tpc

1.0

Tiered PC Algorithm

0packages depend

2.5Kdownloads / year

–test coverage

11/13checks pass

Overview

About

Maintained by Ronja ForaitaFirst published 2023-02-201 releasesCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗

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.

bspm (used by r2u) also needs make: sudo apt install make

Health

CRAN checks

2NOTE11OK

Failing flavors

NOTE r-devel-linux-x86_64-debian-clang
NOTE r-devel-linux-x86_64-debian-gcc

Slowest check: 1.8 min · r-devel-linux-x86_64-fedora-clang

Code health

Yes

Tests · ratio 0.03

not tracked

Coverage

100%

Documentation · exports

Dependencies · direct

Check history

NOTE2026-03-10
12 OK · 2 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE

Documentation

READMEYes · 365 wordsVignettesNopkgdown siteNoNEWSNoCode of conductNoContributing guideNo

Examples that run: 100%
Documented parameters: 94%
Return-value docs: 100%
References docs: 55%

Downloads

2.5K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #16,141 · ~7/day · ~208/mo

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Repository

GitHub ↗ bips-hb/tpc

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causal-discoverycohort-analysisgraphical-modelsr-package

License GPL-3.0 · 70 commits · Last activity 2025-04-15 · 0% stars, 30d

Stars over time

2024-12-19 · 52026-07-07 · 8

Repository practices

Upstream repositoryBeta

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

Checks run against github.com/bips-hb/tpc on 2026-08-02.

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Dependencies

Declared dependencies

4 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Depends (2)

R >= 3.5.0pcalg

Imports (5)

graphgraphicsmethodsparallelutils

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (2)

Rgraphviz testthat

Enhances (0)

none

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Reverse dependencies

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Nothing depends on this yet.

Code & Tests

Datasets

People & History

People (3)

Maintainer (1)

Ronja Foraita

Maintainer, Contributor

Authors (1)

Janine Witte

Author

Contributors (1)

Ronja Foraita

Maintainer, Contributor

Funders (1)

DFG

Funder

Package Timeline

1 release. R releases are shown for context.

R
R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
1.0Latest
2026-03-10 · current release
R
R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11

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
Installed size: not tracked yet
With dependencies: not tracked yet

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