github.com/mattblackwell/directeffects on 2026-08-16.

Continuous integration (1)

GitHub Actions

Reproducibility and dev environment (1)

data-raw/

Docs source (1)

README.Rmd

How this is detected·Detection ruleset v1 (2026-07-18)

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

17 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Depends (1)

R >= 3.5.0

Imports (7)

statsFormula glue Matching generics rlang broom

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (12)

knitr rmarkdown dplyr tidyverse ggplot2 reshape2 scales testthatnnetglmnet hdm ranger

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

1direct

0indirect

DAGassist

Code & Tests

Datasets

People & History

People (6)

Maintainer (1)

Matthew Blackwell

Author, Maintainer

Authors (6)

Matthew Blackwell

Author, Maintainer

Avidit Acharya

Author

Jacob Brown

Author · added in 0.2

Shiro Kuriwaki

Author

Maya Sen

Author

Anton Strezhnev

Author · added in 0.3

Package Timeline

4 releases. Pick two to compare their code metrics. R releases are shown for context.

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R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
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R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11
0.3Latest
2024-10-04 · current release · diff ↗
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R 4.4.0 released · 2024-04-24
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R 4.3.0 released · 2023-04-21
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R 4.2.0 released · 2022-04-22
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R 4.1.0 released · 2021-05-18
0.2.1
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R 4.0.0 released · 2020-04-24
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R 3.6.0 released · 2019-04-26
0.2
2019-01-04 · diff ↗
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R 3.5.0 released · 2018-04-23
0.1
2018-02-26
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R 3.4.0 released · 2017-04-21

Package metadata

First published: 2018-02-26
Total releases: 4 / 8 yrs
License: GPL (>= 2) OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 3.5.0
Bundled data: 224 KB / 4 files
Download size: 753 KB
Installed size: not tracked yet
With dependencies: not tracked yet

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Causal Inference

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Format

Blackwell, M., Acharya, A., Brown, J., Kuriwaki, S., Sen, M., & Strezhnev, A. (2024). DirectEffects: Estimating Controlled Direct Effects for Explaining Causal Findings (Version 0.3) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.DirectEffects

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Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for DirectEffects version 0.3 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-08-17. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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