R Observatory: Metrics for twangMediation version 1.2.1

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

twangMediation

1.2.1Package record

Twang Causal Mediation Modeling via Weighting

0packages depend

3.2Kdownloads / year

–test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Dan McCaffreyCRAN page ↗

Provides functions for estimating natural direct and indirect effects for mediation analysis. It uses weighting where the weights are functions of estimates of the probability of exposure or treatment assignment (Hong, G (2010). https://cepa.stanford.edu/sites/default/files/workshops/GH_JSM%20Proceedings%202010.pdf Huber, M. (2014). doi:10.1002/jae.2341). Estimation of probabilities can use generalized boosting or logistic regression. Additional functions provide diagnostics of the model fit and weights. The vignette provides details and examples.

Changes in 1.2.1

Bug fixes

Fixed linkages in several .Rd documentation files to improve cross-references.
Updated the check of the object submitted to print.bal.table.mediation to use inherits() for more robust class validation.

From NEWS.md in the release

Install

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

install.packages("twangMediation", 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-twangmediation

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-twangMediation

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-twangMediation

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: 2.8 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 1.2.1

READMENoVignettesYes · 1 · staticNEWSYes · 67% structured · mentions 1.2.1Citation fileNoWebsitenot declared in DESCRIPTION

Help pages: 16includes a package overview page
Examples that run: 82%9 run in a plain check · 2 never run
Exported functions with examples: 100%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 100%
Help pages citing references: 0%

Vignettes (1)

twangMediation Tutorial PDF

How these are measured

Downloads

3.2K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #15,420 · ~9/day · ~268/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

28930 days

79990 days

3.2K1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on112 r2u3 autocran86 c2d4u

How downloads are counted

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

7 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing twangMediation adds 38 packages (21 with compiled code, 36 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: ggplot2 6.0 MB, data.table 5.7 MB, survey 2.3 MB.

Depends (1)

R >= 2.10

Imports (8)

twang gbm gridExtragraphicsstatslatticelatticeExtra survey

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (2)

R.rsp 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 (6)

Dan McCaffrey

Author, Maintainer since 1.0 (2021)

Author

Author

Author

Author

Author

Releases (4)

Pick two releases to compare their code metrics.

R
R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
1.2.1Latest
record
2025-11-16 · current release · diff ↗
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
1.2
record
2022-08-16 · diff ↗
R
R 4.2.0 released · 2022-04-22
1.1
record
2021-12-13 · diff ↗
1.0
record
2021-07-27
R
R 4.1.0 released · 2021-05-18

Package metadata

First published: 2021-07-27
Total releases: 4 / 5 yrs
License: GPL-3 OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 2.10
Bundled data: 520 KB / 2 files
Download size: 1.0 MB

Appears in task views

Causal Inference

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("twangMediation")

Format

McCaffrey, D., Castellano, K., Coffman, D., Schuler, M., Vegetabile, B., & Zhou, H. (2025). twangMediation: Twang Causal Mediation Modeling via Weighting (Version 1.2.1) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.twangMediation

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 twangMediation version 1.2.1 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-24. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

From data release v2026-10-24, which the citation names so these numbers can be found later. More on citing and the projects behind them.

Report a problem with this page →