R Observatory: Metrics for SCtools version 0.3.3.1

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

SCtools

0.3.3.1Package record

Extensions for Synthetic Controls Analysis

0packages depend

6.7Kdownloads / year

91.8%test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Bruno Castanho SilvaCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Issues ↗

Extends the functionality of the package 'Synth' as detailed in Abadie, Diamond, and Hainmueller (2011) doi:10.18637/jss.v042.i13. Includes generating and plotting placebos, post/pre-MSPE (Mean Squared Prediction Error) significance tests and plots, and calculating average treatment effects for multiple treated units.

Install

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

install.packages("SCtools", 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("bcastanho/SCtools")

Development version from bcastanho/SCtools. 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-sctools

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-SCtools

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-SCtools

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: 2.1 min · r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

Status changes

OK13 OK2026-08-05
NOTE12 OK, 1 NOTE2026-08-01
OK13 OK2026-06-09
ERROR12 OK, 1 ERROR2026-06-08
OK14 OK2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 0.3.3.1

READMEYes · 109 wordsVignettesYes · 2 · dynamicNEWSYes · 67% structured · does not mention 0.3.3.1Citation fileNo

Description cites a JSS article

Help pages: 11includes a package overview page
Examples that run: 17%1 run in a plain check · 5 only when donttest examples are enabled (R CMD check --as-cran)
Exported functions with examples: 75%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 100%
Help pages citing references: 9%

Vignettes (2)

How these are measured

Downloads

6.7K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #5,901 · ~18/day · ~559/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

45730 days

1.4K90 days

6.7K1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on73 r2u3 autocran

How downloads are counted

Repository

bcastanho/sctools ↗Account: bcastanho

13Stars

8Forks

4Open issues

0Open PRs

1Releases

116Commits

5Commit identities

License file reads as GPL-3.0 · 116 commits · Last activity 2024-04-30 · 0% stars, 30d · The default branch showed an older version (0.3.3) than CRAN on 2026-10-18

Responsiveness

How these are sampled

PRs merged (all time): 83%
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed issues: 0
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed PRs: 0

Stars over time

2023-11-28 · 132026-07-07 · 13

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

10 development-tooling and community-health practices detected across 7 families in the upstream repository

Checks run against github.com/bcastanho/sctools on 2026-10-18.

Continuous integration (2)

Travis CI (config file)AppVeyor

Governance and community (2)

Code of conductIssue templates

Docs source (2)

README.Rmdpkgdown

Coverage (1)

Coverage reporting (Codecov)

Show all practicesHide 3 practices

Reproducibility and dev environment (1)

data-raw/

CRAN release process (1)

cran-comments.md

Lint, format, editor (1)

RStudio project

How this is detected·Detection ruleset v3 (2026-09-26)

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

13 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing SCtools adds 45 packages (21 with compiled code, 39 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: stringi 11 MB, ggplot2 6.0 MB, optimx 2.2 MB.

Depends (2)

R >= 3.5future

Imports (10)

ggplot2 Synth stringrstatscvTools furrr dplyr purrr tidyr magrittr

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (3)

testthat knitr rmarkdown

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 (2)

Bruno Castanho Silva

Author, Maintainer since 0.3.0 (2019)

Michael DeWitt

Author

Releases (6)

Pick two releases to compare their code metrics.

R
R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
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R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11
0.3.3.1Latest
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2025-01-27 · current release · diff ↗
unarchivedReturned to CRAN
2024-05-01
0.3.3
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2024-05-01 · diff ↗
R
R 4.4.0 released · 2024-04-24
R
R 4.3.0 released · 2023-04-21
archivedRemoved from CRAN
2023-04-14
requires archived package 'LowRankQP'
0.3.2.1
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2022-06-09 · diff ↗
0.3.2
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2022-06-01 · diff ↗
R
R 4.2.0 released · 2022-04-22
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R 4.1.0 released · 2021-05-18
0.3.1
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2020-08-26 · diff ↗
R
R 4.0.0 released · 2020-04-24
0.3.0
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2019-12-12
R
R 3.6.0 released · 2019-04-26

Package metadata

First published: 2019-12-12
Total releases: 6 / 7 yrs
License: GPL-3 OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 3.5
Bundled data: 127 KB / 2 files
Download size: 1.3 MB

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("SCtools")

Format

Castanho Silva, B., & DeWitt, M. (2025). SCtools: Extensions for Synthetic Controls Analysis (Version 0.3.3.1) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.SCtools

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 SCtools version 0.3.3.1 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-20. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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