R Observatory: Metrics for causalOT version 1.0.4

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

causalOT

1.0.4Package record

Optimal Transport Weights for Causal Inference

0packages depend

5.4Kdownloads / year

14.6%test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Eric DunipaceCRAN page ↗

Uses optimal transport distances to find probabilistic matching estimators for causal inference. These methods are described in Dunipace, Eric (2021) doi:10.48550/arXiv.2109.01991. The package will build the weights, estimate treatment effects, and calculate confidence intervals via the methods described in the paper. The package also supports several other methods as described in the help files.

Changes in 1.0.4

Minor improvements and fixes

Fixed test that gave error on some linux builds

From NEWS.md in the release

Install

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

install.packages("causalOT", 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-causalot

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-causalOT

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-causalOT

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: 5.3 min · r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

Status changes

OK13 OK2026-08-05
NOTE12 OK, 1 NOTE2026-08-01
OK13 OK2026-05-02
NOTE11 OK, 3 NOTE2026-04-22
ERROR10 OK, 3 NOTE, 1 ERROR2026-04-18

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NOTE8 OK, 6 NOTE2026-04-10
ERROR7 OK, 6 NOTE, 1 ERROR2026-04-09
NOTE11 OK, 3 NOTE2026-03-18
ERROR5 OK, 2 NOTE, 7 ERROR2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

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Documentation

In release 1.0.4

READMEYes · 202 wordsVignettesYes · 2 · staticNEWSYes · 100% structured · mentions 1.0.4Citation fileYes · software entry onlyWebsitenot declared in DESCRIPTION

Help pages: 41 (13 internal)includes a package overview page
Examples that run: 100%24 run in a plain check
Exported functions with examples: 100%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 100%
Help pages citing references: 0%

Vignettes (2)

How these are measured

Downloads

5.4K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #6,044 · ~15/day · ~454/mo

Releases R versions

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51730 days

1.4K90 days

5.4K1 year

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Dependencies

Declared dependencies

23 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing causalOT adds 59 packages (28 with compiled code, 50 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: BH 14 MB, ggplot2 6.0 MB, glmnet 2.7 MB.

Depends (1)

R >= 4.1.0

Imports (14)

CBPS ggplot2 lbfgsb3c looMatrixmatrixStatsmethodsosqp R6 Rcpp rlang sandwich torchutils

LinkingTo (4)

BH Rcpp RcppEigen torch

Suggests (8)

data.table testthat knitr reticulate rkeops rmarkdown V8 withr

Enhances (0)

none

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Reverse dependencies

0direct

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People & History

People (1)

Eric Dunipace

Author, Maintainer since 0.1 (2022)

Releases (7)

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R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
1.0.4Latest
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2026-03-10 · current release · diff ↗
1.0.3
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2026-02-15 · 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
1.0.2
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2024-02-18 · diff ↗
1.0.1
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2023-11-30 · diff ↗
unarchivedReturned to CRAN
2023-11-28
1.0
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2023-11-28 · diff ↗ ·
removed 7 exports
cost_fun, dist.metrics, mean_bal, ot.methods, sinkhorn, supported.methods, supported.solvers

added 13 exports
CRASH3, Measure, OTProblem, barycentric_projection, cotOptions, dataHolder, df2dataHolder, entBWOptions, mean_balance, ot_distance, sbwOptions, scmOptions, supported_methods
archivedRemoved from CRAN
2023-08-22
requires archived package 'approxOT'
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R 4.3.0 released · 2023-04-21
0.1.2
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2022-09-04 · diff ↗
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R 4.2.0 released · 2022-04-22
0.1
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2022-03-14
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R 4.1.0 released · 2021-05-18

Package metadata

First published: 2022-03-14
Total releases: 7 / 4 yrs
License: GPL (== 3.0)
Additional repositories: ericdunipace.github.io
Minimum R: ≥ 4.1.0
Bundled data: 5.6 KB / 1 file
Download size: 1.8 MB

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citation("causalOT")

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Format

APA

Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for causalOT version 1.0.4 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-21. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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