R Observatory: Metrics for OVtool version 1.0.3

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

OVtool

1.0.3Package record

Omitted Variable Tool

0packages depend

3.4Kdownloads / year

–test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Lane BurgetteCRAN page ↗

This tool was designed to assess the sensitivity of research findings to omitted variables when estimating causal effects using propensity score (PS) weighting. This tool produces graphics and summary results that will enable a researcher to quantify the impact an omitted variable would have on their results. Burgette et al. (2021) describe the methodology behind the primary function in this package, ov_sim. The method is demonstrated in Griffin et al. (2020) doi:10.1016/j.jsat.2020.108075.

Install

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

install.packages("OVtool", repos = "https://cloud.r-project.org/")

Installs the current CRAN release. Prebuilt binaries on Windows and macOS.

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-ovtool

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-OVtool

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-OVtool

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: 6.8 min · r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

Status changes

OK13 OK2026-08-05
NOTE12 OK, 1 NOTE2026-08-01
OK14 OK2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 1.0.3

READMEYes · 5,396 wordsVignettesYes · 1 · dynamicNEWSNoCitation fileNoWebsitenot declared in DESCRIPTION

Help pages: 13
Examples that run: 100%13 run in a plain check
Exported functions with examples: 100%
Documented parameters: not tracked
Return-value docs: not tracked
Help pages citing references: 8%

Vignettes (1)

OVtool - Omitted Variable Tool HTML

How these are measured

Downloads

3.4K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #14,062 · ~9/day · ~283/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

27930 days

84890 days

3.4K1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on98 r2u1 autocran115 c2d4u

How downloads are counted

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

19 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing OVtool adds 148 packages (77 with compiled code, 109 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: stringi 11 MB, sf 9.3 MB, ggplot2 6.0 MB.

Depends (2)

R >= 2.10twang

Imports (17)

Amelia EnvStats devtools dplyr ggplot2 ggrepel glue magrittr metR purrr progress rlang surveystatstibble tidyselect varhandle

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (2)

rmarkdown knitr

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 (4)

Lane Burgette

Author, Maintainer since 1.0.3 (2021)

Beth Ann Griffin

Author

Daniel McCaffrey

Author

Joseph Pane

Author

Previously maintained by Joseph Pane (1.0.0 to 1.0.2).

Releases (4)

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R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
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R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11
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R 4.4.0 released · 2024-04-24
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R 4.3.0 released · 2023-04-21
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R 4.2.0 released · 2022-04-22
unarchivedReturned to CRAN
2021-11-02
1.0.3Latest
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2021-11-02 · current release · diff ↗
archivedRemoved from CRAN
2021-10-06
email to the maintainer was undeliverable
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2021-08-18 · diff ↗
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R 4.1.0 released · 2021-05-18
1.0.1
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2021-04-19 · diff ↗
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2021-03-18
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R 4.0.0 released · 2020-04-24

Package metadata

First published: 2021-03-18
Total releases: 4 / 5 yrs
License: GPL-3 OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 2.10
Bundled data: 154 KB / 1 file
Download size: 2.6 MB

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Causal Inference

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("OVtool")

Format

Burgette, L., Griffin, B. A., McCaffrey, D., & Pane, J. (2021). OVtool: Omitted Variable Tool (Version 1.0.3) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.OVtool

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 OVtool version 1.0.3 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-26. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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