R Observatory: Metrics for causalDisco version 1.2.1

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

causalDisco

1.2.1

Tools for Causal Discovery on Observational Data

0packages depend

12Kdownloads / year

–test coverage

13/13checks pass

Overview

About

Maintained by Bjarke Hautop KristensenFirst published 2022-05-125 releasesCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗

Tools for causal structure learning from observational data, with emphasis on temporally ordered variables. The package implements the Temporal Peter–Clark (TPC) algorithm (Petersen, Osler & Ekstrøm, 2021; doi:10.1093/aje/kwab087), the Temporal Greedy Equivalence Search (TGES) algorithm (Larsen, Ekstrøm & Petersen, 2025; doi:10.48550/arXiv.2502.06232) and Temporal Fast Causal Inference (TFCI). It provides a unified framework for specifying background knowledge, which can be incorporated into the implemented algorithms from the R packages 'bnlearn' (Scutari, 2010; doi:10.18637/jss.v035.i03) and 'pcalg' (Kalish et al., 2012; doi:10.18637/jss.v047.i11), as well as the Java library 'Tetrad' (Scheines et al., 1998; doi:10.1207/s15327906mbr3301_3). The package further includes utilities for visualization, comparison, and evaluation of graph structures, facilitating performance evaluation and methodological studies.

Install

R (CRAN)pak (dev)Ubuntu (r2u)

install.packages("causalDisco", 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("disco-coders/causalDisco")

Development version from disco-coders/causalDisco. 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-causaldisco

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

Health

CRAN checks

13OK

Slowest check: 8.4 min · r-oldrel-macos-x86_64

Code health

Yes

Tests · ratio 0.80

not tracked

Coverage

100%

Documentation · exports

16

Dependencies · direct

Check history

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NOTE2026-07-11
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OK2026-03-10
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Documentation

READMENoVignettesNopkgdown siteNoNEWSYes · 100% structuredCode of conductNoContributing guideNo

Examples that run: 99%
Documented parameters: 98%
Return-value docs: 61%
References docs: 15%

Downloads

12K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #5,349 · ~33/day · ~1K/mo

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Repository

GitHub ↗ disco-coders/causaldisco

24Stars

4Forks

1Open issues

1Open PRs

5Releases

1,210Commits

9Contributors

causal-discoverycausal-inferencer-packagegraphical-modelsstructure-learning

License GPL-2.0 · 1,210 commits · Last activity 2026-08-17 · +4.3% stars, 30d

Stars over time

2025-02-28 · 192026-07-22 · 24

Repository practices

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Continuous integration (1)

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Reproducibility and dev environment (1)

data-raw/

CRAN release process (1)

cran-comments.md

Docs source (1)

README.Rmd

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Dependencies

Declared dependencies

26 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Depends (1)

R >= 4.2.0

Imports (16)

bnlearn caugi checkmate cli digest dplyr lifecyclemethodspcalg purrr R6 rlang S7 tibble tidyr tidyselect

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none

Suggests (11)

knitr mockery quarto RhpcBLASctl rJava rmarkdown spelling testthat withr mice micd

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Reverse dependencies

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Nothing depends on this yet.

Code & Tests

Datasets

People & History

People (5)

Maintainer (1)

Bjarke Hautop Kristensen

Author, Maintainer · added in 0.9.5

Authors (4)

Bjarke Hautop Kristensen

Author, Maintainer · added in 0.9.5

Frederik Fabricius-Bjerre

Author · added in 1.0.1

Anne Helby Petersen

Author

Claus Thorn Ekstrøm

Author · added in 0.9.5

Contributors (1)

Tobias Ellegaard Larsen

Contributor · added in 0.9.5

Package Timeline

5 releases. Pick two to compare their code metrics. R releases are shown for context.

1.2.1Latest
2026-07-20 · current release · diff ↗
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R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
1.1.0
2026-04-13 · diff ↗
1.0.1
2026-02-24 · diff ↗
0.9.5
2026-01-20 · diff ↗
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R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11
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R 4.4.0 released · 2024-04-24
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R 4.3.0 released · 2023-04-21
0.9.1
2022-05-12
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R 4.2.0 released · 2022-04-22

Package metadata

First published: 2022-05-12
Total releases: 5 / 4 yrs
License: GPL-2 OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 4.2.0
Bundled data: 108 KB / 8 files
Download size: 1.0 MB
Installed size: not tracked yet
With dependencies: not tracked yet

Cite

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Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("causalDisco")

Format

Hautop Kristensen, B., Ellegaard Larsen, T., Fabricius-Bjerre, F., Helby Petersen, A., & Thorn Ekstrøm, C. (2026). causalDisco: Tools for Causal Discovery on Observational Data (Version 1.2.1) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.causalDisco

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APA

Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for causalDisco version 1.2.1 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-08-18. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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