R Observatory: Metrics for RCT version 1.2

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

RCT

1.2

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

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5.1Kdownloads / year

85.3%test coverage

11/13checks pass

Overview

About

Maintained by Isidoro Garcia-UrquietaFirst published 2020-04-038 releasesCRAN 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.

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.

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).

Health

CRAN checks

2NOTE11OK

Failing flavors

NOTE r-devel-linux-x86_64-debian-clang
NOTE r-devel-linux-x86_64-debian-gcc

Slowest check: 2.0 min · r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

Code health

Yes

Tests · ratio 0.41

85.3%

Coverage · measured lines

100%

Documentation · exports

15

Dependencies · direct

Check history

NOTE2026-06-09
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ERROR2026-06-08
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NOTE2026-03-10
12 OK · 2 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE

Documentation

READMEYes · 548 wordsVignettesYes · dynamicpkgdown siteNoNEWSYes · 67% structuredCode of conductNoContributing guideNo

Examples that run: 100%
Documented parameters: 99%
Return-value docs: 100%
References docs: 10%

Downloads

5.1K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #11,600 · ~14/day · ~427/mo

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Dependencies

Declared dependencies

16 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

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none

Imports (15)

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Code & Tests

People & History

People (1)

Maintainer (1)

Isidoro Garcia-Urquieta

Author, Maintainer

Authors (1)

Isidoro Garcia-Urquieta

Author, Maintainer

Package Timeline

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Package metadata

First published: 2020-04-03
Total releases: 8 / 6 yrs
License: GPL-2 OSI
Download size: 28 KB
Installed size: not tracked yet
With dependencies: not tracked yet

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Format

Garcia-Urquieta, I. (2024). RCT: Assign Treatments, Power Calculations, Balances, Impact Evaluation of Experiments (Version 1.2) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.RCT

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Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for RCT version 1.2 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-08-24. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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