R Observatory: Metrics for bife version 0.7.3

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

bife

0.7.3Package record

Binary Choice Models with Fixed Effects

0packages dependsuggested by 2

41.9Kdownloads / year

–test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Amrei StammannCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Issues ↗

Estimates fixed effects binary choice models (logit and probit) with potentially many individual fixed effects and computes average partial effects. Incidental parameter bias can be reduced with an asymptotic bias correction proposed by Fernandez-Val (2009) doi:10.1016/j.jeconom.2009.02.007.

Changes in 0.7.3

Replaced qr() by lm.fit to fix memory issue
Updated maintainer email address and removed CPP11 restriction (#13 @zeileis)

From inst/NEWS.Rd in the release

Install

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

install.packages("bife", 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("amrei-stammann/bife")

Development version from amrei-stammann/bife. 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-bife

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-bife

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-bife

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: 3.1 min · r-oldrel-macos-x86_64

Status changes

OK13 OK2026-08-05
NOTE12 OK, 1 NOTE2026-08-01
OK14 OK2026-04-22
ERROR13 OK, 1 ERROR2026-04-18
OK14 OK2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 0.7.3

READMEYes · 119 wordsVignettesYes · 1 · staticNEWSYes · mentions 0.7.3Citation fileYes · cites a publicationWebsitenot declared in DESCRIPTION

Help pages: 18
Examples that run: 0%3 only when donttest examples are enabled (R CMD check --as-cran)
Exported functions with examples: 75%
Documented parameters: 80%
Return-value docs: 100%
Help pages citing references: 22%

Vignettes (1)

How to use bife HTML

How these are measured

Downloads

41.9K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #2,261 · ~115/day · ~3.5K/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

2.6K30 days

7.6K90 days

41.9K1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on1.9K r2u25 autocran184 c2d4u

How downloads are counted

Repository

amrei-stammann/bife ↗Account: amrei-stammann

11Stars

2Forks

6Open issues

0Open PRs

0Releases

9Commits

3Commit identities

9 commits · Last activity 2025-12-31 · 0% stars, 30d

Responsiveness

How these are sampled

PRs merged (all time): not measured
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed issues: 75
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed PRs: not measured

Stars over time

2025-10-08 · 102026-07-07 · 11

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

Checks run against github.com/amrei-stammann/bife on 2026-10-21.

No development-tooling practices detected in the upstream repository.

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

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

8 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing bife adds 4 packages (3 with compiled code, 8.5 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: data.table 5.7 MB, Rcpp 1.8 MB, RcppArmadillo 1.0 MB.

Depends (1)

R >= 3.1.0

Imports (4)

data.table Formula Rcppstats

LinkingTo (2)

Rcpp RcppArmadillo

Suggests (3)

alpaca knitr rmarkdown

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

0direct

0indirect

Suggested by 2

Suggests, most downloaded first

marginaleffects alpaca

How these are counted

Code & Tests

Datasets

People & History

People (4)

Amrei Stammann

Author, Maintainer since 0.1 (2016)

Daniel Czarnowske

Author

Florian Heiss

Author

Daniel McFadden

Contributor

Releases (10)

Pick two releases to compare their code metrics.

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R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
unarchivedReturned to CRAN
2025-10-27
0.7.3Latest
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2025-10-27 · current release · diff ↗
archivedRemoved from CRAN
2025-09-17
email to the maintainer is undeliverable
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R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11
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R 4.4.0 released · 2024-04-24
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R 4.3.0 released · 2023-04-21
0.7.2
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2022-08-11 · diff ↗
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R 4.2.0 released · 2022-04-22
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R 4.1.0 released · 2021-05-18
0.7.1
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2020-10-30 · diff ↗
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R 4.0.0 released · 2020-04-24
0.7
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2020-01-12 · diff ↗
0.6
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2019-05-25 · diff ↗ ·
added 3 exports
bias_corr, bife_control, get_APEs
R
R 3.6.0 released · 2019-04-26
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R 3.5.0 released · 2018-04-23

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0.5
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2018-03-07 · diff ↗ ·
removed 1 export
fixed
0.4
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2017-05-07 · diff ↗
0.3
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2017-05-04 · diff ↗
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R 3.4.0 released · 2017-04-21
0.2
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2017-03-02 · diff ↗ ·
removed 1 export
pattern:^[[:alpha:]]+

added 3 exports
apeff_bife, bife, fixed
0.1
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2016-07-29
R
R 3.3.0 released · 2016-05-03

Package metadata

First published: 2016-07-29
Total releases: 10 / 10 yrs
License: GPL (>= 2) OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 3.1.0
Bundled data: 77 KB / 1 file
Download size: 118 KB

Appears in task views

Econometrics

Cite

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Run in R for the authors' entry:

citation("bife")

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 bife version 0.7.3 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-24. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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