R Observatory: Metrics for badcontrols version 1.0.1

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

badcontrols

1.0.1Package record

Difference-in-Differences with Bad Controls

0packages depend

599downloads / year

88.8%test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Hugo Sant'AnnaCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Issues ↗

Implements methods for difference-in-differences with bad controls, i.e., time-varying covariates that are affected by the treatment. Provides imputation, doubly robust, and machine learning estimators that are based on Caetano, Callaway, Payne, and Sant'Anna (2026) doi:10.48550/arXiv.2608.03881.

Changes in 1.0.1

Tests now pin num_threads = 2 for the grf-backed estimators so that R CMD check stays within CRAN's two-core limit. No user-facing changes.

From NEWS.md in the release

Install

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

install.packages("badcontrols", 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("hugosantanna/badcontrols")

Development version from hugosantanna/badcontrols. 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-badcontrols

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-badcontrols

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-badcontrols

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: 3.8 min · r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

Status changes

OK13 OKNow
OK5 OK2026-09-13

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 1.0.1

READMEYes · 659 wordsVignettesYes · 2 · dynamicNEWSYes · 100% structured · mentions 1.0.1Citation fileYes · cites a publication

Help pages: 8 (4 internal)includes a package overview page
Examples that run: 75%3 run in a plain check · 1 never run
Exported functions with examples: 100%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 100%
Help pages citing references: 38%

Vignettes (2)

How these are measured

Downloads

599

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #22,012 · ~2/day · ~50/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

48530 days

59990 days

5991 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on8 r2u36 autocran

How downloads are counted

Repository

hugosantanna/badcontrols ↗Account: hugosantanna

5Stars

2Forks

1Open issues

0Open PRs

0Releases

68Commits

2Commit identities

68 commits · Last activity 2026-09-03 · +66.7% stars, 30d · The default branch showed an older version (1.0.0) than CRAN on 2026-10-18

Responsiveness

How these are sampled

PRs merged (all time): 100%
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed issues: not measured
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed PRs: 0

Stars over time

2026-09-13 · 02026-10-21 · 5

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

8 development-tooling and community-health practices detected across 5 families in the upstream repository

Checks run against github.com/hugosantanna/badcontrols on 2026-10-18.

Continuous integration (2)

GitHub ActionsR CMD check workflow

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

Docs source (3)

README.qmdpkgdown

GitHub Pages site last deployed 2026-09-03

Reproducibility and dev environment (1)

data-raw/

CRAN release process (1)

cran-comments.md

Show all practicesHide 1 practice

Research and citation (1)

CITATION.cff

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

AI coding toolsBeta

This repository shows signs of AI coding tools.

Claude Codefirst seen 2026-03-05
Pull request it wrote: opened by a project member
Commits: at least 43 crediting it in the message

Models named in its commits

Claude Sonnet 540 commits · Jul to Sep 2026
Claude Opus 4.63 commits · Mar 2026

Counts are commits, not lines of code. Commits by a tool's accounts count once across all of its accounts. Commits crediting it are the largest count among its credit lines, a minimum.How this is detected·Detection ruleset v4 (updated 2026-09-27)

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

5 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing badcontrols adds 41 packages (22 with compiled code, 43 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: BH 14 MB, ggplot2 6.0 MB, data.table 5.7 MB.

Depends (1)

R >= 4.1.0

Imports (2)

ptetoolsstats

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (4)

grf testthat knitr quarto

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)

Hugo Sant'Anna

Author, Maintainer since 1.0.1 (2026)

Carolina Caetano

Author

Brantly Callaway

Author

Stroud Payne

Author

Releases (1)

1.0.1Latest
record
2026-09-12 · current release
R
R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24

Package metadata

First published: 2026-09-12
Total releases: 1 / 1 yrs
License: GPL (>= 3) OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 4.1.0
Bundled data: 128 KB / 1 file
Download size: 246 KB

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' entry:

citation("badcontrols")

The package provides a citation file, so citation() returns the authors' own entry.

The repository also keeps a CITATION.cff.

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 badcontrols version 1.0.1 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-21. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

From data release v2026-10-21, which the citation names so these numbers can be found later. More on citing and the projects behind them.

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