dosearch

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Causal Effect Identification from Multiple Incomplete Data Sources

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Overview

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Maintained by Santtu TikkaFirst published 2019-02-0111 releasesCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗

Identification of causal effects from arbitrary observational and experimental probability distributions via do-calculus and standard probability manipulations using a search-based algorithm by Tikka, Hyttinen and Karvanen (2021) doi:10.18637/jss.v099.i05. Allows for the presence of mechanisms related to selection bias (Bareinboim and Tian, 2015) doi:10.1609/aaai.v29i1.9679, transportability (Bareinboim and Pearl, 2014) http://ftp.cs.ucla.edu/pub/stat_ser/r443.pdf, missing data (Mohan, Pearl, and Tian, 2013) http://ftp.cs.ucla.edu/pub/stat_ser/r410.pdf) and arbitrary combinations of these. Also supports identification in the presence of context-specific independence (CSI) relations through labeled directed acyclic graphs (LDAG). For details on CSIs see (Corander et al., 2019) doi:10.1016/j.apal.2019.04.004.

Install

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

install.packages("dosearch", 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("santikka/dosearch")

Development version from santikka/dosearch. 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-dosearch

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-dosearch

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-dosearch

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

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Tests · ratio 0.56

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Documentation

READMENoVignettesYes · dynamicpkgdown siteNoNEWSYes · 100% structuredCode of conductNoContributing guideNo

Examples that run: 100%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 100%
References docs: 50%

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Repository

GitHub ↗ santikka/dosearch

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Antti Hyttinen

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Juha Karvanen

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Package metadata

First published: 2019-02-01
Total releases: 11 / 7 yrs
License: GPL (>= 3) OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 4.0
Bundled data: 20 KB / 1 file
Download size: 322 KB
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