R Observatory: Metrics for RCT version 1.2

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

RCT

1.2Package record

Assign Treatments, Power Calculations, Balances, Impact Evaluation of Experiments

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4.8Kdownloads / year

85.3%test coverage

11/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Isidoro Garcia-UrquietaCRAN page ↗

Assists in the whole process of designing and evaluating Randomized Control Trials. Robust treatment assignment by strata/blocks, that handles misfits; Power calculations of the minimum detectable treatment effect or minimum populations; Balance tables of T-test of covariates; Balance Regression: (treatment ~ all x variables) with F-test of null model; Impact_evaluation: Impact evaluation regressions. This function gives you the option to include control_vars, fixed effect variables, cluster variables (for robust SE), multiple endogenous variables and multiple heterogeneous variables (to test treatment effect heterogeneity) summary_statistics: Function that creates a summary statistics table with statistics rank observations in n groups: Creates a factor variable with n groups. Each group has a min and max label attach to each category. Athey, Susan, and Guido W. Imbens (2017) arXiv:1607.00698.

Changes in 1.2

This version replaces the regression engine for impact_eval from lfe (deprecated) to lm_robust. It has extremely similar functionality. The main difference is that now we only support 1 cluster variables and no more than 2 fixed effect variables.

From NEWS.md in the release

Install

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

install.packages("RCT", 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-rct

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-RCT

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-RCT

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

2NOTE11OK

Check messages

NOTECRAN incoming feasibilityr-devel-linux-x86_64-debian-clang, r-devel-linux-x86_64-debian-gcc

Maintainer: ‘Isidoro Garcia-Urquieta <isidoro.gu@gmail.com>’

The Description field contains
  <arXiv:1607.00698>.
Please refer to arXiv e-prints via their arXiv DOI <doi:10.48550/arXiv.YYMM.NNNNN>.

CRAN check page ↗

Slowest check: 1.8 min · r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

Status changes

NOTE11 OK, 2 NOTE2026-06-09
ERROR11 OK, 1 NOTE, 1 ERROR2026-06-08
NOTE12 OK, 2 NOTE2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

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Documentation

In release 1.2

READMEYes · 548 wordsVignettesYes · 1 · dynamicNEWSYes · 67% structured · mentions 1.2Citation fileYes · software entry onlyWebsitenot declared in DESCRIPTION

Help pages: 10includes a package overview page
Examples that run: 100%9 run in a plain check
Exported functions with examples: 100%
Documented parameters: 99%
Return-value docs: 100%
Help pages citing references: 10%

Vignettes (1)

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How these are measured

Downloads

4.8K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #11,878 · ~13/day · ~398/mo

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31630 days

93290 days

4.8K1 year

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Dependencies

Declared dependencies

16 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing RCT adds 37 packages (19 with compiled code, 33 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: stringi 11 MB, ggplot2 6.0 MB, Rcpp 1.8 MB.

Depends (0)

none

Imports (15)

dplyr purrr glue rlang tidyr stringrMASSpracma estimatr broom forcats magrittr ggplot2utilstidyselect

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Suggests (3)

knitr rmarkdown testthat

Enhances (0)

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People & History

People (1)

Isidoro Garcia-Urquieta

Author, Maintainer since 1.0.0 (2020)

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Package metadata

First published: 2020-04-03
Total releases: 8 / 6 yrs
License: GPL-2 OSI
Download size: 28 KB

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' entry:

citation("RCT")

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 RCT version 1.2 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-26. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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