R Observatory: Metrics for causalPAF version 1.2.5

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

causalPAF

1.2.5Package record

Causal Effect for Population Attributable Fractions (PAF)

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2.9Kdownloads / year

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Overview

About

Maintained by Maurice O'ConnellCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Issues ↗

Calculates population attributable fraction causal effects. The 'causalPAF' package contains a suite of functions for causal analysis calculations of population attributable fractions (PAF) given a causal diagram which apply both: Pathway-specific population attributable fractions (PS-PAFs) O’Connell and Ferguson (2022) doi:10.1093/ije/dyac079 and Sequential population attributable fractions Ferguson, O’Connell, and O’Donnell (2020) doi:10.1186/s13690-020-00442-x. Results are presentable in both table and plot format.

Changes in 1.2.5

In Description changed version from 1.2.5.9019 to 1.2.5.

From NEWS.md in the release

Install

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

install.packages("causalPAF", 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("MauriceOConnell/causalPAF")

Development version from MauriceOConnell/causalPAF. 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-causalpaf

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-causalPAF

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-causalPAF

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

13NOTE

Check messages

NOTERd filesr-devel-linux-x86_64-debian-clang, r-devel-linux-x86_64-debian-gcc, r-devel-linux-x86_64-fedora-clang, r-devel-linux-x86_64-fedora-gcc, r-devel-windows-x86_64, r-oldrel-macos-arm64, r-oldrel-macos-x86_64, r-oldrel-windows-x86_64, r-patched-linux-x86_64, r-release-linux-x86_64, r-release-macos-arm64, r-release-macos-x86_64, r-release-windows-x86_64

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    60 |              {SC , SB , SP , SD , Y }, and summarized by the causal graphs in
       |              ^
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    49 |              individual’s behaviour SB = {Smoking, Alcohol intake, inactivity, diet and stress},
       |                                          ^
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    50 |              their physiology SP = {High blood pressure, ApoB/ApoA ratio, Waist hip ratio}
       |                                    ^
checkRd: (-1) strokedata_smallSample.Rd:52: Lost braces; missing escapes or markup?
    52 |              SD = {Cardiac risk factors, Pre clinical diabetes}.
       |                   ^
checkRd: (-1) strokedata_smallSample.Rd:60: Lost braces; missing escapes or markup?
    60 |              {SC , SB , SP , SD , Y }, and summarized by the causal graphs in
       |              ^

CRAN check page ↗

Slowest check: 2.1 min · r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

Status changes

NOTE13 NOTE2026-06-09
ERROR12 NOTE, 1 ERROR2026-06-08
NOTE14 NOTE2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

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Documentation

In release 1.2.5

READMEYes · 258 wordsVignettesNoNEWSYes · 67% structured · mentions 1.2.5Citation fileNoWebsitenot declared in DESCRIPTION

Help pages: 19 (13 internal)
Examples that run: 17%1 run in a plain check · 3 only when donttest examples are enabled (R CMD check --as-cran) · 2 hold no code
Exported functions with examples: 35%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 100%
Help pages citing references: 0%

How these are measured

Downloads

2.9K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #14,774 · ~8/day · ~239/mo

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Repository

mauriceoconnell/causalpaf ↗Account: MauriceOConnell

2Stars

1Forks

0Open issues

0Open PRs

1Releases

41Commits

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41 commits · Last activity 2022-08-20

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Stars over time

2025-02-20 · 22026-07-07 · 2

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

4 development-tooling and community-health practices detected across 3 families in the upstream repository

Checks run against github.com/mauriceoconnell/causalpaf on 2026-10-18.

Docs source (1)

README.Rmd

CRAN release process (2)

cran-comments.mdCRAN-SUBMISSION

Lint, format, editor (1)

RStudio project

How this is detected·Detection ruleset v3 (2026-09-26)

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

11 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing causalPAF adds 62 packages (39 with compiled code, 61 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: stringi 11 MB, ggplot2 6.0 MB, data.table 5.7 MB.

Depends (1)

R >= 2.10

Imports (15)

checkmate dagitty dplyr forestplot ggdag ggplot2gridgridExtra magrittrMASSreshape2 rlistsplinesstatsutils

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People (2)

Maurice O'Connell

John Ferguson

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Package metadata

First published: 2021-10-26
Total releases: 2 / 5 yrs
License: GPL (>= 2) OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 2.10
Bundled data: 336 KB / 2 files
Download size: 1.0 MB

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("causalPAF")

Format

O'Connell, M., & Ferguson, J. (2022). causalPAF: Causal Effect for Population Attributable Fractions (PAF) (Version 1.2.5) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.causalPAF

This package has no citation file, so citation() returns this entry built from DESCRIPTION.

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Format

APA

Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for causalPAF version 1.2.5 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-21. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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