R Observatory: Metrics for txshift version 0.3.8

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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txshift

0.3.8Package record

Efficient Estimation of the Causal Effects of Stochastic Interventions

0packages depend

2.9Kdownloads / year

60.8%test coverage

0/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Nima HejaziCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Issues ↗

Efficient estimation of the population-level causal effects of stochastic interventions on a continuous-valued exposure. Both one-step and targeted minimum loss estimators are implemented for the counterfactual mean value of an outcome of interest under an additive modified treatment policy, a stochastic intervention that may depend on the natural value of the exposure. To accommodate settings with outcome-dependent two-phase sampling, procedures incorporating inverse probability of censoring weighting are provided to facilitate the construction of inefficient and efficient one-step and targeted minimum loss estimators. The causal parameter and its estimation were first described by Díaz and van der Laan (2013) doi:10.1111/j.1541-0420.2011.01685.x, while the multiply robust estimation procedure and its application to data from two-phase sampling designs is detailed in NS Hejazi, MJ van der Laan, HE Janes, PB Gilbert, and DC Benkeser (2020) doi:10.1111/biom.13375. The software package implementation is described in NS Hejazi and DC Benkeser (2020) doi:10.21105/joss.02447. Estimation of nuisance parameters may be enhanced through the Super Learner ensemble model in 'sl3', available for download from GitHub using 'remotes::install_github("tlverse/sl3")'.

Install

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

install.packages("txshift", 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("nhejazi/txshift")

Development version from nhejazi/txshift. 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-txshift

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-txshift

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-txshift

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

13NOTE

Check messages

NOTERd filesr-devel-linux-x86_64-debian-clang, r-devel-linux-x86_64-debian-gcc, r-devel-linux-x86_64-fedora-clang, r-devel-linux-x86_64-fedora-gcc, r-devel-windows-x86_64, r-oldrel-macos-arm64, r-oldrel-macos-x86_64, r-oldrel-windows-x86_64, r-patched-linux-x86_64, r-release-linux-x86_64, r-release-macos-arm64, r-release-macos-x86_64, r-release-windows-x86_64

checkRd: (-1) est_g_exp.Rd:55: Lost braces; missing escapes or markup?
    55 |  {A - delta}, {A + delta}, and {A + 2 * delta}).
       |  ^
checkRd: (-1) est_g_exp.Rd:55: Lost braces; missing escapes or markup?
    55 |  {A - delta}, {A + delta}, and {A + 2 * delta}).
       |               ^
checkRd: (-1) est_g_exp.Rd:55: Lost braces; missing escapes or markup?
    55 |  {A - delta}, {A + delta}, and {A + 2 * delta}).
       |                                ^

CRAN check page ↗

Slowest check: 4.4 min · r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

Status changes

NOTE13 NOTENow
NOTE14 NOTE2026-03-10

Advisories

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Documentation

In release 0.3.8

READMEYes · 1,169 wordsVignettesYes · 1 · dynamicNEWSYes · 100% structured · does not mention 0.3.8Citation fileYes · cites a publication

Cites a JOSS paper

Help pages: 21
Examples that run: 100%6 run in a plain check
Exported functions with examples: 100%
Documented parameters: 68%
Return-value docs: 100%
Help pages citing references: 0% with a bibliography file

Vignettes (1)

Evaluating Causal Effects of Modified Treatment Policies HTML

How these are measured

Downloads

2.9K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #11,647 · ~8/day · ~242/mo

Releases R versions

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49230 days

90790 days

2.9K1 year

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How downloads are counted

Repository

nhejazi/txshift ↗Account: nhejazi

14Stars

5Forks

2Open issues

1Open PRs

3Releases

402Commits

3Commit identities

causal-inferencetargeted-learningmachine-learningstochastic-interventionstreatment-effectsvariable-importancecensored-datacausal-effects

402 commits · Last activity 2024-09-21 · 0% stars, 30d · Default branch at 0.3.9, ahead of CRAN 0.3.8 (checked 2026-10-11)

Responsiveness

How these are sampled

PRs merged (all time): 95%
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed issues: 10
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed PRs: 0

Stars over time

2024-11-18 · 132026-07-07 · 14

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

11 development-tooling and community-health practices detected across 7 families in the upstream repository

Checks run against github.com/nhejazi/txshift on 2026-10-11.

Continuous integration (2)

GitHub ActionsR CMD check workflow

The R CMD check workflow runs on Linux, macOS and Windows

Governance and community (1)

Contributing guide

Docs source (3)

README.Rmdpkgdown

GitHub Pages site last deployed 2024-09-21

Coverage (1)

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Reproducibility and dev environment (1)

Makefile

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RStudio project

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Dependencies

Declared dependencies

21 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing txshift adds 51 packages (23 with compiled code, 45 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: stringi 11 MB, ggplot2 6.0 MB, data.table 5.7 MB.

Depends (1)

R >= 3.2.0

Imports (12)

statsstringr data.table assertthat mvtnorm hal9001 (>= 0.4.1)haldensify lspline ggplot2 scales latex2exp Rdpack

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none

Suggests (10)

testthat knitr rmarkdown covr future future.apply origami ranger Rsolnp nnls

Enhances (0)

none

Dependencies facing archival

CRAN will archive these unless their check problems are fixed by the date shown. This package needs each one to install.

hal9001fix by Oct 29

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Package metadata

First published: 2020-09-25
Total releases: 5 / 6 yrs
License: MIT + file LICENSE OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 3.2.0
Download size: 70 KB

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Format

APA

Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for txshift version 0.3.8 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-17. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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