R Observatory: Metrics for mvGPS version 1.2.2

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

mvGPS

1.2.2Package record

Causal Inference using Multivariate Generalized Propensity Score

0packages depend

3.1Kdownloads / year

95.2%test coverage

7/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Justin WilliamsCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Issues ↗

Methods for estimating and utilizing the multivariate generalized propensity score (mvGPS) for multiple continuous exposures described in Williams, J.R, and Crespi, C.M. (2020) arxiv:2008.13767. The methods allow estimation of a dose-response surface relating the joint distribution of multiple continuous exposure variables to an outcome. Weights are constructed assuming a multivariate normal density for the marginal and conditional distribution of exposures given a set of confounders. Confounders can be different for different exposure variables. The weights are designed to achieve balance across all exposure dimensions and can be used to estimate dose-response surfaces.

Changes in 1.2.2

Remove hyperlink LaTex equations from README to prevent errors

From NEWS in the release

Install

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

install.packages("mvGPS", 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("williazo/mvGPS")

Development version from williazo/mvGPS. 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-mvgps

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-mvGPS

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-mvGPS

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

6NOTE7OK

Check messages

NOTECRAN incoming feasibilityr-devel-linux-x86_64-debian-clang, r-devel-linux-x86_64-debian-gcc

Maintainer: ‘Justin Williams <williazo@ucla.edu>’

Package CITATION file contains call(s) to old-style personList() or
as.personList().  Please use c() on person objects instead.

The Description field contains
  Williams, J.R, and Crespi, C.M. (2020) <arxiv:2008.13767>. The methods
Please refer to arXiv e-prints via their arXiv DOI <doi:10.48550/arXiv.YYMM.NNNNN>.

NOTERd filesr-oldrel-macos-arm64, r-oldrel-macos-x86_64

checkRd: (-1) bal.Rd:156: Escaped LaTeX specials: \&

NOTEdependencies in R coder-devel-linux-x86_64-fedora-clang, r-devel-linux-x86_64-fedora-gcc

Namespace in Imports field not imported from:
  ‘Rdpack’
All declared Imports should be used.

CRAN check page ↗

Slowest check: 3.5 min · r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

Status changes

NOTE7 OK, 6 NOTE2026-10-17
WARNING7 OK, 5 NOTE, 1 WARNING2026-08-26
NOTE5 OK, 9 NOTE2026-04-10
ERROR5 OK, 8 NOTE, 1 ERROR2026-04-09
NOTE3 OK, 11 NOTE2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 1.2.2

READMENoVignettesYes · 1 · dynamicNEWSYes · 100% structured · mentions 1.2.2Citation fileYes · software entry onlyWebsitenot declared in DESCRIPTION

Help pages: 6 (2 internal)
Examples that run: 100%4 run in a plain check
Exported functions with examples: 100%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 100%
Help pages citing references: 50% with a bibliography file

Vignettes (1)

mvGPS-intro HTML

How these are measured

Downloads

3.1K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #12,611 · ~9/day · ~262/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

32430 days

89090 days

3.1K1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on82 r2u2 autocran92 c2d4u

How downloads are counted

Repository

williazo/mvgps ↗Account: williazo

13Stars

0Forks

2Open issues

0Open PRs

0Releases

106Commits

1Commit identities

106 commits · Last activity 2021-12-08

Responsiveness

How these are sampled

PRs merged (all time): 100%
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed issues: 3
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed PRs: 0

Stars over time

2024-10-26 · 132026-07-07 · 13

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

2 development-tooling and community-health practices detected across 2 families in the upstream repository

Checks run against github.com/williazo/mvgps on 2026-10-18.

Continuous integration (1)

Travis CI (config file)

Git structural (1)

.gitattributes

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

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

15 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing mvGPS adds 45 packages (18 with compiled code, 38 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: ggplot2 6.0 MB, sp 4.3 MB, glmnet 2.7 MB.

Depends (1)

R >= 3.6

Imports (9)

RdpackMASSWeightIt cobalt matrixNormal geometry sp gbm CBPS

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (7)

testthat knitr dagitty ggdag dplyr rmarkdown ggplot2

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)

Justin Williams

Author, Maintainer since 1.0.2 (2020)

Releases (4)

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Package metadata

First published: 2020-09-17
Total releases: 4 / 6 yrs
License: MIT + file LICENSE OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 3.6
Download size: 166 KB

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Run in R for the authors' entry:

citation("mvGPS")

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Format

APA

Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for mvGPS version 1.2.2 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-22. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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