R Observatory: Metrics for tmle version 2.1.1

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

tmle

2.1.1Package record

Targeted Maximum Likelihood Estimation

3packages dependsuggested by 4

19.1Kdownloads / year

–test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Susan GruberCRAN page ↗

Targeted maximum likelihood estimation of point treatment effects (Targeted Maximum Likelihood Learning, The International Journal of Biostatistics, 2(1), 2006. This version automatically estimates the additive treatment effect among the treated (ATT) and among the controls (ATC). The tmle() function calculates the adjusted marginal difference in mean outcome associated with a binary point treatment, for continuous or binary outcomes. Relative risk and odds ratio estimates are also reported for binary outcomes. Missingness in the outcome is allowed, but not in treatment assignment or baseline covariate values. The population mean is calculated when there is missingness, and no variation in the treatment assignment. The tmleMSM() function estimates the parameters of a marginal structural model for a binary point treatment effect. Effect estimation stratified by a binary mediating variable is also available. An ID argument can be used to identify repeated measures. Default settings call 'SuperLearner' to estimate the Q and g portions of the likelihood, unless values or a user-supplied regression function are passed in as arguments.

Install

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

install.packages("tmle", repos = "https://cloud.r-project.org/")

Installs the current CRAN release. Prebuilt binaries on Windows and macOS.

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-tmle

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-tmle

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-tmle

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: 2.0 min · r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

Status changes

OK13 OK2026-08-04
NOTE12 OK, 1 NOTE2026-08-01
OK14 OK2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 2.1.1

READMENoVignettesNoNEWSYes · 0% structuredCitation fileYes · cites a publicationWebsitenot declared in DESCRIPTION

Help pages: 13includes a package overview page
Examples that run: 100%3 run in a plain check
Exported functions with examples: 27%
Documented parameters: not tracked
Return-value docs: not tracked
Help pages citing references: 23%

How these are measured

Downloads

19.1K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #3,259 · ~52/day · ~1.6K/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

1.5K30 days

3.5K90 days

19.1K1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on134 r2u4 autocran1.9K conda_forge76 c2d4u

How downloads are counted

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

6 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing tmle adds 17 packages (10 with compiled code, 19 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: data.table 5.7 MB, gplots 4.6 MB, glmnet 2.7 MB.

Depends (2)

glmnet SuperLearner

Imports (0)

none

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (4)

dbarts gam ROCR WeightedROC

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

3direct

0indirect

Depends 2 · Imports 1

Suggested by 4

Depends, Imports or LinkingTo, most downloaded first

CIMTx ctmle twoStageDesignTMLE

Suggests, most downloaded first

AIPW ltmle bartCause causaldef

How these are counted

Code & Tests

Datasets

People & History

People (3)

Susan Gruber

Author, Maintainer since 1.2.0-2 (2012)

Mark van der Laan

Author · added in 1.2.0-5

Chris Kennedy

Contractor · added in 1.4.0

Listed in earlier versions (1)

in collaboration with Mark van der Laan

no longer listed · 1.2.0-2 to 1.2.0-4

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Package metadata

First published: 2012-11-14
Total releases: 15 / 14 yrs
License: BSD_3_clause + file LICENSE | GPL-2 OSI · relicensed from BSD in 1.2.0-3
Bundled data: 4.1 KB / 1 file
Download size: 45 KB

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Causal Inference

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Run in R for the authors' entry:

citation("tmle")

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Format

APA

Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for tmle version 2.1.1 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-19. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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