R Observatory: Metrics for weightedGCM version 0.1.2

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

weightedGCM

0.1.2Package record

Weighted Generalised Covariance Measure Conditional Independence Test

0packages depend

2.9Kdownloads / year

97.8%test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Cyrill ScheideggerCRAN page ↗

A conditional independence test that can be applied both to univariate and multivariate random variables. The test is based on a weighted form of the sample covariance of the residuals after a nonlinear regression on the conditioning variables. Details are described in Scheidegger, Hoerrmann and Buehlmann (2022) "The Weighted Generalised Covariance Measure" http://jmlr.org/papers/v23/21-1328.html. The test is a generalisation of the Generalised Covariance Measure (GCM) implemented in the R package 'GeneralisedCovarianceMeasure' by Jonas Peters and Rajen D. Shah based on Shah and Peters (2020) "The Hardness of Conditional Independence Testing and the Generalised Covariance Measure" doi:10.1214/19-AOS1857.

Changes in 0.1.2

Change the maintainer email address to a permanent personal address, as the

university address will expire.

From NEWS.md in the release

Install

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

install.packages("weightedGCM", 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-weightedgcm

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-weightedGCM

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-weightedGCM

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
OK13 OK2026-06-08
WARNING12 OK, 1 WARNING2026-06-07
OK14 OK2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 0.1.2

READMEYes · 164 wordsVignettesNoNEWSYes · 100% structured · mentions 0.1.2Citation fileNoWebsitenot declared in DESCRIPTION

Help pages: 2
Examples that run: 100%2 run in a plain check
Exported functions with examples: 100%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 100%
Help pages citing references: 100%

How these are measured

Downloads

2.9K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #14,752 · ~8/day · ~242/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

35530 days

80090 days

2.9K1 year

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How downloads are counted

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

2 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing weightedGCM adds 3 packages (3 with compiled code, 8.2 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: data.table 5.7 MB, xgboost 1.5 MB, jsonlite 1.0 MB.

Depends (0)

none

Imports (4)

methodsmgcvstatsxgboost

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (1)

testthat

Enhances (0)

none

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Reverse dependencies

0direct

0indirect

Nothing depends on this yet.

How these are counted

Code & Tests

People & History

People (5)

Cyrill Scheidegger

Jonas Peters

Contributor, Copyright holder

Parts of the code are inspired by similar functions from the R package 'GeneralisedCovarianceMeasure' by Jonas Peters…

Rajen D. Shah

Contributor, Copyright holder

Parts of the code are inspired by similar functions from the R package 'GeneralisedCovarianceMeasure' by Jonas Peters…

Peter Buehlmann

Thesis advisor

Julia Hoerrmann

Thesis advisor

Releases (3)

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Package metadata

First published: 2021-11-29
Total releases: 3 / 5 yrs
License: GPL-2 OSI
Download size: 7.1 KB

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("weightedGCM")

Format

Scheidegger, C., Buehlmann, P., Hoerrmann, J., Peters, J., & Shah, R. D. (2026). weightedGCM: Weighted Generalised Covariance Measure Conditional Independence Test (Version 0.1.2) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.weightedGCM

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

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Format

APA

Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for weightedGCM version 0.1.2 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-18. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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