R Observatory: Metrics for causaldef version 0.2.0

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

causaldef

0.2.0

Decision-Theoretic Causal Diagnostics via Le Cam Deficiency

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1.1Kdownloads / year

60.7%test coverage

13/13checks pass

Overview

About

Maintained by Deniz AkdemirFirst published 2026-03-311 releasesCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗

Implements Le Cam deficiency theory for causal inference, as described in Akdemir (2026) doi:10.5281/zenodo.18367347. 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.

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.

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).

Health

CRAN checks

13OK

Slowest check: 7.9 min · r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

Code health

Yes

Tests · ratio 0.26

60.7%

Coverage · measured lines

100%

Documentation · exports

5

Dependencies · direct

Check history

OK2026-08-05
13 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
NOTE2026-08-01
12 OK · 1 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
OK2026-06-09
13 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
ERROR2026-06-08
12 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 1 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
OK2026-04-01
7 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE

Documentation

READMEYes · 523 wordsVignettesYes · dynamicpkgdown siteNoNEWSYes · 100% structuredCode of conductNoContributing guideNo

Examples that run: 79%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 100%
References docs: 17%

Downloads

1.1K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #17,399 · ~3/day · ~88/mo

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Repository

GitHub ↗ denizakdemir/causaldef

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Last activity 2026-08-10

Repository practices

Upstream repositoryBeta

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

Checks run against github.com/denizakdemir/causaldef on 2026-08-16.

Reproducibility and dev environment (1)

data-raw/

CRAN release process (1)

cran-comments.md

Docs source (1)

README.Rmd

How this is detected·Detection ruleset v1 (2026-07-18)

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

16 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

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

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none

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Code & Tests

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People & History

People (1)

Maintainer (1)

Deniz Akdemir

Author, Maintainer

Authors (1)

Deniz Akdemir

Author, Maintainer

Package Timeline

1 release. R releases are shown for context.

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

Package metadata

First published: 2026-03-31
Total releases: 1 / 1 yrs
License: MIT + file LICENSE OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 3.6.0
Bundled data: 378 KB / 4 files
Download size: 1.0 MB
Installed size: not tracked yet
With dependencies: not tracked yet

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Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("causaldef")

Format

Akdemir, D. (2026). causaldef: Decision-Theoretic Causal Diagnostics via Le Cam Deficiency (Version 0.2.0) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.causaldef

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Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for causaldef version 0.2.0 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-08-18. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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