R Observatory: Metrics for R6causal version 0.8.3

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

R6causal

0.8.3

R6 Class for Structural Causal Models

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Overview

About

Maintained by Juha KarvanenFirst published 2021-08-067 releasesCRAN page ↗

The implemented R6 class 'SCM' aims to simplify working with structural causal models. The missing data mechanism can be defined as a part of the structural model. The class contains methods for 1) defining a structural causal model via functions, text or conditional probability tables, 2) printing basic information on the model, 3) plotting the graph for the model using packages 'igraph' or 'qgraph', 4) simulating data from the model, 5) applying an intervention, 6) checking the identifiability of a query using the R packages 'causaleffect' and 'dosearch', 7) defining the missing data mechanism, 8) simulating incomplete data from the model according to the specified missing data mechanism and 9) checking the identifiability in a missing data problem using the R package 'dosearch'. In addition, there are functions for running experiments and doing counterfactual inference using simulation.

Install

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

install.packages("R6causal", 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-r6causal

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-R6causal

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-R6causal

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

Health

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Slowest check: 2.5 min · r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

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Documentation

READMEYes · 186 wordsVignettesYes · dynamicpkgdown siteNoNEWSYes · 100% structuredCode of conductNoContributing guideNo

Examples that run: 100%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 29%
References docs: 13%

Downloads

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Dependencies

Declared dependencies

11 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Depends (0)

none

Imports (9)

causaleffect cfid data.table dosearch glue igraph R6statsMASS

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none

Suggests (4)

rmarkdown knitr qgraph sqldf

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People & History

People (1)

Maintainer (1)

Juha Karvanen

Author, Maintainer

Authors (1)

Juha Karvanen

Author, Maintainer

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Package metadata

First published: 2021-08-06
Total releases: 7 / 5 yrs
License: AGPL-3 OSI
Download size: 296 KB
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Karvanen, J. (2024). R6causal: R6 Class for Structural Causal Models (Version 0.8.3) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.R6causal

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Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for R6causal version 0.8.3 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-08-18. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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