cna

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Causal Modeling with Coincidence Analysis

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Overview

About

Maintained by Mathias AmbuehlFirst published 2014-05-1227 releasesCRAN page ↗

Provides comprehensive functionalities for causal modeling with Coincidence Analysis (CNA), which is a configurational comparative method of causal data analysis that was first introduced in Baumgartner (2009) doi:10.1177/0049124109339369, and generalized in Baumgartner & Ambuehl (2020) doi:10.1017/psrm.2018.45. CNA is designed to recover INUS-causation from data, which is particularly relevant for analyzing processes featuring conjunctural causation (component causation) and equifinality (alternative causation). CNA is currently the only method for INUS-discovery that allows for multiple effects (outcomes/endogenous factors), meaning it can analyze common-cause and causal chain structures. Moreover, as of version 4.0, it is the only method of its kind that provides measures for model evaluation and selection that are custom-made for the problem of INUS-discovery.

Install

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

install.packages("cna", 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-cna

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-cna

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-cna

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

Health

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Documentation

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Examples that run: 100%
Documented parameters: 89%
Return-value docs: 83%
References docs: 33%

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Dependencies

Declared dependencies

7 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Depends (1)

R >= 4.1.0

Imports (6)

RcpputilsstatsMatrixmatrixStats car

LinkingTo (1)

Rcpp

Suggests (3)

dplyr frscore causalHyperGraph

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

3direct

0indirect

cnaOpt frscore causalHyperGraph

Code & Tests

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People & History

People (5)

Maintainer (1)

Mathias Ambuehl

Author, Maintainer, Copyright holder

Authors (2)

Mathias Ambuehl

Author, Maintainer, Copyright holder

Michael Baumgartner

Author, Copyright holder · added in 1.0-0

Contributors (3)

Ruedi Epple

Contributor · added in 1.0-0

Veli-Pekka Parkkinen

Contributor · added in 2.2.0

Alrik Thiem

Contributor · added in 1.0-0

Mathias Ambuehl

Author, Maintainer, Copyright holder

Michael Baumgartner

Author, Copyright holder · added in 1.0-0

Listed in earlier versions (3)

Ambuehl

no longer listed · 1.0-0 to 1.0-3

Alexis Kauffmann

no longer listed · 1.0-0 to 1.0-3

Mathias

no longer listed · 1.0-0 to 1.0-3

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Package metadata

First published: 2014-05-12
Total releases: 27 / 12 yrs
License: GPL (>= 2) OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 4.1.0
Bundled data: 26 KB / 11 files
Download size: 942 KB
Installed size: not tracked yet
With dependencies: not tracked yet

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