R Observatory: Metrics for ATbounds version 0.1.1

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

ATbounds

0.1.1Package record

Bounding Treatment Effects by Limited Information Pooling

0packages depend

3.9Kdownloads / year

95.0%test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Sokbae LeeCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Issues ↗

Estimation and inference methods for bounding average treatment effects (on the treated) that are valid under an unconfoundedness assumption. The bounds are designed to be robust in challenging situations, for example, when the conditioning variables take on a large number of different values in the observed sample, or when the overlap condition is violated. This robustness is achieved by only using limited "pooling" of information across observations. For more details, see the paper by Lee and Weidner, "Bounding Treatment Effects by Pooling Limited Information across Observations," forthcoming at the Journal of Econometrics, doi:10.48550/arXiv.2111.05243.

Changes in 0.1.1

Updated package metadata and documentation to reflect the forthcoming publication in the Journal of Econometrics.
Added links to the companion replication repository.
Made the NSW vignette code robust to package checks without internet access.
Fixed Rd markup for simulation_dgp().

From NEWS.md in the release

Install

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

install.packages("ATbounds", 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("ATbounds/ATbounds-r")

Development version from ATbounds/ATbounds-r. 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-atbounds

Fast Ubuntu binaries via r2u (no compilation). The cranapt setup runs once and is skipped when it is already enabled. We list this channel from recorded r2u download activity rather than from a live index of the repository, so treat it as last known rather than guaranteed.

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-ATbounds

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-ATbounds

RPMs auto-built from CRAN on openSUSE OBS (Tumbleweed). We list this channel from recorded autoCRAN download activity rather than from a live index of the repository, so treat it as last known rather than guaranteed.

Health

CRAN checks

13OK

CRAN check page ↗

Slowest check: 3.8 min · r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

Status changes

OK13 OK2026-08-05
NOTE12 OK, 1 NOTE2026-08-01
OK13 OK2026-05-14
NOTE12 NOTE2026-04-25
ERROR13 NOTE, 1 ERROR2026-03-30

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NOTE14 NOTE2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 0.1.1

READMEYes · 274 wordsVignettesYes · 1 · dynamicNEWSYes · 100% structured · mentions 0.1.1Citation fileNoWebsitenot declared in DESCRIPTION

Help pages: 6
Examples that run: 100%4 run in a plain check
Exported functions with examples: 100%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 100%
Help pages citing references: 100%

Vignettes (1)

ATbounds: An R Vignette PDF

How these are measured

Downloads

3.9K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #10,097 · ~11/day · ~328/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

33430 days

1K90 days

3.9K1 year

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How downloads are counted

Repository

atbounds/atbounds-r ↗Organization: ATbounds

3Stars

0Forks

0Open issues

0Open PRs

2Releases

74Commits

1Commit identities

causal-inferencetreatment-effectspartial-identificationunconfoundedness-assumptionlack-of-overlaplimited-overlap

74 commits · Last activity 2026-05-07 · 0% stars, 30d

Responsiveness

How these are sampled

PRs merged (all time): 60%
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed issues: not measured
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed PRs: 0

Stars over time

2022-04-03 · 32026-07-07 · 3

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

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

Checks run against github.com/atbounds/atbounds-r on 2026-10-22.

Continuous integration (1)

Travis CI (config file)

Docs source (1)

README.Rmd

Reproducibility and dev environment (1)

data-raw/

CRAN release process (1)

cran-comments.md

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Lint, format, editor (1)

RStudio project

How this is detected·Detection ruleset v4 (2026-10-20)

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

4 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing ATbounds adds no packages beyond those that come with R.

Depends (1)

R >= 2.10

Imports (2)

statsmgcv

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (4)

knitr rmarkdown testthat ggplot2

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

0direct

0indirect

Nothing depends on this yet.

How these are counted

Code & Tests

Datasets

People & History

People (2)

Sokbae Lee

Author, Maintainer since 0.1.0 (2021)

Martin Weidner

Author

Releases (2)

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Package metadata

First published: 2021-11-24
Total releases: 2 / 5 yrs
License: GPL-3 OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 2.10
Bundled data: 187 KB / 2 files
Download size: 337 KB

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("ATbounds")

Format

Lee, S., & Weidner, M. (2026). ATbounds: Bounding Treatment Effects by Limited Information Pooling (Version 0.1.1) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.ATbounds

This package has no citation file, so citation() returns this entry built from DESCRIPTION.

Cite the R Observatory

For a number measured here: a download total, a coverage figure, an archival date.

Format

APA

Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for ATbounds version 0.1.1 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-25. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

From data release v2026-10-25, which the citation names so these numbers can be found later. More on citing and the projects behind them.

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