R Observatory: Metrics for DeclareDesign version 1.1.1

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

DeclareDesign

1.1.1Package record

Declare and Diagnose Research Designs

1packages dependsuggested by 6

35.3Kdownloads / year

92.9%test coverage

8/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Alexander CoppockCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Website ↗Issues ↗

Researchers can characterize and learn about the properties of research designs before implementation using `DeclareDesign`. Ex ante declaration and diagnosis of designs can help researchers clarify the strengths and limitations of their designs and to improve their properties, and can help readers evaluate a research strategy prior to implementation and without access to results. It can also make it easier for designs to be shared, replicated, and critiqued.

Changes in 1.1.1

Bug fix: replaced unexported rlang internal quo_get_env() with the exported get_env() in aaa.R and declare_potential_outcomes.R. The unexported function caused test failures on CRAN when rlang updated its export list.
Bug fix: replaced enquo() with substitute() in +.dd to correctly capture step expressions under the new rlang C API. Thanks to Lionel Henry (@lionel-) for the fix.
Added CausalQueries, rdrobust, and rdss to Suggests to satisfy CRAN dependency checks for tests that use those packages.
Made top-level test setup use soft package loads so checks pass when suggested packages are not locally installed.
Improved print.design() output: clearer labels, deduplication of parameter names across environments, and truncation of long values in the printed parameter table.
Added example to select_diagnosands() documentation showing use of the alpha argument.

From NEWS.md in the release

Install

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

install.packages("DeclareDesign", 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("DeclareDesign/DeclareDesign")

Development version from DeclareDesign/DeclareDesign. 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-declaredesign

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-DeclareDesign

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-DeclareDesign

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

5NOTE8OK

Check messages

NOTER code for possible problemsr-devel-linux-x86_64-debian-clang, r-devel-linux-x86_64-debian-gcc, r-devel-linux-x86_64-fedora-clang, r-devel-linux-x86_64-fedora-gcc, r-devel-windows-x86_64

Found calls to structure() using deprecated special names:
  DeclareDesign/tests/testthat/test-describe_variable.R (.Names: 1)
  DeclareDesign/tests/testthat/test-diagnosands.R (.Label: 3)
  DeclareDesign/tests/testthat/test-estimands.R (.Names: 6, .Label: 1)
  DeclareDesign/tests/testthat/test-expand-design.R (.Dim: 4, .Dimnames: 4)
  DeclareDesign/tests/testthat/test-model.R (.Label: 1)
  DeclareDesign/tests/testthat/test-reshape-diagnosis.R (.Label: 1)
  DeclareDesign/tests/testthat/test-scaffolding.R (.Label: 1, .Names: 1)
'.Names' should be changed to 'names'.
'.Label' should be changed to 'levels'.
'.Dim' should be changed to 'dim'.
'.Dimnames' should be changed to 'dimnames'.

CRAN check page ↗

Slowest check: 6.4 min · r-oldrel-macos-x86_64

Status changes

NOTE8 OK, 5 NOTENow
NOTE10 OK, 3 NOTE2026-07-16
OK13 OK2026-05-06
ERROR13 OK, 1 ERROR2026-04-07
OK14 OK2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 1.1.1

README· In the repository, left out of the releaseVignettes· In the repository, left out of the releaseNEWSYes · 100% structured · mentions 1.1.1Citation fileYes · cites a publicationWebsiteYes

Help pages: 39 (8 internal)includes a package overview page
Examples that run: 97%30 run in a plain check · 1 never run
Exported functions with examples: 85%
Documented parameters: 93%
Return-value docs: 64%
Help pages citing references: 0%

How these are measured

Downloads

35.3K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #2,307 · ~97/day · ~2.9K/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

2.9K30 days

7.3K90 days

35.3K1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on719 r2u11 autocran1.5K conda_forge

How downloads are counted

Repository

declaredesign/declaredesign ↗Organization: DeclareDesign

112Stars

15Forks

22Open issues

6Open PRs

14Releases

1,610Commits

13Commit identities

researchdesignrsimulations

1,610 commits · Last activity 2026-09-21 · +0.9% stars, 30d · Discussions: 2 posts

Responsiveness

How these are sampled

PRs merged (all time): 91%
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed issues: 317
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed PRs: 2

Stars over time

2025-09-26 · 1042026-10-12 · 112

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

10 development-tooling and community-health practices detected across 6 families in the upstream repository

Checks run against github.com/declaredesign/declaredesign on 2026-10-18.

Continuous integration (2)

GitHub ActionsR CMD check workflow

The R CMD check workflow runs on Linux, macOS and Windows, and on R-devel

Governance and community (1)

Code of conduct

Docs source (3)

README.Rmdpkgdown

GitHub Pages site last deployed 2018-05-28

Coverage (1)

Coverage reporting (Codecov)

Show all practicesHide 2 practices

CRAN release process (2)

cran-comments.mdCRAN-SUBMISSION

Lint, format, editor (1)

RStudio project

How this is detected·Detection ruleset v3 (2026-09-26)

AI coding toolsBeta

This repository shows signs of AI coding tools.

Claude Codefirst seen 2026-08-08
Commits: at least 6 crediting it in the message

Models named in its commits

Claude Opus 56 commits · Aug to Sep 2026

Counts are commits, not lines of code. Commits by a tool's accounts count once across all of its accounts. Commits crediting it are the largest count among its credit lines, a minimum.How this is detected·Detection ruleset v4 (updated 2026-09-27)

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

30 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing DeclareDesign adds 17 packages (11 with compiled code, 8.9 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: Rcpp 1.8 MB, RcppEigen 1.7 MB, vctrs 1.0 MB.

Depends (4)

R >= 4.1.0randomizr fabricatr estimatr

Imports (3)

rlang genericsmethods

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (26)

testthat knitr rmarkdown AER diffobj dplyr data.table tibble ggplot2 future future.apply broomMASSMatching betareg biglm gam sf reshape2 DesignLibrary coin marginaleffects psych CausalQueries rdrobust rdss

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

1direct

0indirect

Depends 1

Suggested by 6

Depends, Imports or LinkingTo, most downloaded first

DesignLibrary

Suggests, most downloaded first

marginaleffects estimatr randomizr ordbetareg rdss CausalQueries

How these are counted

Code & Tests

People & History

People (5)

Alexander Coppock

Author, Maintainer since 1.1.0 (2025)

Author

Author

Author

Author

Previously maintained by Graeme Blair (0.10.0 to 1.0.10).

Releases (19)

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1.1.1Latest
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2026-04-28 · current release · diff ↗
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R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
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select_diagnosands
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R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11
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R 4.3.0 released · 2023-04-21
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1.0.0
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2022-06-20 · diff ↗ ·
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model_handler
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R 4.2.0 released · 2022-04-22
0.30.0
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2022-01-28 · diff ↗ ·
removed 2 exports
draw_assignment, draw_sample

added 1 export
pop.var
0.28.0
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2021-08-21 · diff ↗ ·
removed 2 exports
draw_inquiries, draw_inquiry
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R 4.1.0 released · 2021-05-18

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0.26.0
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2021-02-14 · diff ↗ ·
removed 3 exports
compare_design_estimands, reveal_outcomes, reveal_outcomes_handler

added 8 exports
compare_design_inquiries, declare_inquiries, declare_inquiry, declare_model, draw_estimand, draw_inquiries, draw_inquiry, vars
0.24.0
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2020-11-14 · diff ↗ ·
removed 1 export
get_estimands

added 6 exports
declare_measurement, declare_test, label_estimator, label_test, reveal_outcomes, tidy_try
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R 4.0.0 released · 2020-04-24
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0.20.0
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2019-09-10 · diff ↗ ·
added 1 export
compare_diagnoses
0.18.0
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2019-04-30 · diff ↗ ·
added 6 exports
compare_design_code, compare_design_data, compare_design_estimands, compare_design_estimates, compare_design_summaries, compare_designs
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R 3.6.0 released · 2019-04-26
0.16.0
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added 2 exports
draw_assignment, draw_sample
0.14.0
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2018-11-09 · diff ↗ ·
removed 1 export
declare_design

added 5 exports
diagnose_designs, draw_estimands, draw_estimates, simulate_designs, tidy
0.10.0
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2018-07-29
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R 3.5.0 released · 2018-04-23

Package metadata

First published: 2018-07-29
Total releases: 19 / 8 yrs
License: MIT + file LICENSE OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 4.1.0
Download size: 127 KB

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' entry:

citation("DeclareDesign")

The package provides a citation file, so citation() returns the authors' own entry.

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Format

APA

Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for DeclareDesign version 1.1.1 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-20. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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