R Observatory: Metrics for tpc version 1.0

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

tpc

1.0Package record

Tiered PC Algorithm

0packages depend

2.6Kdownloads / year

–test coverage

11/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Ronja ForaitaCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Issues ↗Declared funder: DFG

Constraint-based causal discovery using the PC algorithm while accounting for a partial node ordering, for example a partial temporal ordering when the data were collected in different waves of a cohort study. Andrews RM, Foraita R, Didelez V, Witte J (2021) arXiv:2108.13395 provide a guide how to use tpc to analyse cohort data.

Install

R (CRAN)pak (dev)Ubuntu (r2u)

install.packages("tpc", 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("bips-hb/tpc")

Development version from bips-hb/tpc. 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-tpc

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

Health

CRAN checks

2NOTE11OK

Check messages

NOTECRAN incoming feasibilityr-devel-linux-x86_64-debian-clang, r-devel-linux-x86_64-debian-gcc

Maintainer: ‘Ronja Foraita <foraita@leibniz-bips.de>’

The Description field contains
  <arXiv:2108.13395> provide a guide how to use tpc to analyse cohort
Please refer to arXiv e-prints via their arXiv DOI <doi:10.48550/arXiv.YYMM.NNNNN>.

CRAN check page ↗

Slowest check: 1.9 min · r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

Status changes

NOTE11 OK, 2 NOTENow
NOTE12 OK, 2 NOTE2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 1.0

READMEYes · 365 wordsVignettesNoNEWSNoCitation fileNoWebsitenot declared in DESCRIPTION

Help pages: 11 (1 internal)includes a package overview page
Examples that run: 100%3 run in a plain check
Exported functions with examples: 75%
Documented parameters: 94%
Return-value docs: 100%
Help pages citing references: 55%

How these are measured

Downloads

2.6K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #18,104 · ~7/day · ~219/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

22530 days

72390 days

2.6K1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on74 r2u

How downloads are counted

Repository

bips-hb/tpc ↗Organization: bips-hb

8Stars

1Forks

0Open issues

0Open PRs

0Releases

70Commits

3Commit identities

causal-discoverycohort-analysisgraphical-modelsr-package

License file reads as GPL-3.0 · 70 commits · Last activity 2023-02-18 · 0% stars, 30d

Responsiveness

How these are sampled

PRs merged (all time): 100%
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed issues: not measured
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed PRs: 0

Stars over time

2025-10-01 · 62026-07-07 · 8

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

1 development-tooling and community-health practice detected across 1 family in the upstream repository

Checks run against github.com/bips-hb/tpc on 2026-10-25.

Lint, format, editor (1)

RStudio project

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

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

4 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing tpc adds 27 packages (16 with compiled code, 36 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: BH 14 MB, igraph 4.8 MB, pcalg 3.9 MB. 2 more not on CRAN are not measured.

Depends (2)

R >= 3.5.0pcalg

Imports (5)

graphgraphicsmethodsparallelutils

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (2)

Rgraphviz testthat

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

0direct

0indirect

Nothing depends on this yet.

How these are counted

Code & Tests

Datasets

People & History

People (3)

Ronja Foraita

Maintainer since 1.0 (2023), Contributor

Janine Witte

Author

DFG

Funder

Releases (1)

R
R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
R
R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11
R
R 4.4.0 released · 2024-04-24
R
R 4.3.0 released · 2023-04-21
1.0Latest
record
2023-02-20 · current release
R
R 4.2.0 released · 2022-04-22

Package metadata

First published: 2023-02-20
Total releases: 1 / 3 yrs
License: GPL (>= 3) OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 3.5.0
Bundled data: 590 KB / 6 files
Download size: 620 KB

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("tpc")

Format

Foraita, R., DFG, & Witte, J. (2023). tpc: Tiered PC Algorithm (Version 1.0) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.tpc

This package has no citation file, so citation() returns this entry built from DESCRIPTION.

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 tpc version 1.0 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-26. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

From data release v2026-10-26, which the citation names so these numbers can be found later. More on citing and the projects behind them.

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