R Observatory: Metrics for infocausality version 1.1

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

infocausality

1.1Package record

Information-Theoretic Measure of Causality

0packages depend

2.8Kdownloads / year

–test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Wenbo LyuCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Website ↗Issues ↗

Methods for quantifying temporal and spatial causality through information flow, and decomposing it into unique, redundant, and synergistic components, following the framework described in Martinez-Sanchez et al. (2024) doi:10.1038/s41467-024-53373-4.

Changes in 1.1

supersession noice

This package is now **superseded** by infoxtr.

From NEWS.md in the release

Install

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

install.packages("infocausality", 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("stscl/infocausality")

Development version from stscl/infocausality. 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-infocausality

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-infocausality

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-infocausality

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: 5.9 min · r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

Status changes

OK13 OK2026-08-05
NOTE12 OK, 1 NOTE2026-08-01
OK13 OK2026-06-09
WARNING12 OK, 1 WARNING2026-06-08
OK14 OK2026-04-22

Show 2 earlier changesHide 2 earlier changes

ERROR13 OK, 1 ERROR2026-04-18
OK14 OK2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 1.1

READMEYes · 172 wordsVignettesYes · 1 · staticNEWSYes · 100% structured · mentions 1.1Citation fileYes · software entry onlyWebsiteYes · pkgdown

Help pages: 1
Examples that run: 100%1 run in a plain check
Exported functions with examples: 100%
Documented parameters: not tracked
Return-value docs: not tracked
Help pages citing references: 100%

Vignettes (1)

surd HTML

How these are measured

Downloads

2.8K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #16,619 · ~8/day · ~229/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

26330 days

76290 days

2.8K1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on523 r2u4 autocran

How downloads are counted

Repository

stscl/infocausality ↗Organization: stscl

9Stars

1Forks

0Open issues

0Open PRs

2Releases

199Commits

1Commit identities

causal-discoverycausalityentropy-measuresinformation-flowtemporal-causalitytime-series-analysisinfo-theory

199 commits · Last activity 2026-03-21 · 0% stars, 30d · Default branch at 1.2, ahead of CRAN 1.1 (checked 2026-10-22)

Responsiveness

How these are sampled

PRs merged (all time): 100%
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed issues: not measured
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed PRs: 0

Stars over time

2025-10-14 · 52026-08-20 · 9

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/stscl/infocausality 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 2026-03-21 · The repository has a site deploy workflow

pkgdown site last built 2026-03-21

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

13 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing infocausality adds 42 packages (32 with compiled code, 42 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: sf 9.3 MB, spdep 4.5 MB, sp 4.3 MB.

Depends (1)

R >= 4.1.0

Imports (5)

methodsreticulate sdsfun sf terra

LinkingTo (1)

Rcpp

Suggests (8)

gdverse ggplot2 infoxtr knitr Rcpp rmarkdown spEDM tEDM

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

0direct

0indirect

Nothing depends on this yet.

How these are counted

Code & Tests

People & History

People (1)

Wenbo Lyu

Author, Maintainer, Copyright holder · added in 1.1

Maintainer since 1.0 (2025)

Listed in earlier versions (1)

Wenbo Lv

no longer listed · 1.0

Releases (2)

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Package metadata

First published: 2025-11-03
Total releases: 2 / 1 yrs
License: GPL-3 OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 4.1.0
Download size: 213 KB

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' entry:

citation("infocausality")

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

It points to 10.32614/cran.package.infocausality.

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 infocausality version 1.1 [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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