spEDM

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Spatial Empirical Dynamic Modeling

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Overview

About

Maintained by Wenbo LyuFirst published 2024-12-1613 releasesCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗

Inferring causation from spatial cross-sectional data through empirical dynamic modeling (EDM), with methodological extensions including geographical convergent cross mapping from Gao et al. (2023) doi:10.1038/s41467-023-41619-6, as well as the spatial causality test following the approach of Herrera et al. (2016) doi:10.1111/pirs.12144, together with geographical pattern causality proposed in Zhang & Wang (2025) doi:10.1080/13658816.2025.2581207.

Install

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

install.packages("spEDM", 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("stscl/spEDM")

Development version from stscl/spEDM. 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-spedm

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-spEDM

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-spEDM

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

Health

CRAN checks

13OK

Slowest check: 12.6 min · r-devel-linux-x86_64-fedora-clang

Code health

None

Tests · ratio 0.00

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Coverage

100%

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Documentation

READMEYes · 105 wordsVignettesYes · dynamicpkgdown siteNoNEWSYes · 100% structuredCode of conductNoContributing guideNo

Examples that run: 100%
Documented parameters: not tracked
Return-value docs: 100%
References docs: 71%

Downloads

4.7K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #5,005 · ~13/day · ~392/mo

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Repository

GitHub ↗ stscl/spedm

71Stars

4Forks

0Open issues

0Open PRs

13Releases

4,031Commits

1Contributors

causal-inferenceempirical-dynamic-modelinggeoinformaticsspatial-statisticsgeospatial-causalitycpprcausal-analysis

4,031 commits · Last activity 2026-07-19 · 0% stars, 30d

Stars over time

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Repository practices

Upstream repositoryBeta

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

Checks run against github.com/stscl/spedm on 2026-07-19.

Continuous integration (1)

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CRAN release process (1)

cran-comments.md

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Dependencies

Declared dependencies

15 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Depends (1)

R >= 4.1.0

Imports (6)

dplyr ggplot2methodssdsfun sf terra

LinkingTo (3)

Rcpp RcppThread RcppArmadillo

Suggests (7)

knitr Rcpp RcppThread RcppArmadillo rmarkdown readr plot3D

Enhances (0)

none

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Reverse dependencies

9direct

0indirect

GD cisp coupling gdverse geocomplexity infocausality infoxtr pc tEDM

Code & Tests

Code Composition

C++ 24,041 (68%)C 4,428 (13%)Vignettes 2,143 (6%)R 1,879 (5%)Rd 1,397 (4%)Other 1,242 (4%)

Code characteristics

Object systems

S311S4 generic1S4 method26

Cyclomatic complexity: 1.0 median / 10 max

Test coverage

Line coverage

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Expression

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Tests / Examples

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Functions

543 1 exported

Complexity

1.8 avg / 10 max

Call network

543 nodes / 656 edges

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People & History

People (1)

Maintainer (1)

Wenbo Lyu

Author, Maintainer, Copyright holder · added in 1.12

Authors (1)

Wenbo Lyu

Author, Maintainer, Copyright holder · added in 1.12

Wenbo Lyu

Author, Maintainer, Copyright holder · added in 1.12

Listed in earlier versions (1)

Wenbo Lv

no longer listed · 1.0 to 1.11

Package Timeline

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Package metadata

First published: 2024-12-16
Total releases: 13 / 2 yrs
License: GPL-3 OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 4.1.0
Download size: 2.0 MB
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