R Observatory: Metrics for flexCausal version 0.1.0

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

flexCausal

0.1.0Package record

Causal Effect Estimation via Doubly Robust One-Step Estimators and TMLE in Graphical Models with Unmeasured Variables

0packages depend

2.7Kdownloads / year

64.2%test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Anna GuoCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Issues ↗

Provides doubly robust one-step and targeted maximum likelihood (TMLE) estimators for average causal effects in acyclic directed mixed graphs (ADMGs) with unmeasured variables. Automatically determines whether the treatment effect is identified via backdoor adjustment or the extended front-door functional, and dispatches to the appropriate estimator. Supports incorporation of machine learning algorithms via 'SuperLearner' and cross-fitting for nuisance estimation. Methods are described in Guo and Nabi (2024) doi:10.48550/arXiv.2409.03962.

Changes in 0.1.0

Initial CRAN release providing doubly robust one-step and TMLE estimators for ADMGs with latent variables.
Bundled graph functions (make.graph(), f.parents(), etc.) to streamline identifiability checks.
Added simulated datasets (data_example_a, data_example_b, data_backdoor) to reproduce README/vignette examples.

From NEWS.md in the release

Install

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

install.packages("flexCausal", 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("annaguo-bios/flexCausal")

Development version from annaguo-bios/flexCausal. 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-flexcausal

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-flexCausal

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-flexCausal

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: 2.3 min · r-release-macos-x86_64

Status changes

OK13 OK2026-08-05
NOTE12 OK, 1 NOTE2026-08-01
OK7 OK2026-03-30

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 0.1.0

READMEYes · 3,287 wordsVignettesYes · 1 · dynamicNEWSYes · 33% structured · mentions 0.1.0Citation fileYes · cites a publicationWebsitenot declared in DESCRIPTION

Help pages: 20 (1 internal)
Examples that run: 100%15 run in a plain check
Exported functions with examples: 100%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 100%
Help pages citing references: 20%

Vignettes (1)

flexCausal HTML

How these are measured

Downloads

2.7K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #10,367 · ~7/day · ~222/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

36530 days

99090 days

2.7K1 year

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Also on47 r2u7 autocran

How downloads are counted

Repository

annaguo-bios/flexcausal ↗Account: annaguo-bios

11Stars

1Forks

0Open issues

0Open PRs

1Releases

99Commits

4Commit identities

License file reads as GPL-3.0 · 99 commits · Last activity 2026-03-19 · +10% stars, 30d

Responsiveness

not measured

Stars over time

2025-10-20 · 92026-09-26 · 11

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

2 development-tooling and community-health practices detected across 2 families in the upstream repository

Checks run against github.com/annaguo-bios/flexcausal on 2026-10-18.

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

10 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing flexCausal adds 29 packages (16 with compiled code, 18 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: data.table 5.7 MB, gplots 4.6 MB, mvtnorm 1.0 MB.

Depends (1)

R >= 4.1

Imports (8)

rlang dplyr SuperLearner densratioMASSmvtnormstatsutils

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (5)

knitr rmarkdown testthat earth ranger

Enhances (0)

none

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Reverse dependencies

0direct

0indirect

Nothing depends on this yet.

How these are counted

Code & Tests

Datasets

People & History

People (2)

Anna Guo

Author, Maintainer since 0.1.0 (2026)

https://github.com/annaguo-bios

Razieh Nabi

Author

Releases (1)

R
R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
0.1.0Latest
record
2026-03-29 · current release
R
R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11

Package metadata

First published: 2026-03-29
Total releases: 1 / 1 yrs
License: GPL-3 OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 4.1
Bundled data: 258 KB / 4 files
Download size: 4.5 MB

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' entry:

citation("flexCausal")

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

Cite the R Observatory

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Format

APA

Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for flexCausal version 0.1.0 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-22. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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