R Observatory: Metrics for CausalGPS version 0.5.1

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

CausalGPS

0.5.1Package record

Matching on Generalized Propensity Scores with Continuous Exposures

0packages depend

6.8Kdownloads / year

68.7%test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Naeem KhoshnevisCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Issues ↗

Provides a framework for estimating causal effects of a continuous exposure using observational data, and implementing matching and weighting on the generalized propensity score. Wu, X., Mealli, F., Kioumourtzoglou, M.A., Dominici, F. and Braun, D., 2022. Matching on generalized propensity scores with continuous exposures. Journal of the American Statistical Association, pp.1-29.

Changes in 0.5.1

Removed

Strict tests.

From NEWS.md in the release

Install

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

install.packages("CausalGPS", 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("NSAPH-Software/CausalGPS")

Development version from NSAPH-Software/CausalGPS. 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-causalgps

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-CausalGPS

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-CausalGPS

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: 4.9 min · r-devel-windows-x86_64

Status changes

OK13 OK2026-10-25
ERROR12 OK, 1 ERROR2026-10-24
OK13 OK2026-08-05
NOTE12 OK, 1 NOTE2026-08-01
OK13 OK2026-06-09

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ERROR12 OK, 1 ERROR2026-06-08
OK13 OK2026-05-02
ERROR11 OK, 1 ERROR2026-04-25
OK14 OK2026-04-22
ERROR13 OK, 1 ERROR2026-04-18
OK14 OK2026-03-30
ERROR13 OK, 1 ERROR2026-03-28
OK14 OK2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 0.5.1

READMEYes · 650 wordsVignettesYes · 10 · dynamicNEWSYes · 100% structured · mentions 0.5.1Citation fileYes · software entry only

Help pages: 57 (31 internal)includes a package overview page
Examples that run: 55%6 run in a plain check · 5 only when donttest examples are enabled (R CMD check --as-cran)
Exported functions with examples: 92%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 100%
Help pages citing references: 4%

Vignettes (10)

How these are measured

Downloads

6.8K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #5,816 · ~19/day · ~568/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

52130 days

1.4K90 days

6.8K1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on401 r2u16 autocran97 c2d4u

How downloads are counted

Repository

nsaph-software/causalgps ↗Organization: NSAPH-SoftwareFork of NSAPH/GPSmatching

27Stars

7Forks

6Open issues

0Open PRs

15Releases

708Commits

7Commit identities

708 commits · Last activity 2026-01-12 · 0% stars, 30d · Discussions: 24 posts

Responsiveness

How these are sampled

PRs merged (all time): 88%
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed issues: 80
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed PRs: 0

Stars over time

2025-04-29 · 252026-07-07 · 27

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

9 development-tooling and community-health practices detected across 6 families in the upstream repository

Checks run against github.com/nsaph-software/causalgps on 2026-10-22.

Continuous integration (2)

GitHub ActionsR CMD check workflow

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

Governance and community (1)

Code of conduct

Docs source (2)

pkgdown

GitHub Pages site last deployed 2024-06-19

Coverage (2)

Coverage reporting.covrignore

Show all practicesHide 2 practices

CRAN release process (1)

cran-comments.md

Lint, format, editor (1)

RStudio project

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

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

22 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing CausalGPS adds 94 packages (54 with compiled code, 66 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: stringi 11 MB, ggplot2 6.0 MB, data.table 5.7 MB.

Depends (1)

R >= 3.5.0

Imports (18)

paralleldata.table SuperLearner xgboost gamMASSpolycor wCorrstatsggplot2 rlang logger Rcpp gnm locpol EcumeKernSmoothcowplot

LinkingTo (1)

Rcpp

Suggests (7)

covr knitr rmarkdown ranger earth testthat gridExtra

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)

Naeem Khoshnevis

Author, Maintainer since 0.2.5 (2021)

Kempner

Danielle Braun

Author

HSPH

Xiao Wu

Author

CUMC

Releases (12)

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R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
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Package metadata

First published: 2021-07-23
Total releases: 12 / 5 yrs
License: GPL-3 OSI
Copyright: Harvard University
Minimum R: ≥ 3.5.0
Bundled data: 660 KB / 1 file
Download size: 2.6 MB

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Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' entry:

citation("CausalGPS")

The package provides a citation file, so citation() returns the authors' own entry.

It points to 10.48550/arxiv.2310.00561.

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 CausalGPS version 0.5.1 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-25. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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