R Observatory: Metrics for PolyTree version 0.0.1

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

PolyTree

0.0.1Package record

Estimate Causal Polytree from Data

0packages depend

1.9Kdownloads / year

–test coverage

11/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Sourav ChatterjeeCRAN 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. 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-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). 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

2NOTE11OK

Check messages

NOTECRAN incoming feasibilityr-devel-linux-x86_64-debian-clang, r-devel-linux-x86_64-debian-gcc

Maintainer: ‘Sourav Chatterjee <souravc@stanford.edu>’

The Description field contains
  Vidyasagar (2022) <arxiv:2209.07028>. The method is fully
Please refer to arXiv e-prints via their arXiv DOI <doi:10.48550/arXiv.YYMM.NNNNN>.

CRAN check page ↗

Slowest check: 55 s · r-devel-windows-x86_64

Status changes

NOTE11 OK, 2 NOTENow
NOTE12 OK, 2 NOTE2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 0.0.1

READMENoVignettesNoNEWSNoCitation fileYes · software entry onlyWebsitenot declared in DESCRIPTION

Help pages: 4
Examples that run: 100%1 run in a plain check
Exported functions with examples: 100%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 100%
Help pages citing references: 25%

How these are measured

Downloads

1.9K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #23,979 · ~5/day · ~159/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

17630 days

53390 days

1.9K1 year

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Also on68 r2u2 autocran

How downloads are counted

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

2 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing PolyTree adds 14 packages (10 with compiled code, 14 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: data.table 5.7 MB, igraph 4.8 MB, vctrs 1.0 MB.

Depends (0)

none

Imports (2)

FOCI igraph

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (0)

none

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

0direct

0indirect

Nothing depends on this yet.

How these are counted

Code & Tests

People & History

People (1)

Sourav Chatterjee

Author, Maintainer since 0.0.1 (2024)

Releases (1)

R
R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
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R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11
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R 4.4.0 released · 2024-04-24
0.0.1Latest
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2024-03-25 · current release
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R 4.3.0 released · 2023-04-21

Package metadata

First published: 2024-03-25
Total releases: 1 / 2 yrs
License: MIT + file LICENSE OSI
Download size: 4.1 KB

Cite

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Run in R for the authors' entry:

citation("PolyTree")

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Format

APA

Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for PolyTree version 0.0.1 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-25. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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