R Observatory: Metrics for simDAG version 1.0.1

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

simDAG

1.0.1

Simulate Data from a (Time-Dependent) Causal DAG

0packages depend

6.1Kdownloads / year

99.1%test coverage

13/13checks pass

Overview

About

Maintained by Robin DenzFirst published 2023-08-2816 releasesCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗

Simulate complex data from a given directed acyclic graph and information about each individual node. Root nodes are simply sampled from the specified distribution. Child Nodes are simulated according to one of many implemented regressions, such as logistic regression, linear regression, poisson regression or any other function. Also includes a comprehensive framework for discrete-time simulation, discrete-event simulation, and networks-based simulation which can generate even more complex longitudinal and dependent data. For more details, see Robin Denz, Nina Timmesfeld (2026) doi:10.18637/jss.v116.i02.

Install

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

install.packages("simDAG", 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("RobinDenz1/simDAG")

Development version from RobinDenz1/simDAG. 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-simdag

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-simDAG

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-simDAG

RPMs auto-built from CRAN on openSUSE OBS (Tumbleweed).

Health

CRAN checks

13OK

Slowest check: 9.3 min · r-devel-windows-x86_64

Code health

Yes

Tests · ratio 1.48

99.1%

Coverage · measured lines

100%

Documentation · exports

6

Dependencies · direct

Check history

OK2026-08-06
13 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
ERROR2026-07-18
11 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 2 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
OK2026-06-09
13 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
ERROR2026-06-07
12 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 1 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
OK2026-05-02
13 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE

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ERROR2026-04-25
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OK2026-04-04
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ERROR2026-03-28
13 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 1 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
OK2026-03-18
14 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
ERROR2026-03-10
9 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 5 ERROR · 0 FAILURE

Documentation

READMEYes · 447 wordsVignettesYes · dynamicpkgdown siteNoNEWSYes · 100% structuredCode of conductNoContributing guideNo

Examples that run: 100%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 100%
References docs: 28%

Downloads

6.1K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #6,201 · ~17/day · ~511/mo

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Repository

GitHub ↗ robindenz1/simdag

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16Releases

278Commits

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cran-comments.md

Docs source (1)

README.Rmd

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Dependencies

Declared dependencies

18 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Depends (0)

none

Imports (6)

data.table Rfast rlang igraph dagitty ggdag

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (16)

knitr rmarkdown testthat vdiffr ggplot2 ggforceMASScovr foreach doSNOW doRNGparallelutilssimr rsurvsurvival

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Code & Tests

People & History

People (2)

Maintainer (1)

Robin Denz

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Authors (2)

Robin Denz

Author, Maintainer

Katharina Meiszl

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Package Timeline

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Package metadata

First published: 2023-08-28
Total releases: 16 / 3 yrs
License: GPL (>= 3) OSI
Download size: 1.7 MB
Installed size: not tracked yet
With dependencies: not tracked yet

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citation("simDAG")

Format

Denz, R., & Meiszl, K. (2026). simDAG: Simulate Data from a (Time-Dependent) Causal DAG (Version 1.0.1) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.simDAG

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Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for simDAG version 1.0.1 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-08-18. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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