R Observatory: Metrics for R6causal version 0.8.3

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

R6causal

0.8.3Package record

R6 Class for Structural Causal Models

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3.5Kdownloads / year

–test coverage

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Overview

About

Maintained by Juha KarvanenCRAN 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.

Changes in 0.8.3

Changed the parameters of functions counterfactual and fairness. Now the method to simulate counterfactuals must be always specified by the user and condition_type is required if the method is "u_find".

From NEWS.md in the release

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. 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-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). 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

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Slowest check: 2.4 min · r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

Status changes

OK13 OK2026-08-05
NOTE12 OK, 1 NOTE2026-08-01
OK13 OK2026-06-09
ERROR12 OK, 1 ERROR2026-06-08
OK12 OK2026-04-25

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ERROR13 OK, 1 ERROR2026-03-30
OK14 OK2026-03-10

Advisories

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Documentation

In release 0.8.3

READMEYes · 186 wordsVignettesYes · 1 · dynamicNEWSYes · 100% structured · mentions 0.8.3Citation fileNoWebsitenot declared in DESCRIPTION

Help pages: 16 (1 internal)includes a package overview page
Examples that run: 100%12 run in a plain check
Exported functions with examples: 86%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 29%
Help pages citing references: 13%

Vignettes (1)

using_R6causal PDF

How these are measured

Downloads

3.5K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #10,681 · ~10/day · ~293/mo

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38030 days

98090 days

3.5K1 year

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Also on87 r2u3 autocran57 c2d4u

How downloads are counted

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

11 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing R6causal adds 15 packages (9 with compiled code, 17 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: data.table 5.7 MB, igraph 4.8 MB, Rcpp 1.8 MB.

Depends (0)

none

Imports (9)

causaleffect cfid data.table dosearch glue igraph R6statsMASS

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (4)

rmarkdown knitr qgraph sqldf

Enhances (0)

none

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Reverse dependencies

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People & History

People (1)

Juha Karvanen

Author, Maintainer since 0.6.0 (2021)

Releases (7)

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R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
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R 4.4.0 released · 2024-04-24
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2024-03-14 · current release · diff ↗
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2023-12-19 · diff ↗
0.8.1
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2023-11-18 · diff ↗
0.8.0
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2023-06-12 · diff ↗ ·
added 5 exports
LinearGaussianSCM, analytic_linear_gaussian, analytic_linear_gaussian_conditining, credit, fairness
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R 4.2.0 released · 2022-04-22
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R 4.1.0 released · 2021-05-18

Package metadata

First published: 2021-08-06
Total releases: 7 / 5 yrs
License: AGPL-3 OSI
Download size: 296 KB

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citation("R6causal")

Format

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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APA

Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for R6causal version 0.8.3 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-24. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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