R Observatory: Metrics for binsreg version 2.2

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

binsreg

2.2Package record

Binscatter Estimation and Inference

0packages depend

12.3Kdownloads / year

5.9%test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Matias D. CattaneoCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Website ↗Issues ↗

Provides tools for statistical analysis using the binscatter methods developed by Cattaneo, Crump, Farrell and Feng (2024) https://nppackages.github.io/references/Cattaneo-Crump-Farrell-Feng_2024_AER.pdf, Cattaneo, Crump, Farrell and Feng (2025) https://nppackages.github.io/references/Cattaneo-Crump-Farrell-Feng_2025_Stata.pdf and Cattaneo, Crump, Farrell and Feng (2026) https://nppackages.github.io/references/Cattaneo-Crump-Farrell-Feng_2026_RESTAT.pdf. Binscatter provides a flexible way of describing the relationship between two variables based on partitioning/binning of the independent variable of interest. binsreg(), binsqreg() and binsglm() implement binscatter least squares regression, quantile regression and generalized linear regression respectively, with particular focus on constructing binned scatter plots. They also implement robust (pointwise and uniform) inference of regression functions and derivatives thereof. binstest() implements hypothesis testing procedures for parametric functional forms of and nonparametric shape restrictions on the regression function. binspwc() implements hypothesis testing procedures for pairwise group comparison of binscatter estimators. binsregselect() implements data-driven procedures for selecting the number of bins for binscatter estimation. All the commands allow for covariate adjustment, smoothness restrictions and clustering.

Install

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

install.packages("binsreg", 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("nppackages/binsreg")

Development version from nppackages/binsreg. 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-binsreg

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-binsreg

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-binsreg

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: 3.9 min · r-oldrel-macos-x86_64

Status changes

OK13 OK2026-08-05
NOTE12 OK, 1 NOTE2026-08-01
OK13 OK2026-06-09
NOTE12 OK, 1 NOTE2026-06-08
OK13 OK2026-05-20

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NOTE12 OK, 2 NOTE2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 2.2

READMENoVignettesNoNEWSNoCitation fileNoWebsiteYes

Help pages: 19 (12 internal)includes a package overview page
Examples that run: 100%6 run in a plain check
Exported functions with examples: 100%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 100%
Help pages citing references: 37%

How these are measured

Downloads

12.3K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #3,819 · ~34/day · ~1K/mo

Releases R versions

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1K30 days

2.5K90 days

12.3K1 year

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Also on255 r2u27 autocran1.7K conda_forge

How downloads are counted

Repository

nppackages/binsreg ↗Organization: nppackages

54Stars

20Forks

0Open issues

0Open PRs

1Releases

108Commits

2Commit identities

108 commits · Last activity 2026-08-21 · -1.8% stars, 30d

Responsiveness

How these are sampled

PRs merged (all time): 56%
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed issues: 0
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed PRs: 1

Stars over time

2026-07-14 · 542026-10-18 · 54

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

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

Checks run against github.com/nppackages/binsreg on 2026-10-18.

Continuous integration (2)

GitHub ActionsR CMD check workflow

The R CMD check workflow runs on Linux

Governance and community (3)

Issue templatesPR templateSecurity policy

Automation and maintenance (1)

Dependabot

Git structural (1)

.gitattributes

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

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

5 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing binsreg adds 23 packages (11 with compiled code, 17 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: ggplot2 6.0 MB, isoband 1.5 MB, sandwich 1.4 MB.

Depends (1)

R >= 3.1

Imports (5)

ggplot2 sandwich quantregsplinesmatrixStats

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (1)

testthat

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

0direct

0indirect

Nothing depends on this yet.

How these are counted

Code & Tests

People & History

People (4)

Matias D. Cattaneo

Author, Maintainer since 2.0 (2026)

Richard K. Crump

Author

Max H. Farrell

Author

Yingjie Feng

Author

Previously maintained by Yingjie Feng (0.2.0 to 1.1).

Releases (9)

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R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
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R 4.3.0 released · 2023-04-21
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R 4.2.0 released · 2022-04-22
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0.6
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2021-08-07 · diff ↗ ·
removed 1 export
binsregtest

added 4 exports
binsglm, binspwc, binsqreg, binstest
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R 4.1.0 released · 2021-05-18
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R 4.0.0 released · 2020-04-24
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R 3.6.0 released · 2019-04-26

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R 3.5.0 released · 2018-04-23

Package metadata

First published: 2019-03-19
Total releases: 9 / 7 yrs
License: GPL-3 OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 3.1
Download size: 106 KB

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("binsreg")

Format

Cattaneo, M. D., Crump, R. K., Farrell, M. H., & Feng, Y. (2026). binsreg: Binscatter Estimation and Inference (Version 2.2) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.binsreg

This package has no citation file, so citation() returns this entry built from DESCRIPTION.

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Format

APA

Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for binsreg version 2.2 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-22. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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