R Observatory: Metrics for causaldef version 0.2.1

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

causaldef

0.2.1Package record

Decision-Theoretic Causal Diagnostics via Experiment Deficiency

0packages depend

1.7Kdownloads / year

60.5%test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Deniz AkdemirCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Issues ↗

Implements a deficiency-theoretic framework for causal inference, grounded in the classical theory of statistical experiment comparison, as described in Akdemir (2026) doi:10.5281/zenodo.21877511. Provides theorem-backed bounds together with computable proxy diagnostics for information loss from confounding, selection bias, and distributional shift. Supports continuous, binary, count, survival, and competing risks outcomes. Key features include propensity-score total-variation deficiency proxies, negative control diagnostics, policy regret bounds, and sensitivity analysis via confounding frontiers.

Changes in 0.2.1

Bug Fixes

**confounding_frontier() / .tv_distance_normal()**: Fixed a numerical bug in the closed-form crossing-point TV computation that returned values near 0 instead of near 1 when both Gaussian components have very small standard deviations relative to their mean separation (a near-degenerate point-mass regime where the quadratic discriminant loses precision). Replaced with integration split into pieces sized to each component's own sd. Verified against an independently-constructed cross-check across 3000 random cases spanning 8 orders of magnitude in sd (max discrepancy ~4e-8); the function's default usage range within confounding_frontier() was never affected by this bug.

Documentation

Show all changes in 0.2.1Hide the rest of the changes in 0.2.1

Removed an unspecified "universal constant" phrase from rkhs_rate_bound() and confounding_frontier() documentation (the underlying manuscript bound was found to not hold with any single universal constant for large sigma_A and was replaced with an explicit, unconditional bound).
Hedged interpretive guidance in the README and vignettes.
Reworded documentation, README, and vignettes to reduce narrative over-attribution to "Le Cam" (e.g. "Le Cam deficiency" to "deficiency", "Le Cam's theory" to "the classical theory of statistical experiment comparison"), while keeping the Le Cam & Yang (2000) bibliography citation. No functional code changes from this item.

From NEWS.md in the release

Install

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

install.packages("causaldef", 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("denizakdemir/causaldef")

Development version from denizakdemir/causaldef. 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-causaldef

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-causaldef

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-causaldef

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: 8.2 min · r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

Status changes

OK13 OK2026-08-05
NOTE12 OK, 1 NOTE2026-08-01
OK13 OK2026-06-09
ERROR12 OK, 1 ERROR2026-06-08
OK7 OK2026-04-01

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 0.2.1

READMEYes · 557 wordsVignettesYes · 11 · dynamicNEWSYes · 100% structured · mentions 0.2.1Citation fileYes · cites a publicationWebsitenot declared in DESCRIPTION

Help pages: 55 (4 internal)includes a package overview page
Examples that run: 79%11 run in a plain check · 1 only when donttest examples are enabled (R CMD check --as-cran) · 2 never run
Exported functions with examples: 56%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 100%
Help pages citing references: 16%

Vignettes (11)

Show 1 moreHide 1 vignette

Transportability and Policy Learning HTML

How these are measured

Downloads

1.7K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #12,913 · ~5/day · ~145/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

34430 days

86590 days

1.7K1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on72 r2u22 autocran

How downloads are counted

Repository

denizakdemir/causaldef ↗Account: denizakdemir

0Stars

0Forks

0Open issues

0Open PRs

0Releases

Last activity 2026-08-23

Responsiveness

not measured

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/denizakdemir/causaldef on 2026-10-11.

Docs source (2)

README.Rmdpkgdown

Reproducibility and dev environment (1)

data-raw/

CRAN release process (1)

cran-comments.md

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

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

16 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing causaldef adds 19 packages (9 with compiled code, 14 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: ggplot2 6.0 MB, isoband 1.5 MB, farver 1.2 MB.

Depends (1)

R >= 3.6.0

Imports (5)

checkmate cli ggplot2statsgraphics

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (14)

survivalMatchIt tmle SuperLearner grf future.apply glue shiny plumber jsonlite cmprsk testthat knitr rmarkdown

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

0direct

0indirect

Nothing depends on this yet.

How these are counted

Code & Tests

Datasets

People & History

People (1)

Deniz Akdemir

Author, Maintainer since 0.2.0 (2026)

Releases (2)

Pick two releases to compare their code metrics.

R
R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
0.2.1Latest
record
2026-03-31 · current release · diff ↗
0.2.0
record
2026-03-31
R
R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11

Package metadata

First published: 2026-03-31
Total releases: 2 / 1 yrs
License: MIT + file LICENSE OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 3.6.0
Bundled data: 378 KB / 4 files
Download size: 1.2 MB

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' entry:

citation("causaldef")

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

It points to 10.5281/zenodo.21877511.

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 causaldef version 0.2.1 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-18. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

From data release v2026-10-18, which the citation names so these numbers can be found later. More on citing and the projects behind them.

Report a problem with this page →