R Observatory: Metrics for simDAG version 1.0.1

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

simDAG

1.0.1Package record

Simulate Data from a (Time-Dependent) Causal DAG

0packages depend

5.9Kdownloads / year

99.1%test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Robin DenzCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Website ↗Issues ↗

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.

Changes in 1.0.1

Bug Fixes

Temporary fix for a bug caused by changes in lme4, which in turn caused a bug in the simr package. Installing simr from github already fixes the issue, so this update was made solely to retain simDAG on CRAN.

From NEWS.md in the release

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. 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-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). 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: 8.6 min · r-oldrel-macos-x86_64

Status changes

OK13 OK2026-08-06
ERROR11 OK, 2 ERROR2026-07-18
OK13 OK2026-06-09
ERROR12 OK, 1 ERROR2026-06-07
OK13 OK2026-05-02

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ERROR11 OK, 1 ERROR2026-04-25
OK14 OK2026-04-04
ERROR13 OK, 1 ERROR2026-03-28
OK14 OK2026-03-18
ERROR9 OK, 5 ERROR2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 1.0.1

READMEYes · 447 wordsVignettesYes · 9 · dynamicNEWSYes · 100% structured · mentions 1.0.1Citation fileYes · cites a publicationWebsiteYes · pkgdown

Cites a JSS article

Help pages: 43includes a package overview page
Examples that run: 100%42 run in a plain check
Exported functions with examples: 100%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 100%
Help pages citing references: 28%

Vignettes (9)

How these are measured

Downloads

5.9K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #8,471 · ~16/day · ~495/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

39730 days

1.1K90 days

5.9K1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on135 r2u5 autocran

How downloads are counted

Repository

robindenz1/simdag ↗Account: RobinDenz1

19Stars

1Forks

0Open issues

0Open PRs

16Releases

284Commits

3Commit identities

causal-inferencedirected-acyclic-graphsimulation

License file reads as GPL-3.0 · 284 commits · Last activity 2026-10-15 · 0% stars, 30d · Default branch at 1.0.1.9000, ahead of CRAN 1.0.1 (checked 2026-10-22)

Responsiveness

How these are sampled

PRs merged (all time): not measured
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed issues: 2
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed PRs: not measured

Stars over time

2025-10-14 · 152026-07-07 · 19

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

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

Checks run against github.com/robindenz1/simdag on 2026-10-22.

Continuous integration (2)

GitHub ActionsR CMD check workflow

The R CMD check workflow runs on Linux

Docs source (4)

README.Rmdpkgdown

GitHub Pages site last deployed 2026-10-15 · The repository has a site deploy workflow

pkgdown site last built 2026-10-15

Coverage (1)

Coverage reporting (Codecov)

CRAN release process (1)

cran-comments.md

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Research and citation (1)

codemeta.json

Lint, format, editor (1)

RStudio project

How this is detected·Detection ruleset v4 (2026-10-20)

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

18 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing simDAG adds 56 packages (36 with compiled code, 59 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: stringi 11 MB, ggplot2 6.0 MB, data.table 5.7 MB.

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

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

0direct

0indirect

Nothing depends on this yet.

How these are counted

Code & Tests

People & History

People (2)

Robin Denz

Author, Maintainer since 0.1.0 (2023)

Katharina Meiszl

Author

Releases (16)

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1.0.1Latest
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2026-07-31 · current release · diff ↗
1.0.0
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2026-05-14 · diff ↗
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R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
0.5.2
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2026-03-30 · diff ↗
0.5.1
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2026-03-10 · diff ↗ ·
added 1 export
node_polr
0.5.0
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2026-01-08 · diff ↗ ·
added 5 exports
node_aalen, node_next_time, rsample, rtexp, sim_discrete_event
0.4.1
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2025-10-15 · diff ↗
0.4.0
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2025-08-27 · diff ↗ ·
added 3 exports
net, network, network_td
0.3.2
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2025-05-28 · diff ↗
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R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11
0.3.0
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2025-03-30 · diff ↗ ·
added 7 exports
node_aftreg, node_ahreg, node_ehreg, node_mixture, node_poreg, node_ypreg, node_zeroinfl
0.2.2
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2025-02-23 · diff ↗
0.2.1
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2025-01-07 · diff ↗ ·
added 1 export
node_identity
0.2.0
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2024-09-03 · diff ↗
0.1.2
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2024-06-13 · diff ↗

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R 4.4.0 released · 2024-04-24
0.1.1
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2024-03-07 · diff ↗ ·
added 1 export
sim_n_datasets
0.1.0
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2023-08-28
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R 4.3.0 released · 2023-04-21

Package metadata

First published: 2023-08-28
Total releases: 16 / 3 yrs
License: GPL (>= 3) OSI
Download size: 1.7 MB

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' entry:

citation("simDAG")

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

It points to 10.18637/jss.v116.i02.

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 simDAG version 1.0.1 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-23. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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