R Observatory: Metrics for causaldata version 0.1.4

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

causaldata

0.1.4Package record

Example Data Sets for Causal Inference Textbooks

1packages dependsuggested by 5

50.1Kdownloads / year

–test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Nick Huntington-KleinCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Issues ↗

Example data sets to run the example problems from causal inference textbooks. Currently, contains data sets for Huntington-Klein, Nick (2021 and 2025) "The Effect" https://theeffectbook.net, first and second edition, Cunningham, Scott (2021 and 2025, ISBN-13: 978-0-300-25168-5) "Causal Inference: The Mixtape", and Hernán, Miguel and James Robins (2020) "Causal Inference: What If" https://www.hsph.harvard.edu/miguel-hernan/causal-inference-book/.

Changes in 0.1.4

Added ccdrug data.

From NEWS.md in the release

Install

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

install.packages("causaldata", 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("NickCH-K/causaldata")

Development version from NickCH-K/causaldata. 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-causaldata

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-causaldata

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-causaldata

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: 1.4 min · r-devel-windows-x86_64

Status changes

OK13 OK2026-08-05
NOTE12 OK, 1 NOTE2026-08-01
OK13 OK2026-07-16
WARNING12 OK, 1 WARNING2026-07-15
OK14 OK2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 0.1.4

READMEYes · 125 wordsVignettesNoNEWSYes · 67% structured · mentions 0.1.4Citation fileNoWebsitenot declared in DESCRIPTION

Help pages: 35 (1 internal)includes a package overview page
Examples that run: no examples
Exported functions with examples: not tracked
Documented parameters: not tracked
Return-value docs: not tracked
Help pages citing references: 94%

How these are measured

Downloads

50.1K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #1,944 · ~137/day · ~4.2K/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

3.8K30 days

9.8K90 days

50.1K1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on1.6K r2u12 autocran105 c2d4u

How downloads are counted

Repository

nickch-k/causaldata ↗Account: NickCH-K

160Stars

34Forks

1Open issues

0Open PRs

0Releases

53Commits

2Commit identities

53 commits · Last activity 2024-11-08 · +0.6% stars, 30d

Responsiveness

How these are sampled

PRs merged (all time): 100%
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed issues: 6
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed PRs: 1

Stars over time

2025-10-05 · 1472026-10-12 · 160

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

Checks run against github.com/nickch-k/causaldata on 2026-10-21.

No development-tooling practices detected in the upstream repository.

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

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

1 external dependency (excludes base and recommended)

Installing causaldata adds 10 packages (7 with compiled code, 4.0 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: vctrs 1.0 MB, rlang 766 KB, cli 629 KB.

Depends (1)

R >= 2.10

Imports (1)

tibble

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (0)

none

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

1direct

0indirect

Imports 1

Suggested by 5

Depends, Imports or LinkingTo, most downloaded first

CausalModels

Suggests, most downloaded first

marginaleffects jointVIP stdReg2 deli outstandR

How these are counted

Code & Tests

Datasets

People & History

People (2)

Nick Huntington-Klein

Author, Maintainer since 0.1.1 (2021)

Malcolm Barrett

Author

Releases (3)

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Package metadata

First published: 2021-05-20
Total releases: 3 / 5 yrs
License: MIT + file LICENSE OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 2.10
Bundled data: 2.0 MB / 34 files
Download size: 2.1 MB

Appears in task views

Causal Inference

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("causaldata")

Format

Huntington-Klein, N., & Barrett, M. (2024). causaldata: Example Data Sets for Causal Inference Textbooks (Version 0.1.4) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.causaldata

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 causaldata version 0.1.4 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-23. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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