causalMGM is an R package that allow users to learn undirected and directed (causal) graphs over mixed data types (i.e., continuous and discrete variables). To learn a directed graph over mixed data, it first calculates the undirected graph (Sedgewick et al, 2016) and then it uses local search strategies to prune-and-orient this graph (Sedgewick et al, 2017).

R >= 3.2.0, Java >= 1.7.0, rJava

Note: If legacy Java 1.6 version is installed in the computer alongside higher versions, RStudio call of rJava will default to Java 1.6. In this case causalMGM will fail to run. Please remove Java 1.6 (or place it in another directory) before installing causalMGM.

• Install JDK Tools
• Reconfigure R installation for Java in the terminal

$ sudo R CMD javareconf

• Manually load libjvm.dylib in R (e.g., in RStudio)

> dyn.load('/path/to/libjvm.dylib')
e.g.:
> dyn.load('/Library/Java/JavaVirtualMachines/jdk1.8.0_65.jdk/Contents/Home/jre/lib/server/libjvm.dylib')

• Install the R library requirements:

> install.packages("rJava")

• Install causalMGM from github:

> library(devtools)
> install_github("benoslab/causalMGM")
> library(causalMGM)

• Install the R library requirements:

> install.packages("rJava")

• Install causalMGM:

> library(devtools)
> install.packages("causalMGM")
> library(causalMGM)

> mgm_init() # Initialize MGM
# FOR EXAMPLE DATASET 
> dataset <- loadSampleData() # loads sample dataset, use loadData() to load own dataset
> undgraph <- mgm(dataset) # learn the undirected graph over 'dataset'
Please enter the continuous-continuous lambda value: 0.16
Please enter the continuous-discrete lambda value: 0.2
Please enter the discrete-discrete lambda value: 0.3
> mgm.pc_stable(dataset, undgraph) # learn the directed graph using 'undgraph' as skeleton to guide local searches.

Andrew J Sedgewick, Joseph D. Ramsey, Peter Spirtes, Clark Glymour, Panayiotis V. Benos, "Mixed Graphical Models for Causal Analysis of Multi-modal Variables", 2017, arXiv:1704.02621

AJ Sedgewick, I Shi, RM Donovan, PV Benos, "Learning mixed graphical models with separate sparsity parameters and stability-based model selection", 2016, BM Bioinformatics 17(Suppl 5):S175 DOI: 10.1186/s12859-016-1039-0

The causalMGM R package is developed by Neha Abraham and the Benos lab. Please contact [email protected] with any questions.