R Observatory: Metrics for ife version 0.2.5

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

ife

0.2.5Package record

Autodiff for Influence Function Based Estimates

4packages depend

8.9Kdownloads / year

48.5%test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Nicholas WilliamsCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Issues ↗

Implements an S7 class for estimates based on influence functions, with forward mode automatic differentiation defined for standard arithmetic operations.

Changes in 0.2.5

Updates to how standard errors are calculated with clustering (see DOI: 10.1002/sim.9813 for more information).

From NEWS.md in the release

Install

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

install.packages("ife", 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("nt-williams/ife")

Development version from nt-williams/ife. 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-ife

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-ife

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-ife

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: 1.3 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 0.2.5

READMEYes · 146 wordsVignettesNoNEWSYes · 100% structured · mentions 0.2.5Citation fileNoWebsitenot declared in DESCRIPTION

Help pages: 2 (1 internal)
Examples that run: 100%1 run in a plain check
Exported functions with examples: 50%
Documented parameters: 83%
Return-value docs: 50%
Help pages citing references: 0%

How these are measured

Downloads

8.9K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #3,497 · ~24/day · ~740/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

1.4K30 days

3K90 days

8.9K1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on150 r2u3 autocran1.4K conda_forge

How downloads are counted

Repository

nt-williams/ife ↗Account: nt-williams

3Stars

0Forks

0Open issues

0Open PRs

0Releases

66Commits

1Commit identities

autodiffcausal-inferencesemiparametric-estimation

License file reads as GPL-3.0 · 66 commits · Last activity 2026-07-01

Responsiveness

How these are sampled

PRs merged (all time): 100%
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed issues: 21
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed PRs: 0

Stars over time

2025-02-15 · 32026-07-07 · 3

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

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

Checks run against github.com/nt-williams/ife on 2026-10-18.

Continuous integration (1)

GitHub Actions

Governance and community (1)

The repository owner accepts GitHub Sponsors

Docs source (1)

README.Rmd

CRAN release process (1)

cran-comments.md

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Lint, format, editor (1)

RStudio project

How this is detected·Detection ruleset v3 (2026-09-26)

AI coding toolsBeta

This repository shows signs of AI coding tools.

Claude Codefirst seen 2026-02-06
Commits: at least 2 crediting it in the message

Models named in its commits

Claude Opus 4.62 commits · Feb 2026

Counts are commits, not lines of code. Commits by a tool's accounts count once across all of its accounts. Commits crediting it are the largest count among its credit lines, a minimum.How this is detected·Detection ruleset v4 (updated 2026-09-27)

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

5 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing ife adds 5 packages (4 with compiled code, 4.0 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: Rcpp 1.8 MB, collapse 1.4 MB, cli 629 KB.

Depends (0)

none

Imports (4)

cli collapse generics S7

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (1)

testthat

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

4direct

0indirect

Imports 4

Depends, Imports or LinkingTo, most downloaded first

lmtp ria.test crumble transportr

How these are counted

Code & Tests

People & History

People (1)

Nicholas Williams

Releases (6)

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Package metadata

First published: 2024-11-08
Total releases: 6 / 2 yrs
License: GPL (>= 3) OSI
Download size: 8.0 KB

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("ife")

Format

Williams, N. (2026). ife: Autodiff for Influence Function Based Estimates (Version 0.2.5) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.ife

This package has no citation file, so citation() returns this entry built from DESCRIPTION.

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 ife version 0.2.5 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-21. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

From data release v2026-10-21, which the citation names so these numbers can be found later. More on citing and the projects behind them.

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