R Observatory: Metrics for epicmodel version 0.2.1

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

epicmodel

0.2.1Package record

Causal Modeling in Epidemiology

0packages depend

2.7Kdownloads / year

86.1%test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Felix ForsterCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Website ↗Issues ↗

Create causal models for use in epidemiological studies, including sufficient-component cause models as introduced by Rothman (1976) doi:10.1093/oxfordjournals.aje.a112335.

Changes in 0.2.1

Update email address
Update roxygen to 7.3.3
Use .internal of rlang::abort()
Use all() and any()
Replace label.size with linewidth in a call to ggplot2::geom_label()

From NEWS.md in the release

Install

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

install.packages("epicmodel", 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("forsterepi/epicmodel")

Development version from forsterepi/epicmodel. 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-epicmodel

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-epicmodel

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-epicmodel

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: 6.9 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
OK14 OK2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 0.2.1

READMEYes · 300 wordsVignettesYes · 5 · dynamicNEWSYes · 100% structured · mentions 0.2.1Citation fileYes · software entry onlyWebsiteYes · pkgdown

The repository also keeps web-only articles.

Help pages: 25 (1 internal)includes a package overview page
Examples that run: 100%21 run in a plain check (3 of them under a condition)
Exported functions with examples: 100%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 100%
Help pages citing references: 16%

Vignettes (5)

epicmodel HTML
Glossary HTML
Modules HTML
SCC Models HTML
Steplists HTML

How these are measured

Downloads

2.7K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #17,613 · ~7/day · ~223/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

27330 days

73390 days

2.7K1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on86 r2u6 autocran

How downloads are counted

Repository

forsterepi/epicmodel ↗Account: forsterepi

1Stars

0Forks

0Open issues

0Open PRs

3Releases

46Commits

1Commit identities

License file reads as GPL-3.0 · 46 commits · Last activity 2025-12-15 · 0% stars, 30d · Default branch at 0.2.1.9000, ahead of CRAN 0.2.1 (checked 2026-10-22)

Responsiveness

How these are sampled

PRs merged (all time): not measured
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed issues: 6
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed PRs: not measured

Stars over time

2026-05-18 · 12026-07-07 · 1

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

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

Checks run against github.com/forsterepi/epicmodel 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 (4)

README.Rmdpkgdown

GitHub Pages site last deployed 2025-12-15 · The repository has a site deploy workflow

pkgdown site last built 2025-12-15

CRAN release process (1)

cran-comments.md

Lint, format, editor (1)

RStudio project

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

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

26 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing epicmodel adds 94 packages (48 with compiled code, 75 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: stringi 11 MB, ggplot2 6.0 MB, bslib 5.6 MB.

Depends (2)

R >= 3.5.0magrittr

Imports (20)

checkmate cli dagitty DiagrammeR dplyr DT ggplot2 gtoolsmethodsprompter purrr rlang shiny shinyalert shinyjs shinythemes spsUtil stringr tibble tidyr

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (6)

ggdag ggforce ggraph knitr rmarkdown testthat

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)

Felix Forster

Releases (3)

Pick two releases to compare their code metrics.

R
R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
0.2.1Latest
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2025-12-15 · current release · diff ↗
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R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11
0.2.0
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2024-12-11 · diff ↗ ·
added 3 exports
necessary_causes, prevent, uncheck_steplist
0.1.1
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2024-11-08
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R 4.4.0 released · 2024-04-24

Package metadata

First published: 2024-11-08
Total releases: 3 / 2 yrs
License: GPL (>= 3) OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 3.5.0
Bundled data: 3.7 KB / 3 files
Download size: 708 KB

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' entry:

citation("epicmodel")

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

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 epicmodel version 0.2.1 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-24. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

From data release v2026-10-24, which the citation names so these numbers can be found later. More on citing and the projects behind them.

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