polle

1.6.4

Policy Learning

1packages depend

20.5Kdownloads / year

85.7%test coverage

13/13checks pass

Overview

About

Maintained by Andreas NordlandFirst published 2022-10-3111 releasesCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗

Package for learning and evaluating (subgroup) policies via doubly robust loss functions. Policy learning methods include doubly robust blip/conditional average treatment effect learning and sequential policy tree learning. Methods for (subgroup) policy evaluation include doubly robust cross-fitting and online estimation/sequential validation. See Nordland and Holst (2026) doi:10.18637/jss.v116.i04 for documentation and references.

Install

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

install.packages("polle", 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("AndreasNordland/polle")

Development version from AndreasNordland/polle. 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-polle

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-polle

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-polle

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

Health

CRAN checks

13OK

Slowest check: 15.3 min · r-devel-linux-x86_64-fedora-clang

Code health

Yes

Tests · ratio 1.02

85.7%

Coverage · measured lines

100%

Documentation · exports

Dependencies · direct

Check history

OK2026-06-09
13 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
ERROR2026-06-07
12 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 1 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
OK2026-03-10
14 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE

Documentation

READMEYes · 86 wordsVignettesYes · dynamicpkgdown siteNoNEWSYes · 100% structuredCode of conductNoContributing guideNo

Examples that run: 100%
Documented parameters: 92%
Return-value docs: 95%
References docs: 6%

Downloads

20.5K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #2,543 · ~56/day · ~1.7K/mo

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Repository

GitHub ↗ andreasnordland/polle

6Stars

3Forks

5Open issues

1Open PRs

0Releases

655Commits

5Contributors

655 commits · Last activity 2026-07-08 · 0% stars, 30d

Stars over time

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Repository practices

Upstream repositoryBeta

4 development-tooling and community-health practices detected across 4 families in the upstream repository

Checks run against github.com/andreasnordland/polle on 2026-07-19.

Continuous integration (1)

GitHub Actions

Reproducibility and dev environment (1)

Makefile

Docs source (1)

README.Rmd

Lint, format, editor (1)

RStudio project

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

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

17 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Depends (2)

R >= 4.1SuperLearner

Imports (9)

data.table lava future.apply progressrmethodspolicytreesurvivaltargeted DynTxRegime

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (10)

DTRlearn2 glmnet metsmgcvxgboost knitr ranger rmarkdown testthat ggplot2

Enhances (0)

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Reverse dependencies

1direct

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targeted

Code & Tests

People & History

People (2)

Maintainer (1)

Andreas Nordland

Author, Maintainer

Authors (2)

Andreas Nordland

Author, Maintainer

Klaus Holst

Author

Package Timeline

11 releases. Pick two to compare their code metrics. R releases are shown for context.

1.6.4Latest
2026-05-18 · current release · diff ↗
1.6.3
2026-05-05 · diff ↗
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R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
1.6.2
2025-12-04 · diff ↗
1.6.1
2025-12-01 · diff ↗
1.6.0
2025-10-30 · diff ↗
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R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11
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2024-04-25 · diff ↗
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R 4.4.0 released · 2024-04-24
1.3
2023-07-06 · diff ↗
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R 4.3.0 released · 2023-04-21
1.2
2023-02-07 · diff ↗
1.0
2022-12-06 · diff ↗
0.1
2022-10-31
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R 4.2.0 released · 2022-04-22

Package metadata

First published: 2022-10-31
Total releases: 11 / 4 yrs
License: Apache License (>= 2)
Minimum R: ≥ 4.1
Download size: 403 KB
Installed size: not tracked yet
With dependencies: not tracked yet

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