R Observatory: Metrics for RobustFlow version 0.1.1

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

RobustFlow

0.1.1Package record

Robustness and Drift Auditing for Longitudinal Decision Systems

0packages depend

2.1Kdownloads / year

33.7%test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Subir HaitCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Issues ↗

Provides tools for constructing longitudinal decision paths, quantifying temporal drift, tracking subgroup disparity trajectories, and stress-testing longitudinal conclusions under hidden bias. Implements three signature metrics: the Drift Intensity Index (DII), which measures structural instability in transition dynamics using the Frobenius norm of consecutive transition matrix differences; the Bias Amplification Index (BAI), which quantifies whether group disparities widen or converge over time; and the Temporal Fragility Index (TFI), which estimates the minimum hidden-bias perturbation required to nullify a longitudinal trend conclusion. An interactive 'shiny' application supports exploratory analysis, visualization, and reproducible reporting. Methods are motivated by applications in educational and social science research, including the Early Childhood Longitudinal Study (ECLS). The DII is based on the Frobenius norm as described in Golub and Van Loan (2013, ISBN:9781421407944). The TFI extends the hidden-bias sensitivity framework of Rosenbaum (2002, ISBN:9781441912633). The BAI draws on disparity-trajectory methods discussed in Duncan and Murnane (2011, ISBN:9780871542731).

Changes in 0.1.1

CRAN compliance fixes

Fixed invalid URL in man/RobustFlow-package.Rd (updated to causalfragility-lab organisation).
Added inst/WORDLIST to register DII, BAI, TFI as valid package-specific acronyms.

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From NEWS.md in the release

Install

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

install.packages("RobustFlow", 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("causalfragility-lab/RobustFlow")

Development version from causalfragility-lab/RobustFlow. 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-robustflow

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-RobustFlow

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-RobustFlow

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: 2.3 min · r-oldrel-macos-x86_64

Status changes

OK13 OK2026-09-08
ERROR12 OK, 1 ERROR2026-09-07
OK13 OK2026-08-05
NOTE12 OK, 1 NOTE2026-08-01
OK13 OK2026-06-09

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ERROR12 OK, 1 ERROR2026-06-08
OK6 OK2026-04-23

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 0.1.1

READMEYes · 454 wordsVignettesYes · 1 · dynamicNEWSYes · 100% structured · mentions 0.1.1Citation fileNoWebsitenot declared in DESCRIPTION

Help pages: 10 (1 internal)includes a package overview page
Examples that run: 100%9 run in a plain check (1 of them under a condition)
Exported functions with examples: 100%
Documented parameters: 96%
Return-value docs: 100%
Help pages citing references: 30%

Vignettes (1)

Introduction to RobustFlow HTML

How these are measured

Downloads

2.1K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #13,475 · ~6/day · ~177/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

28530 days

86490 days

2.1K1 year

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Also on37 r2u3 autocran

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Repository

subirhait/RobustFlow ↗Account: subirhait

Moved from causalfragility-lab/robustflow.

0Stars

0Forks

0Open issues

0Open PRs

1Releases

5Commits

1Commit identities

5 commits · Last activity 2026-04-22

Responsiveness

not measured

Releases over time

2026-04-19 · 12026-07-07 · 1

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

6 development-tooling and community-health practices detected across 4 families in the upstream repository

Checks run against github.com/causalfragility-lab/robustflow on 2026-10-22.

Continuous integration (2)

GitHub ActionsR CMD check workflow

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

Coverage (1)

Coverage reporting

CRAN release process (2)

cran-comments.mdCRAN-SUBMISSION

Lint, format, editor (1)

RStudio project

How this is detected·Detection ruleset v4 (2026-10-20)

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

13 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing RobustFlow adds 73 packages (38 with compiled code, 71 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: stringi 11 MB, ggplot2 6.0 MB, data.table 5.7 MB.

Depends (1)

R >= 4.2.0

Imports (12)

shiny golem bslib ggplot2 DT plotly scales (>= 1.2.0)htmltools rmarkdownstatstoolsutils

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (4)

testthat knitr covr withr

Enhances (0)

none

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Reverse dependencies

0direct

0indirect

Nothing depends on this yet.

How these are counted

Code & Tests

People & History

People (1)

Subir Hait

Author, Maintainer since 0.1.1 (2026)

Releases (1)

R
R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
0.1.1Latest
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2026-04-22 · current release
R
R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11

Package metadata

First published: 2026-04-22
Total releases: 1 / 1 yrs
License: GPL (>= 3) OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 4.2.0
Download size: 72 KB

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citation("RobustFlow")

Format

Hait, S. (2026). RobustFlow: Robustness and Drift Auditing for Longitudinal Decision Systems (Version 0.1.1) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.RobustFlow

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Format

APA

Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for RobustFlow version 0.1.1 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-25. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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