paths

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An Imputation Approach to Estimating Path-Specific Causal Effects

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Overview

About

Maintained by Xiang ZhouFirst published 2020-05-063 releasesCRAN page ↗

In causal mediation analysis with multiple causally ordered mediators, a set of path-specific effects are identified under standard ignorability assumptions. This package implements an imputation approach to estimating these effects along with a set of bias formulas for conducting sensitivity analysis (Zhou and Yamamoto doi:10.31235/osf.io/2rx6p). It contains two main functions: paths() for estimating path-specific effects and sens() for conducting sensitivity analysis. Estimation uncertainty is quantified using the nonparametric bootstrap.

Install

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

install.packages("paths", 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-paths

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-paths

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-paths

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

Health

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Documentation

READMEYes · 593 wordsVignettesNopkgdown siteNoNEWSYes · 100% structuredCode of conductNoContributing guideNo

Examples that run: 100%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 100%
References docs: 56%

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Dependencies

Declared dependencies

8 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Depends (1)

R >= 4.5.0

Imports (8)

BARTbootgbm ggplot2 metRstatstwang tidyr

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knitr rmarkdown

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Code & Tests

Code Composition

R 1,207 (63%)Rd 715 (37%)

Code characteristics

Object systems

S310

Cyclomatic complexity: 2.0 median / 24 max

Test coverage

Line coverage

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Tests / Examples

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Functions

23 3 exported

Complexity

3.8 avg / 24 max

Call network

23 nodes / 8 edges

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Datasets

Bundled datasets · 2

Name	Class	Rows × Cols	Also ships in
tatar	data.frame	427 × 19	–
welfare	data.frame	213 × 15	–

People & History

People (3)

Maintainer (1)

Xiang Zhou

Maintainer

Authors (2)

Minh Trinh

Author

Teppei Yamamoto

Author

Package Timeline

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R 4.1.0 released · 2021-05-18
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R 4.0.0 released · 2020-04-24

Package metadata

First published: 2020-05-06
Total releases: 3 / 6 yrs
License: GPL (>= 2) OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 4.5.0
Bundled data: 3.6 KB / 2 files
Download size: 55 KB
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