ggdag

0.2.13

Analyze and Create Elegant Directed Acyclic Graphs

12packages depend

125.2Kdownloads / year

57.6%test coverage

13/13checks pass

Overview

About

Maintained by Malcolm BarrettFirst published 2018-03-2715 releasesCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗

Tidy, analyze, and plot directed acyclic graphs (DAGs). 'ggdag' is built on top of 'dagitty', an R package that uses the 'DAGitty' web tool (https://dagitty.net/) for creating and analyzing DAGs. 'ggdag' makes it easy to tidy and plot 'dagitty' objects using 'ggplot2' and 'ggraph', as well as common analytic and graphical functions, such as determining adjustment sets and node relationships.

Install

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

install.packages("ggdag", 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("r-causal/ggdag")

Development version from r-causal/ggdag. 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-ggdag

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-ggdag

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-ggdag

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

Health

CRAN checks

13OK

Slowest check: 5.8 min · r-devel-linux-x86_64-fedora-clang

Code health

Yes

Tests · ratio 1.78

57.6%

Coverage · measured lines

99%

Documentation · exports

Dependencies · direct

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ERROR2026-03-30
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ERROR2026-03-25
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Documentation

READMEYes · 157 wordsVignettesYes · dynamicpkgdown siteNoNEWSYes · 100% structuredCode of conductNoContributing guideNo

Examples that run: 100%
Documented parameters: 89%
Return-value docs: 63%
References docs: 0%

Downloads

125.2K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #1,286 · ~343/day · ~10.4K/mo

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7.3K30 days

26.8K90 days

125.2K1 year

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Repository

GitHub ↗ r-causal/ggdag

465Stars

27Forks

16Open issues

0Open PRs

15Releases

674Commits

6Contributors

rrstatscausal-inferenceggplot-extensiondag

674 commits · Last activity 2026-03-17 · +0.2% stars, 30d

Stars over time

2025-07-19 · 4452026-07-07 · 465

Repository practices

Upstream repositoryBeta

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

Checks run against github.com/r-causal/ggdag on 2026-07-19.

Continuous integration (1)

GitHub Actions

Docs source (1)

README.Rmd

Lint, format, editor (3)

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Coverage (1)

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Dependencies

Declared dependencies

21 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Depends (1)

R >= 3.4.0

Imports (14)

dagitty dplyr forcats ggplot2 ggraph (>= 2.0.0)ggrepel igraph magrittr pillar purrr rlang stringr tibble tidygraph

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (7)

covr knitr rmarkdown spelling testthat vdiffr withr

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

12direct

2indirect

causalPAF dcmstan episensr simDAG CLRtools DAGassist dagwood epicmodel mvGPS performance rixpress see

Code & Tests

Code Composition

R 5,784 (58%)Rd 3,543 (35%)Vignettes 682 (7%)Markdown 17 (0%)Other 3 (0%)

Code characteristics

Object systems

S343

Cyclomatic complexity: 1.0 median / 9 max
Test cases: 41 / 1.78 per code line

Test coverage

Line coverage

58%

Expression

60.4%

Tests / Examples

57.6% / 71% ex

Functions

186 95 exported

Complexity

2.2 avg / 9 max

Call network

186 nodes / 409 edges

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Lowest coverage

186 functions

Function	Cyclo	Coverage
collider_triangle exp	3	0%
confounder_triangle exp	3	0%
geom_dag_edges_diagonal exp	3	0%
geom_dag_node exp	1	0%
ggdag_adjacent exp	5	0%
ggdag_adjust exp	9	0%

People & History

People (1)

Maintainer (1)

Malcolm Barrett

Author, Maintainer

Authors (1)

Malcolm Barrett

Author, Maintainer

Package Timeline

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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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2019-09-12 · diff ↗
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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

Package metadata

First published: 2018-03-27
Total releases: 15 / 8 yrs
License: MIT + file LICENSE OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 3.4.0
Download size: 1.9 MB
Installed size: not tracked yet
With dependencies: not tracked yet

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