R Observatory: Metrics for DiSCos version 0.1.4

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

DiSCos

0.1.4

Distributional Synthetic Controls Estimation

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4.5Kdownloads / year

82.6%test coverage

13/13checks pass

Overview

About

Maintained by David Van DijckeFirst published 2024-03-146 releasesCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗

The method of synthetic controls is a widely-adopted tool for evaluating causal effects of policy changes in settings with observational data. In many settings where it is applicable, researchers want to identify causal effects of policy changes on a treated unit at an aggregate level while having access to data at a finer granularity. This package implements a simple extension of the synthetic controls estimator, developed in Gunsilius (2023) doi:10.3982/ECTA18260, that takes advantage of this additional structure and provides nonparametric estimates of the heterogeneity within the aggregate unit. The idea is to replicate the quantile function associated with the treated unit by a weighted average of quantile functions of the control units. The package contains tools for aggregating and plotting the resulting distributional estimates, as well as for carrying out inference on them.

Install

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

install.packages("DiSCos", 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("Davidvandijcke/DiSCos")

Development version from Davidvandijcke/DiSCos. 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-discos

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-DiSCos

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-DiSCos

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

Health

CRAN checks

13OK

Slowest check: 4.0 min · r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

Code health

Yes

Tests · ratio 0.23

82.6%

Coverage · measured lines

100%

Documentation · exports

10

Dependencies · direct

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Documentation

READMEYes · 439 wordsVignettesYes · dynamicpkgdown siteNoNEWSYes · 100% structuredCode of conductNoContributing guideNo

Examples that run: 0%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 100%
References docs: 14%

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Dependencies

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14 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

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R >= 2.10data.table ggplot2

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People & History

People (3)

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David Van Dijcke

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Authors (3)

David Van Dijcke

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Florian Gunsilius

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Siyun He

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Package Timeline

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

0.1.4Latest
2026-07-13 · current release · diff ↗
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R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
0.1.3
2026-03-07 · diff ↗
0.1.2
2026-02-04 · diff ↗
unarchivedReturned to CRAN
2026-02-04
archivedRemoved from CRAN
2025-11-07
issues were not corrected despite reminders
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R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11
0.1.1
2024-07-23 · diff ↗
0.1.0
2024-05-13 · diff ↗
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R 4.4.0 released · 2024-04-24
0.0.1
2024-03-14
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R 4.3.0 released · 2023-04-21

Package metadata

First published: 2024-03-14
Total releases: 6 / 2 yrs
License: MIT + file LICENSE OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 2.10
Bundled data: 1.4 MB / 1 file
Download size: 1.9 MB
Installed size: not tracked yet
With dependencies: not tracked yet

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Format

Van Dijcke, D., Gunsilius, F., & He, S. (2026). DiSCos: Distributional Synthetic Controls Estimation (Version 0.1.4) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.DiSCos

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Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for DiSCos version 0.1.4 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-08-18. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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