R Observatory: Metrics for causens version 0.0.3

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

causens

0.0.3Package record

Perform Causal Sensitivity Analyses Using Various Statistical Methods

0packages depend

2.3Kdownloads / year

77.9%test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Larry DongCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Website ↗Issues ↗

While data from randomized experiments remain the gold standard for causal inference, estimation of causal estimands from observational data is possible through various confounding adjustment methods. However, the challenge of unmeasured confounding remains a concern in causal inference, where failure to account for unmeasured confounders can lead to biased estimates of causal estimands. Sensitivity analysis within the framework of causal inference can help adjust for possible unmeasured confounding. In `causens`, three main methods are implemented: adjustment via sensitivity functions (Brumback, Hernán, Haneuse, and Robins (2004) doi:10.1002/sim.1657 and Li, Shen, Wu, and Li (2011) doi:10.1093/aje/kwr096), Bayesian parametric modelling and Monte Carlo approaches (McCandless, Lawrence C and Gustafson, Paul (2017) doi:10.1002/sim.7298).

Install

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

install.packages("causens", 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("Kuan-Liu-Lab/causens")

Development version from Kuan-Liu-Lab/causens. 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-causens

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-causens

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-causens

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: 23.3 min · r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

Status changes

OK13 OK2026-08-05
NOTE12 OK, 1 NOTE2026-08-01
OK14 OK2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

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Documentation

In release 0.0.3

READMEYes · 164 wordsVignettesYes · 1 · dynamicNEWSNoCitation fileNoWebsiteYes · pkgdown

Help pages: 15
Examples that run: 100%1 run in a plain check
Exported functions with examples: 9%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 100%
Help pages citing references: 0%

Vignettes (1)

causens: an R package for causal sensitivity analysis methods HTML

How these are measured

Downloads

2.3K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #17,944 · ~6/day · ~192/mo

Releases R versions

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20430 days

72490 days

2.3K1 year

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How downloads are counted

Repository

kuan-liu-lab/causens ↗Organization: Kuan-Liu-Lab

1Stars

0Forks

10Open issues

2Open PRs

3Releases

69Commits

2Commit identities

causal-inferencersensitivity-analysis

69 commits · Last activity 2025-06-03

Responsiveness

How these are sampled

PRs merged (all time): 86%
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed issues: 93
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed PRs: 1

Stars over time

2023-10-30 · 12026-07-07 · 1

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

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

Checks run against github.com/kuan-liu-lab/causens on 2026-10-21.

Continuous integration (2)

GitHub ActionsR CMD check workflow

The R CMD check workflow runs on Linux, macOS and Windows

Docs source (3)

pkgdown

GitHub Pages site last deployed 2025-06-03 · The repository has a site deploy workflow

pkgdown site last built 2025-06-03, before release 0.0.3 (2025-06-05)

Coverage (1)

Coverage reporting

Lint, format, editor (1)

RStudio project

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

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

10 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing causens adds no packages beyond those that come with R.

Depends (0)

none

Imports (0)

none

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (10)

devtools knitr pkgdown PSweight rjags rmarkdown roxygen2 testthat usethis waldo

Enhances (0)

none

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Reverse dependencies

0direct

0indirect

Nothing depends on this yet.

How these are counted

Code & Tests

People & History

People (3)

Larry Dong

Author, Maintainer since 0.0.3 (2025)

Kuan Liu

Author

Yushu Zou

Author

Releases (1)

R
R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
0.0.3Latest
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2025-06-05 · current release
R
R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11

Package metadata

First published: 2025-06-05
Total releases: 1 / 1 yrs
License: MIT + file LICENSE OSI
Download size: 521 KB

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("causens")

Format

Dong, L., Liu, K., & Zou, Y. (2025). causens: Perform Causal Sensitivity Analyses Using Various Statistical Methods (Version 0.0.3) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.causens

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 causens version 0.0.3 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-24. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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