DAGassist

0.2.8

Test Robustness with Directed Acyclic Graphs

0packages depend

2.3Kdownloads / year

15.0%test coverage

13/13checks pass

Overview

About

Maintained by Graham GoffFirst published 2025-09-213 releasesCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗

Provides robustness checks to align estimands with the identification that they require. Given a 'dagitty' object and a model specification, 'DAGassist' classifies variables by causal roles, recovers a target estimand, and generates a report comparing the original model with DAG-derived adjustment sets. Exports publication-grade reports in 'LaTeX', 'Word', 'Excel', 'dotwhisker', or plain text/'markdown'. 'DAGassist' is built on 'dagitty', an 'R' package that uses the 'DAGitty' web tool (https://dagitty.net/) for creating and analyzing DAGs. Methods draw on Pearl (2009) doi:10.1017/CBO9780511803161 and Textor et al. (2016) doi:10.1093/ije/dyw341.

Install

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

install.packages("DAGassist", 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("grahamgoff/DAGassist")

Development version from grahamgoff/DAGassist. 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-dagassist

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

# 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-DAGassist

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-DAGassist

RPMs auto-built from CRAN on openSUSE OBS (Tumbleweed).

Health

CRAN checks

13OK

Slowest check: 2.8 min · r-oldrel-macos-x86_64

Code health

Yes

Tests · ratio 0.05

15.0%

Coverage · measured lines

75%

Documentation · exports

Dependencies · direct

Check history

OK2026-06-09
13 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
ERROR2026-06-08
12 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 1 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
OK2026-05-11
13 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
WARNING2026-05-10
12 OK · 0 NOTE · 1 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
OK2026-03-10
14 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE

Documentation

READMEYes · 166 wordsVignettesYes · dynamicpkgdown siteNoNEWSYes · 100% structuredCode of conductNoContributing guideNo

Examples that run: 100%
Documented parameters: 99%
Return-value docs: 100%
References docs: 0%

Downloads

2.3K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #16,715 · ~6/day · ~193/mo

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Repository

GitHub ↗ grahamgoff/dagassist

2Stars

0Forks

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0Open PRs

10Releases

385Commits

1Contributors

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License GPL-3.0 · 385 commits · Last activity 2026-07-07 · 0% stars, 30d

Stars over time

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Repository practices

Upstream repositoryBeta

5 development-tooling and community-health practices detected across 4 families in the upstream repository

Checks run against github.com/grahamgoff/dagassist on 2026-07-19.

Continuous integration (1)

GitHub Actions

CRAN release process (2)

cran-comments.mdCRAN-SUBMISSION

Docs source (1)

README.Rmd

Git structural (1)

.gitattributes

How this is detected·Detection ruleset v1 (2026-07-18)

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

22 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Depends (1)

R >= 3.5

Imports (12)

broom cli crayon dagitty magrittrstatstoolsutilswritexl dplyr ggplot2 dotwhisker

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (13)

devtools fixest ggdag knitr modelsummary rmarkdown testthat tidyverse DiagrammeR marginaleffects WeightIt DirectEffects lme4

Enhances (0)

none

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Reverse dependencies

0direct

0indirect

Nothing depends on this yet.

Code & Tests

Code Composition

R 6,224 (80%)Vignettes 969 (12%)Rd 460 (6%)Other 150 (2%)

Code characteristics

Object systems

S38

Cyclomatic complexity: 4.0 median / 92 max
Test cases: 12 / 0.05 per code line

Test coverage

Line coverage

15%

Expression

13.9%

Tests / Examples

15.0% / 17% ex

Functions

107 3 exported

Complexity

9.3 avg / 92 max

Call network

107 nodes / 137 edges

Call graph

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Lowest coverage

107 functions

Function	Cyclo	Coverage
.allow_ansi	5	0%
.build_minimal_formula	3	0%
.build_models_df	18	0%
.build_modelsummary_pretty_df	15	0%
.build_named_mods	10	0%
.check_stage2_match	2	0%

People & History

People (2)

Maintainer (1)

Graham Goff

Author, Maintainer

Authors (2)

Graham Goff

Author, Maintainer

Michael Denly

Author

Package Timeline

3 releases. Pick two to compare their code metrics. R releases are shown for context.

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R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
0.2.8Latest
2026-02-20 · current release · diff ↗
0.2.7
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0.2.4
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R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11

Package metadata

First published: 2025-09-21
Total releases: 3 / 1 yrs
License: GPL (>= 2) OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 3.5
Download size: 898 KB
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