R Observatory: Metrics for konfound version 1.0.3

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

konfound

1.0.3Package record

Quantify the Robustness of Causal Inferences

0packages dependsuggested by 3

11.8Kdownloads / year

75.3%test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Joshua M RosenbergCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Website ↗Issues ↗

Statistical methods that quantify the conditions necessary to alter inferences, also known as sensitivity analysis, are becoming increasingly important to a variety of quantitative sciences. A series of recent works, including Frank (2000) doi:10.1177/0049124100029002001 and Frank et al. (2013) doi:10.3102/0162373713493129 extend previous sensitivity analyses by considering the characteristics of omitted variables or unobserved cases that would change an inference if such variables or cases were observed. These analyses generate statements such as "an omitted variable would have to be correlated at xx with the predictor of interest (e.g., the treatment) and outcome to invalidate an inference of a treatment effect". Or "one would have to replace pp percent of the observed data with nor which the treatment had no effect to invalidate the inference". We implement these recent developments of sensitivity analysis and provide modules to calculate these two robustness indices and generate such statements in R. In particular, the functions konfound(), pkonfound() and mkonfound() allow users to calculate the robustness of inferences for a user's own model, a single published study and multiple studies respectively.

Changes in 1.0.3

fix sign problems in print output for some cases
separate out conditional RIR from COP
add the ability to enter a confidence interval instead of an estimated effect
add calculation code and print output for RIR/ITCV benchmark (pkonfound)
add impact table for konfound
update help file for pkonfound

From NEWS.md in the release

Install

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

install.packages("konfound", 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("konfound-project/konfound")

Development version from konfound-project/konfound. 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-konfound

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-konfound

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-konfound

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: 4.0 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 1.0.3

READMEYes · 426 wordsVignettesYes · 1 · dynamicNEWSYes · 100% structured · mentions 1.0.3Citation fileNoWebsiteYes · pkgdown

Help pages: 26
Examples that run: 75%3 run in a plain check · 1 never run
Exported functions with examples: 80%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 80%
Help pages citing references: 4%

Vignettes (1)

Introduction to konfound HTML

How these are measured

Downloads

11.8K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #3,574 · ~32/day · ~981/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

1.6K30 days

2.9K90 days

11.8K1 year

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Also on77 r2u13 autocran

How downloads are counted

Repository

konfound-project/konfound ↗Organization: konfound-project

18Stars

10Forks

10Open issues

2Open PRs

2Releases

1,017Commits

15Commit identities

1,017 commits · Last activity 2026-08-06 · Default branch at 1.0.4, ahead of CRAN 1.0.3 (checked 2026-10-11)

Responsiveness

How these are sampled

PRs merged (all time): 85%
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed issues: 79
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed PRs: 0

Stars over time

2025-06-10 · 182026-07-07 · 18

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

13 development-tooling and community-health practices detected across 6 families in the upstream repository

Checks run against github.com/konfound-project/konfound on 2026-10-11.

Continuous integration (3)

GitHub ActionsR CMD check workflowTravis CI (config file)

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

Governance and community (2)

Code of conductContributing guide

Docs source (4)

README.Rmdpkgdown

GitHub Pages site last deployed 2026-08-06 · The repository has a site deploy workflow

pkgdown site last built 2026-08-06

Coverage (1)

Coverage reporting (Codecov)

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CRAN release process (2)

cran-comments.mdCRAN-SUBMISSION

Lint, format, editor (1)

RStudio project

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

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

22 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing konfound adds 69 packages (36 with compiled code, 61 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: stringi 11 MB, ggplot2 6.0 MB, broom.mixed 4.9 MB.

Depends (1)

R >= 3.5.0

Imports (14)

broom broom.mixed crayon dplyr ggplot2 lavaan purrr rlang tidyr lme4 tibble ggrepel pbkrtest ppcor

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (9)

covr devtools forcats knitr rmarkdown mice roxygen2 testthatMatrix

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

0direct

0indirect

Suggested by 3

Suggests, most downloaded first

confoundvis causalfrag CEDMr

How these are counted

Code & Tests

Datasets

People & History

People (12)

Joshua M Rosenberg

Author, Maintainer since 0.1.0 (2018)

Xuesen Cheng

Contributor · added in 1.0.1

JiHoon Choi

Contributor · added in 1.0.1

Yunhe Cui

Contributor · added in 1.0.1

Kenneth A Frank

Contributor

Qinyun Lin

Contributor · added in 0.2.1

Spiro Maroulis

Contributor · added in 0.3.0

Sarah Narvaiz

Contributor · added in 0.5.0

Guan Saw

Contributor · added in 1.0.1

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Wei Wang

Contributor · added in 0.5.0

Ran Xu

Contributor

Gaofei Zhang

Contributor · added in 1.0.1

Listed in earlier versions (2)

Kenneth A

no longer listed · 0.1.0 to 1.0.3

Joshua M

no longer listed · 0.1.0 to 1.0.3

Releases (12)

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R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
1.0.3Latest
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R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11
1.0.2
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2024-10-17 · diff ↗
1.0.1
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2024-10-08 · diff ↗ ·
added 1 export
tkonfound_fig
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R 4.4.0 released · 2024-04-24
unarchivedReturned to CRAN
2024-04-12
archivedRemoved from CRAN
2024-04-12
requires archived package 'margins'
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removed 1 export
launch_shiny

added 1 export
tkonfound
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R 4.3.0 released · 2023-04-21
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R 4.2.0 released · 2022-04-22
unarchivedReturned to CRAN
2021-06-01
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R 4.1.0 released · 2021-05-18
archivedRemoved from CRAN
2021-01-16
policy violation On Internet access

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0.3.0
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2020-12-17 · diff ↗ ·
removed 3 exports
getswitch_chisq, tkonfound, tkonfound_fig
unarchivedReturned to CRAN
2020-08-18
0.2.2
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2020-08-18 · diff ↗ ·
added 3 exports
getswitch_chisq, tkonfound, tkonfound_fig
archivedRemoved from CRAN
2020-07-25
check problems were not corrected in time
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R 4.0.0 released · 2020-04-24
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R 3.6.0 released · 2019-04-26
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2019-04-12 · diff ↗
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2019-01-21 · diff ↗
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R 3.5.0 released · 2018-04-23
0.1.0
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2018-04-06
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R 3.4.0 released · 2017-04-21

Package metadata

First published: 2018-04-06
Total releases: 12 / 8 yrs
License: MIT + file LICENSE OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 3.5.0
Bundled data: 6.1 KB / 3 files
Download size: 104 KB

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("konfound")

Format

Rosenberg, J. M., Cheng, X., Choi, J., Cui, Y., Frank, K. A., Lin, Q., Maroulis, S., Narvaiz, S., Saw, G., Wang, W., Xu, R., & Zhang, G. (2025). konfound: Quantify the Robustness of Causal Inferences (Version 1.0.3) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.konfound

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Format

APA

Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for konfound version 1.0.3 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-17. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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