R Observatory: Metrics for DirectEffects version 0.3

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

DirectEffects

0.3Package record

Estimating Controlled Direct Effects for Explaining Causal Findings

0packages dependsuggested by 1

3.8Kdownloads / year

29.5%test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Matthew BlackwellCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Website ↗Issues ↗

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. 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-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). 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: 1.9 min · r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

Status changes

OK13 OK2026-08-05
NOTE12 OK, 1 NOTE2026-08-01
OK14 OK2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 0.3

README· In the repository, left out of the releaseVignettesYes · 1 · dynamicNEWSNoCitation fileNoWebsiteYes · pkgdown

Help pages: 27 (2 internal)
Examples that run: 80%4 run in a plain check · 1 only when donttest examples are enabled (R CMD check --as-cran)
Exported functions with examples: 28%
Documented parameters: 99%
Return-value docs: 44%
Help pages citing references: 22%

Vignettes (1)

Estimating controlled direct effects HTML

How these are measured

Downloads

3.8K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #7,786 · ~10/day · ~317/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

36930 days

1.2K90 days

3.8K1 year

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Also on105 r2u4 autocran65 c2d4u

How downloads are counted

Repository

mattblackwell/directeffects ↗Account: mattblackwell

19Stars

5Forks

5Open issues

0Open PRs

0Releases

246Commits

6Commit identities

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

Responsiveness

How these are sampled

PRs merged (all time): 67%
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed issues: 144
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed PRs: 2

Stars over time

2023-02-24 · 182026-07-07 · 19

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

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

Checks run against github.com/mattblackwell/directeffects on 2026-10-21.

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 2025-02-25 · The repository has a site deploy workflow

pkgdown site last built 2025-02-25

Reproducibility and dev environment (1)

data-raw/

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

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

17 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing DirectEffects adds 24 packages (14 with compiled code, 18 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: stringi 11 MB, vctrs 1.0 MB, dplyr 902 KB.

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

0direct

0indirect

Suggested by 1

Suggests, most downloaded first

DAGassist

How these are counted

Code & Tests

Datasets

People & History

People (6)

Matthew Blackwell

Author, Maintainer since 0.1 (2018)

Avidit Acharya

Author

Jacob Brown

Author · added in 0.2

Shiro Kuriwaki

Author

Maya Sen

Author

Anton Strezhnev

Author · added in 0.3

Releases (4)

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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
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2024-10-04 · current release · diff ↗ ·
added 16 exports
balance.tmatch, balance_table, boots_tm, cde_aipw, cde_did_aipw, cde_ipw, cde_reg_impute, cde_telescope_match, estimate, glance, outreg_model, plotDiag.tmatch, set_treatment, telescope_match, tidy, treat_model
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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
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2021-05-12 · diff ↗
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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
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2019-01-04 · diff ↗ ·
added 2 exports
boots_g, cdesens
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R 3.5.0 released · 2018-04-23
0.1
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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

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Causal Inference

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Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("DirectEffects")

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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Format

APA

Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for DirectEffects version 0.3 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-24. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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