R Observatory: Metrics for cfid version 0.1.8

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

cfid

0.1.8Package record

Identification of Counterfactual Queries in Causal Models

1packages depend

3.6Kdownloads / year

97.0%test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Santtu TikkaCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗

Facilitates the identification of counterfactual queries in structural causal models via the ID* and IDC* algorithms by Shpitser, I. and Pearl, J. (2007, 2008) doi:10.48550/arXiv.1206.5294, https://jmlr.org/papers/v9/shpitser08a.html. Provides a simple interface for defining causal diagrams and counterfactual conjunctions. Construction of parallel worlds graphs and counterfactual graphs is carried out automatically based on the counterfactual query and the causal diagram. See Tikka, S. (2023) doi:10.32614/RJ-2023-053 for a tutorial of the package.

Changes in 0.1.8

Fixed an issue where some identifiable queries were incorrectly deemed nonidentifiable when multiple counterfactual variables shared a compatible subscript.
Updated igraph related functionality to use non-deprecated functions.

From NEWS.md in the release

Install

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

install.packages("cfid", 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("santikka/cfid")

Development version from santikka/cfid. 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-cfid

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-cfid

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-cfid

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-oldrel-macos-x86_64

Status changes

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

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 0.1.8

README· In the repository, left out of the releaseVignettesNoNEWSYes · 100% structured · mentions 0.1.8Citation fileNoWebsitenot declared in DESCRIPTION

Description cites an R Journal article

Help pages: 10includes a package overview page
Examples that run: 100%4 run in a plain check
Exported functions with examples: 50%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 100%
Help pages citing references: 10%

How these are measured

Downloads

3.6K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #9,925 · ~10/day · ~304/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

38630 days

1K90 days

3.6K1 year

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Also on129 r2u7 autocran29 c2d4u

How downloads are counted

Repository

santikka/cfid ↗Account: santikka

11Stars

1Forks

0Open issues

0Open PRs

0Releases

60Commits

2Commit identities

counterfactualcounterfactualsidentifiabilitycausal-modelscausal-inferencecausality-algorithmsdirected-acyclic-graph

License file reads as GPL-3.0 · 60 commits · Last activity 2025-11-21 · Default branch at 0.1.9, ahead of CRAN 0.1.8 (checked 2026-10-22)

Responsiveness

not measured

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

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

Checks run against github.com/santikka/cfid on 2026-10-22.

Continuous integration (2)

GitHub ActionsR CMD check workflow

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

Docs source (1)

README.Rmd

Coverage (1)

Coverage reporting (Codecov)

Research and citation (1)

codemeta.json

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

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

5 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

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

Depends (0)

none

Imports (0)

none

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (5)

covr dagitty igraph mockery testthat

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

1direct

0indirect

Imports 1

Depends, Imports or LinkingTo, most downloaded first

R6causal

How these are counted

Code & Tests

People & History

People (1)

Santtu Tikka

Author, Maintainer since 0.1.2 (2021)

Releases (5)

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R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
0.1.8Latest
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2025-10-27 · current release · diff ↗
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R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11
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R 4.4.0 released · 2024-04-24
0.1.7
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2023-11-27 · diff ↗
0.1.6
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2023-11-13 · diff ↗
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R 4.3.0 released · 2023-04-21
0.1.4
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2022-10-26 · diff ↗ ·
removed 3 exports
CounterfactualConjunction, CounterfactualVariable, Probability

added 5 exports
causal_effect, counterfactual_conjunction, counterfactual_variable, functional, probability
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R 4.2.0 released · 2022-04-22
0.1.2
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2021-06-10
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R 4.1.0 released · 2021-05-18

Package metadata

First published: 2021-06-10
Total releases: 5 / 5 yrs
License: GPL (>= 3) OSI
Download size: 39 KB

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("cfid")

Format

Tikka, S. (2025). cfid: Identification of Counterfactual Queries in Causal Models (Version 0.1.8) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.cfid

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 cfid version 0.1.8 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-24. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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