R Observatory: Metrics for MRTAnalysis version 0.4.1

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

MRTAnalysis

0.4.1Package record

Assessing Proximal, Distal, and Mediated Causal Excursion Effects for Micro-Randomized Trials

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3.2Kdownloads / year

60.1%test coverage

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Overview

About

Maintained by Tianchen QianCRAN page ↗

Provides methods to analyze micro-randomized trials (MRTs) with binary treatment options. Supports four types of analyses: (1) proximal causal excursion effects, including weighted and centered least squares (WCLS) for continuous proximal outcomes by Boruvka et al. (2018) doi:10.1080/01621459.2017.1305274 and the estimator for marginal excursion effect (EMEE) for binary proximal outcomes by Qian et al. (2021) doi:10.1093/biomet/asaa070; (2) distal causal excursion effects (DCEE) for continuous distal outcomes using a two-stage estimator by Qian (2025) doi:10.1093/biomtc/ujaf134; (3) mediated causal excursion effects (MCEE) for continuous distal outcomes, estimating natural direct and indirect excursion effects in the presence of time-varying mediators by Qian (2025) doi:10.48550/arXiv.2506.20027; and (4) standardized proximal effect size estimation for continuous proximal outcomes, generalizing the approach in Luers et al. (2019) doi:10.1007/s11121-017-0862-5 to allow adjustment for baseline and time-varying covariates for improved efficiency.

Changes in 0.4.1

Updated the standardized-effect-size vignette author list.

From NEWS.md in the release

Install

R (CRAN)Ubuntu (r2u)Fedora (COPR)

install.packages("MRTAnalysis", repos = "https://cloud.r-project.org/")

Installs the current CRAN release. Prebuilt binaries on Windows and macOS.

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-mrtanalysis

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-MRTAnalysis

RPMs from the iucar/cran COPR, rebuilt from CRAN.

For install.packages() integration in R, also: sudo dnf install R-CoprManager

Health

CRAN checks

5NOTE8OK

Check messages

NOTER code for possible problemsr-devel-linux-x86_64-debian-clang, r-devel-linux-x86_64-debian-gcc, r-devel-linux-x86_64-fedora-clang, r-devel-linux-x86_64-fedora-gcc, r-devel-windows-x86_64

Found calls to structure() using deprecated special names:
  MRTAnalysis/tests/testthat/test-dcee-numeric-golden-crossfit.R (.Names: 4)
  MRTAnalysis/tests/testthat/test-dcee-numeric-golden-lm.R (.Names: 4)
  MRTAnalysis/tests/testthat/test-dcee-numeric-golden-other-learners.R (.Names: 8)
'.Names' should be changed to 'names'.

CRAN check page ↗

Slowest check: 5.4 min · r-oldrel-macos-x86_64

Status changes

NOTE8 OK, 5 NOTE2026-09-08
ERROR8 OK, 4 NOTE, 1 ERROR2026-09-07
NOTE10 OK, 3 NOTE2026-07-16
OK13 OK2026-06-09
ERROR12 OK, 1 ERROR2026-06-08

Show 3 earlier changesHide 3 earlier changes

OK13 OK2026-05-11
WARNING12 OK, 1 WARNING2026-05-10
OK14 OK2026-03-10

Advisories

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Documentation

In release 0.4.1

READMEYes · 343 wordsVignettesYes · 4 · dynamicNEWSYes · 100% structured · mentions 0.4.1Citation fileNoWebsitenot declared in DESCRIPTION

Help pages: 57
Examples that run: 91%20 run in a plain check · 1 never run · 1 hold no code
Exported functions with examples: 100%
Documented parameters: 91%
Return-value docs: 100%
Help pages citing references: 4%

Vignettes (4)

How these are measured

Downloads

3.2K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #15,800 · ~9/day · ~271/mo

Releases R versions

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28030 days

78890 days

3.2K1 year

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Dependencies

Declared dependencies

11 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing MRTAnalysis adds 30 packages (20 with compiled code, 25 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: stringi 11 MB, Rcpp 1.8 MB, RcppEigen 1.7 MB.

Depends (1)

R >= 4.2

Imports (8)

rootSolvestatsgeepack sandwichmgcvrandomForest rangerboot

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (6)

knitr rmarkdown testthat SuperLearner earth dplyr

Enhances (0)

none

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Reverse dependencies

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People & History

People (6)

Tianchen Qian

Author, Maintainer since 0.1.0 (2023)

Zhaoxi Cheng

Author

John Dziak

Author · added in 0.4.0

Xinyi Song

Author · added in 0.4.0

Shaolin Xiang

Author

Audrey Boruvka

Contributor

Releases (8)

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R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
0.4.1Latest
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2026-01-24 · current release · diff ↗
0.4.0
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2026-01-24 · diff ↗ ·
added 1 export
calculate_mrt_effect_size
0.3.1
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2025-11-05 · diff ↗
0.3.0
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2025-09-09 · diff ↗ ·
added 12 exports
mcee, mcee_config_gam, mcee_config_glm, mcee_config_known, mcee_config_lm, mcee_config_maker, mcee_config_ranger, mcee_config_rf, mcee_config_sl, mcee_config_sl_user, mcee_general, mcee_userfit_nuisance
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2025-08-29 · diff ↗ ·
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dcee
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R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11
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R 4.4.0 released · 2024-04-24
0.1.2
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2023-07-01 · diff ↗
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R 4.3.0 released · 2023-04-21
0.1.1
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2023-03-11 · diff ↗
0.1.0
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2023-03-06
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R 4.2.0 released · 2022-04-22

Package metadata

First published: 2023-03-06
Total releases: 8 / 3 yrs
License: GPL-3 OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 4.2
Bundled data: 298 KB / 5 files
Download size: 727 KB

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citation("MRTAnalysis")

Format

Qian, T., Boruvka, A., Cheng, Z., Dziak, J., Song, X., & Xiang, S. (2026). MRTAnalysis: Assessing Proximal, Distal, and Mediated Causal Excursion Effects for Micro-Randomized Trials (Version 0.4.1) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.MRTAnalysis

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APA

Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for MRTAnalysis version 0.4.1 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-25. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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