R Observatory: Metrics for konfound version 1.0.3

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

konfound

1.0.3

Quantify the Robustness of Causal Inferences

2packages depend

11.2Kdownloads / year

75.3%test coverage

13/13checks pass

Overview

About

Maintained by Joshua M RosenbergFirst published 2018-04-0612 releasesCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗

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.

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.

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).

Health

CRAN checks

13OK

Slowest check: 4.3 min · r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

Code health

Yes

Tests · ratio 0.19

75.3%

Coverage · measured lines

100%

Documentation · exports

14

Dependencies · direct

Check history

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13 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
ERROR2026-06-08
12 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 1 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
OK2026-03-10
14 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE

Documentation

READMEYes · 426 wordsVignettesYes · dynamicpkgdown siteNoNEWSYes · 100% structuredCode of conductNoContributing guideNo

Examples that run: 75%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 80%
References docs: 4%

Downloads

11.2K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #3,435 · ~31/day · ~930/mo

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Repository

GitHub ↗ konfound-project/konfound

18Stars

10Forks

10Open issues

2Open PRs

2Releases

1,017Commits

15Contributors

1,017 commits · Last activity 2026-08-19

Stars over time

2025-06-10 · 182026-07-07 · 18

Repository practices

Upstream repositoryBeta

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

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Continuous integration (2)

GitHub ActionsTravis CI

CRAN release process (2)

cran-comments.mdCRAN-SUBMISSION

Docs source (1)

README.Rmd

Lint, format, editor (1)

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Coverage (1)

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Dependencies

Declared dependencies

22 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

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

2direct

0indirect

CEDMr causalfrag

Code & Tests

Datasets

People & History

People (12)

Maintainer (1)

Joshua M Rosenberg

Author, Maintainer

Authors (1)

Joshua M Rosenberg

Author, Maintainer

Contributors (11)

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

Show 3 more contributors

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

Package Timeline

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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
Installed size: not tracked yet
With dependencies: not tracked yet

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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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Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for konfound version 1.0.3 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-08-22. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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