dagitty

0.3-4

Graphical Analysis of Structural Causal Models

21packages depend

696Kdownloads / year

44.8%test coverage

11/13checks pass

Overview

About

Maintained by Johannes TextorFirst published 2016-03-236 releasesCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗

A port of the web-based software 'DAGitty', available at https://dagitty.net, for analyzing structural causal models (also known as directed acyclic graphs or DAGs). This package computes covariate adjustment sets for estimating causal effects, enumerates instrumental variables, derives testable implications (d-separation and vanishing tetrads), generates equivalent models, and includes a simple facility for data simulation.

Install

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

install.packages("dagitty", 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("jtextor/dagitty")

Development version from jtextor/dagitty. 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-dagitty

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-dagitty

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-dagitty

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

Health

CRAN checks

2NOTE11OK

Failing flavors

NOTE r-devel-linux-x86_64-debian-clang
NOTE r-devel-linux-x86_64-debian-gcc

Slowest check: 1.9 min · r-release-macos-x86_64

Code health

Yes

Tests · ratio 0.07

44.8%

Coverage · measured lines

100%

Documentation · exports

Dependencies · direct

Check history

NOTE2026-03-10
12 OK · 2 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE

Documentation

READMENoVignettesYes · dynamicpkgdown siteNoNEWSYes · 33% structuredCode of conductNoContributing guideNo

Examples that run: 100%
Documented parameters: 99%
Return-value docs: 13%
References docs: 17%

Downloads

696K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #814 · ~1.9K/day · ~58K/mo

Releases R versions

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12.5K30 days

65.2K90 days

696K1 year

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Repository

GitHub ↗ jtextor/dagitty

347Stars

58Forks

47Open issues

5Open PRs

2Releases

259Commits

9Contributors

License GPL-2.0 · 259 commits · Last activity 2026-03-04 · +0.9% stars, 30d

Stars over time

2025-06-22 · 3112026-07-13 · 347

Repository practices

Upstream repositoryBeta

Checks run against github.com/jtextor/dagitty on 2026-07-19.

No development-tooling practices detected in the upstream repository.

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

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

11 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Depends (1)

R >= 3.0.0

Imports (9)

V8 jsonlitebootMASSmethodsgrDevicesstatsutilsgraphics

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (9)

igraph knitr base64enc testthat markdown rmarkdown lavaan CCP fastDummies

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

21direct

3indirect

DAGassist SEMgraph causalPAF dagwood dcmstan epicmodel episensr ggdag midoc simDAG theorytools CLRtools caugi cfid cia dagR dosearch mvGPS pcalg performance tidySEM

Code & Tests

Code Composition

R 3,480 (67%)Rd 1,636 (31%)Vignettes 113 (2%)

Code characteristics

Object systems

S323

Cyclomatic complexity: 1.0 median / 37 max
Test cases: 22 / 0.07 per code line

Test coverage

Line coverage

45%

Expression

46.0%

Tests / Examples

44.8% / 63% ex

Functions

122 60 exported

Complexity

2.9 avg / 37 max

Call network

122 nodes / 355 edges

Call graph

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Lowest coverage

122 functions

Function	Cyclo	Coverage
adjustedNodes<- exp	1	0%
canonicalize exp	1	0%
ciTest exp	1	0%
completeDAG exp	2	0%
convert exp	1	0%
coordinates exp	1	0%

People & History

People (0)

Author records are not tracked yet for this package.

Listed in earlier versions (3)

Johannes Textor

no longer listed · 0.1-9 to 0.3-4

Benito van der Zander

no longer listed · 0.1-9 to 0.3-4

Ankur Ankan

no longer listed · 0.3-0 to 0.3-4

Package Timeline

6 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
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R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11
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R 4.4.0 released · 2024-04-24
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R 4.3.0 released · 2023-04-21
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R 4.2.0 released · 2022-04-22
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R 4.1.0 released · 2021-05-18
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R 4.0.0 released · 2020-04-24
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R 3.6.0 released · 2019-04-26
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R 3.5.0 released · 2018-04-23
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R 3.4.0 released · 2017-04-21
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R 3.3.0 released · 2016-05-03
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2016-03-26 · diff ↗

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R 3.2.0 released · 2015-04-16

Package metadata

First published: 2016-03-23
Total releases: 6 / 10 yrs
License: GPL-2 OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 3.0.0
Download size: 186 KB
Installed size: not tracked yet
With dependencies: not tracked yet

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