R Observatory: Metrics for VLTimeCausality version 0.1.5

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

VLTimeCausality

0.1.5Package record

Variable-Lag Time Series Causality Inference Framework

0packages depend

5.8Kdownloads / year

–test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Chainarong AmornbunchornvejCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Issues ↗

A framework to infer causality on a pair of time series of real numbers based on variable-lag Granger causality and transfer entropy. Typically, Granger causality and transfer entropy have an assumption of a fixed and constant time delay between the cause and effect. However, for a non-stationary time series, this assumption is not true. For example, considering two time series of velocity of person A and person B where B follows A. At some time, B stops tying his shoes, then running to catch up A. The fixed-lag assumption is not true in this case. We propose a framework that allows variable-lags between cause and effect in Granger causality and transfer entropy to allow them to deal with variable-lag non-stationary time series. Please see Chainarong Amornbunchornvej, Elena Zheleva, and Tanya Berger-Wolf (2021) doi:10.1145/3441452 when referring to this package in publications.

Changes in 0.1.5

Update to fix ccf NA issue in time series

From NEWS.md in the release

Install

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

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

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

if (!requireNamespace("pak", quietly = TRUE))
  install.packages("pak", repos = "https://cloud.r-project.org/")
pak::pak("DarkEyes/VLTimeSeriesCausality")

Development version from DarkEyes/VLTimeSeriesCausality. Installs pak first if it is not already available.

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-vltimecausality

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-VLTimeCausality

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-VLTimeCausality

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

CRAN check page ↗

Slowest check: 2.0 min · r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

Status changes

OK13 OK2026-08-05
NOTE12 OK, 1 NOTE2026-08-01
OK14 OK2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 0.1.5

READMEYes · 384 wordsVignettesYes · 1 · dynamicNEWSYes · 100% structured · mentions 0.1.5Citation fileYes · cites a publicationWebsitenot declared in DESCRIPTION

Help pages: 11
Examples that run: 73%8 run in a plain check · 3 hold no code
Exported functions with examples: 100%
Documented parameters: 96%
Return-value docs: 100%
Help pages citing references: 0%

Vignettes (1)

VLTimeCausality_demo HTML

How these are measured

Downloads

5.8K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #5,462 · ~16/day · ~483/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

48730 days

1.5K90 days

5.8K1 year

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Also on67 r2u10 autocran

How downloads are counted

Repository

darkeyes/vltimeseriescausality ↗Account: DarkEyes

72Stars

11Forks

0Open issues

0Open PRs

0Releases

72Commits

1Commit identities

causal-inferencetransfer-entropygranger-causalitytime-series-analysistime-series

License file reads as GPL-3.0 · 72 commits · Last activity 2024-06-04 · -1.4% stars, 30d

Responsiveness

How these are sampled

PRs merged (all time): not measured
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed issues: 2
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed PRs: not measured

Stars over time

2026-07-14 · 722026-09-26 · 72

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

4 development-tooling and community-health practices detected across 4 families in the upstream repository

Checks run against github.com/darkeyes/vltimeseriescausality on 2026-10-21.

Continuous integration (1)

Travis CI (config file)

CRAN release process (1)

cran-comments.md

Lint, format, editor (1)

RStudio project

Git structural (1)

.gitattributes

How this is detected·Detection ruleset v4 (2026-10-20)

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

7 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing VLTimeCausality adds 35 packages (20 with compiled code, 21 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: ggplot2 6.0 MB, Rcpp 1.8 MB, isoband 1.5 MB.

Depends (4)

R >= 3.5.0dtw tseries RTransferEntropy

Imports (1)

ggplot2

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (3)

knitr rmarkdown markdown

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)

Chainarong Amornbunchornvej

Author, Maintainer since 0.1.0 (2019)

Releases (6)

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Package metadata

First published: 2019-12-20
Total releases: 6 / 7 yrs
License: GPL-3 OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 3.5.0
Download size: 177 KB

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' entry:

citation("VLTimeCausality")

The package provides a citation file, so citation() returns the authors' own entry.

It points to 10.1145/3441452.

Cite the R Observatory

For a number measured here: a download total, a coverage figure, an archival date.

Format

APA

Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for VLTimeCausality version 0.1.5 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-24. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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