R Observatory: Metrics for ltmle version 1.3-0

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

ltmle

1.3-0Package record

Longitudinal Targeted Maximum Likelihood Estimation

0packages dependsuggested by 1

9.6Kdownloads / year

90.2%test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Joshua SchwabCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Website ↗Issues ↗

Targeted Maximum Likelihood Estimation ('TMLE') of treatment/censoring specific mean outcome or marginal structural model for point-treatment and longitudinal data.

Changes in 1.3-0

Apply deterministic.Q.function before UpdateQ instead of after
use glm instead of speedglm because speedglm was removed from CRAN
moved vignettes to articles to avoid long check times on CRAN

From NEWS in the release

Install

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

install.packages("ltmle", 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("joshuaschwab/ltmle")

Development version from joshuaschwab/ltmle. 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-ltmle

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-ltmle

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-ltmle

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: 2.0 min · r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

Status changes

OK13 OK2026-08-05
NOTE12 OK, 1 NOTE2026-08-01
OK13 OK2026-05-08
WARNING12 OK, 1 WARNING2026-05-07
OK14 OK2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 1.3-0

READMEYes · 12 wordsVignettesNoNEWSYes · 33% structured · mentions 1.3-0Citation fileYes · cites a publicationWebsiteYes · pkgdown

Cites a JSS article

Help pages: 6includes a package overview page
Examples that run: 83%5 run in a plain check · 1 hold no code
Exported functions with examples: 100%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 100%
Help pages citing references: 17%

How these are measured

Downloads

9.6K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #5,189 · ~26/day · ~799/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

68030 days

1.6K90 days

9.6K1 year

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Also on99 r2u9 autocran834 conda_forge106 c2d4u

How downloads are counted

Repository

joshuaschwab/ltmle ↗Account: joshuaschwab

30Stars

18Forks

10Open issues

1Open PRs

0Releases

188Commits

3Commit identities

188 commits · Last activity 2023-04-17 · +3.4% stars, 30d

Responsiveness

How these are sampled

PRs merged (all time): 56%
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed issues: 52
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed PRs: 1

Stars over time

2025-09-11 · 252026-10-13 · 30

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

6 development-tooling and community-health practices detected across 3 families in the upstream repository

Checks run against github.com/joshuaschwab/ltmle on 2026-10-11.

Continuous integration (1)

GitHub Actions

Docs source (3)

pkgdown

GitHub Pages site last deployed 2023-04-17 · The repository has a site deploy workflow

pkgdown site last built 2023-04-17

CRAN release process (2)

cran-comments.mdCRAN-SUBMISSION

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

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

8 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing ltmle adds 1 package (1 with compiled code, 207 KB of source tarballs). Heaviest: matrixStats 207 KB.

Depends (1)

R >= 3.1.0

Imports (2)

MatrixmatrixStats

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (7)

SuperLearner testthat tmle knitr rmarkdown nnls arm

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

0direct

0indirect

Suggested by 1

Suggests, most downloaded first

simcausal

How these are counted

Code & Tests

Datasets

People & History

People (5)

Joshua Schwab

Author, Maintainer since 0.9 (2013)

Samuel Lendle

Author · added in 0.9.1

Maya Petersen

Author

Mark van der Laan

Author

Susan Gruber

Contributor

Releases (18)

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R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
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R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11
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R 4.4.0 released · 2024-04-24
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R 4.3.0 released · 2023-04-21
unarchivedReturned to CRAN
2023-04-15
archivedRemoved from CRAN
2023-03-31
requires archived package 'speedglm'
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R 4.2.0 released · 2022-04-22
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R 4.1.0 released · 2021-05-18
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R 4.0.0 released · 2020-04-24
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R 3.6.0 released · 2019-04-26
unarchivedReturned to CRAN
2018-08-20
archivedRemoved from CRAN
2018-07-20
check problems were not corrected despite reminders
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R 3.5.0 released · 2018-04-23
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R 3.4.0 released · 2017-04-21
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R 3.3.0 released · 2016-05-03
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R 3.2.0 released · 2015-04-16

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R 3.1.0 released · 2014-04-10
3.0.3Latest
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2013-12-10 · current release · diff ↗
3.0.1
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2013-05-03 · diff ↗ ·
added 2 exports
ltmle, ltmleMSM
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2013-10-18 · diff ↗ ·
added 5 exports
BinaryToCensoring, MaintainControl, MaintainTreatment, deterministic.Q.function_template, deterministic.g.function_template
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2013-05-06
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R 3.0.0 released · 2013-04-03

Package metadata

First published: 2013-05-03
Total releases: 18 / 13 yrs
License: GPL-2 OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 3.1.0
Bundled data: 2.6 KB / 1 file
Download size: 71 KB

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Causal Inference

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' entry:

citation("ltmle")

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

It points to 10.18637/jss.v081.i01.

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 ltmle version 1.3-0 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-18. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

From data release v2026-10-18, which the citation names so these numbers can be found later. More on citing and the projects behind them.

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