causalDisco: Tools for Causal Discovery on Observational Data
Tools for causal structure learning from observational data, with emphasis on temporally
ordered variables. The package implements the Temporal Peter–Clark (TPC) algorithm
(Petersen, Osler & Ekstrøm, 2021; <doi:10.1093/aje/kwab087>), the Temporal Greedy
Equivalence Search (TGES) algorithm (Larsen, Ekstrøm & Petersen, 2025; <doi:10.48550/arXiv.2502.06232>)
and Temporal Fast Causal Inference (TFCI). It provides a unified framework for specifying background
knowledge, which can be incorporated into the implemented algorithms from the R packages 'bnlearn'
(Scutari, 2010; <doi:10.18637/jss.v035.i03>) and 'pcalg' (Kalish et al., 2012; <doi:10.18637/jss.v047.i11>),
as well as the Java library 'Tetrad' (Scheines et al., 1998; <doi:10.1207/s15327906mbr3301_3>).
The package further includes utilities for visualization, comparison, and evaluation of graph
structures, facilitating performance evaluation and methodological studies.
| Version: |
1.2.1 |
| Depends: |
R (≥ 4.2.0) |
| Imports: |
bnlearn, caugi (≥ 1.0.0), checkmate, cli, digest, dplyr, lifecycle, methods, pcalg, purrr, R6, rlang, S7, tibble, tidyr, tidyselect |
| Suggests: |
knitr, mockery, quarto, RhpcBLASctl, rJava, rmarkdown, spelling, testthat (≥ 3.0.0), withr, mice, micd |
| Published: |
2026-07-20 |
| DOI: |
10.32614/CRAN.package.causalDisco |
| Author: |
Bjarke Hautop Kristensen [aut, cre],
Frederik Fabricius-Bjerre [aut],
Anne Helby Petersen [aut],
Claus Thorn Ekstrøm [aut],
Tobias Ellegaard Larsen [ctb] |
| Maintainer: |
Bjarke Hautop Kristensen <bjarke.kristensen at sund.ku.dk> |
| BugReports: |
https://github.com/disco-coders/causalDisco/issues |
| License: |
GPL-2 |
| URL: |
https://github.com/disco-coders/causalDisco,
https://disco-coders.github.io/causalDisco/ |
| NeedsCompilation: |
no |
| Language: |
en-US |
| Materials: |
NEWS |
| CRAN checks: |
causalDisco results |
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