R Observatory: Metrics for texteffect version 0.3

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

This package was removed from CRAN on 2026-05-06. Its history is shown below.

Reason: email to the maintainer is undeliverable

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texteffect

0.3Package record

Discovering Latent Treatments in Text Corpora and Estimating Their Causal Effects

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2.1Kdownloads / year

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Overview

About

Maintained by Christian FongCRAN page ↗

Implements the approach described in Fong and Grimmer (2016) https://aclweb.org/anthology/P/P16/P16-1151.pdf for automatically discovering latent treatments from a corpus and estimating the average marginal component effect (AMCE) of each treatment. The data is divided into a training and test set. The supervised Indian Buffet Process (sibp) is used to discover latent treatments in the training set. The fitted model is then applied to the test set to infer the values of the latent treatments in the test set. Finally, Y is regressed on the latent treatments in the test set to estimate the causal effect of each treatment.

Install

R (source archive)

url <- "https://cran.r-project.org/src/contrib/Archive/texteffect/texteffect_0.3.tar.gz"
pkgFile <- "texteffect_0.3.tar.gz"
download.file(url, pkgFile)
install.packages(pkgFile, type = "source", repos = NULL)

This package is no longer on CRAN, so install.packages() cannot fetch it by name. This downloads the last archived source (0.3) and builds it locally. Install its dependencies first, and note that building from source needs the usual compiler toolchain.

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Documentation

In release 0.3

READMENoVignettesNoNEWSNoCitation fileNoWebsitenot declared in DESCRIPTION

Help pages: 7
Examples that run: 100%6 run in a plain check
Exported functions with examples: 100%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 100%
Help pages citing references: 100%

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2.1K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #25,626 · ~6/day · ~171/mo

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R >= 3.3MASSbootggplot2

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People (1)

Christian Fong

Contributor

Maintainer since 0.1 (2017)

Releases (3)

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R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
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R 3.6.0 released · 2019-04-26
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R 3.4.0 released · 2017-04-21

Package metadata

First published: 2017-11-27
Total releases: 3 / 9 yrs
License: GPL (>= 2) OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 3.3
Bundled data: 7.1 KB / 1 file
Download size: 19 KB

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("texteffect")

Format

Fong, C. (n.d.). texteffect: Discovering Latent Treatments in Text Corpora and Estimating Their Causal Effects (Version 0.3) [Computer software]. Retrieved October 19, 2026, from https://CRAN.R-project.org/package=texteffect

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APA

Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for texteffect version 0.3 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-18. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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