R Observatory: Metrics for PolyTree version 0.0.1

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

PolyTree

0.0.1

Estimate Causal Polytree from Data

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1.8Kdownloads / year

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Overview

About

Maintained by Sourav ChatterjeeFirst published 2024-03-251 releasesCRAN page ↗

Given a data matrix with rows representing data vectors and columns representing variables, produces a directed polytree for the underlying causal structure. Based on the algorithm developed in Chatterjee and Vidyasagar (2022) arxiv:2209.07028. The method is fully nonparametric, making no use of linearity assumptions, and especially useful when the number of variables is large.

Install

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

install.packages("PolyTree", 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-polytree

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-PolyTree

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-PolyTree

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

Health

CRAN checks

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Coverage

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Documentation

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Examples that run: 100%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 100%
References docs: 25%

Downloads

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Rank #21,545 · ~5/day · ~150/mo

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Sourav Chatterjee

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Authors (1)

Sourav Chatterjee

Author, Maintainer

Package Timeline

1 release. R releases are shown for context.

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R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
0.0.1Latest
2026-03-10 · current release
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R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11

Package metadata

First published: 2024-03-25
Total releases: 1 / 2 yrs
License: MIT + file LICENSE OSI
Download size: 4.1 KB
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With dependencies: not tracked yet

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citation("PolyTree")

Format

Chatterjee, S. (2024). PolyTree: Estimate Causal Polytree from Data (Version 0.0.1) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.PolyTree

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Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for PolyTree version 0.0.1 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-08-16. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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