R Observatory: Metrics for birdie version 0.7.1

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

birdie

0.7.1

Bayesian Instrumental Regression for Disparity Estimation

1packages depend

2.9Kdownloads / year

65.3%test coverage

13/13checks pass

Overview

About

Maintained by Cory McCartanFirst published 2024-06-112 releasesCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗

Bayesian models for accurately estimating conditional distributions by race, using Bayesian Improved Surname Geocoding (BISG) probability estimates of individual race. Implements the methods described in McCartan, Fisher, Goldin, Ho and Imai (2025) doi:10.1080/01621459.2025.2526695.

Install

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

install.packages("birdie", 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("CoryMcCartan/birdie")

Development version from CoryMcCartan/birdie. 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-birdie

Fast Ubuntu binaries via r2u (no compilation). The cranapt setup runs once and is skipped when it is already enabled.

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-birdie

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-birdie

RPMs auto-built from CRAN on openSUSE OBS (Tumbleweed).

Health

CRAN checks

13OK

Slowest check: 8.5 min · r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

Code health

Yes

Tests · ratio 0.11

65.3%

Coverage · measured lines

100%

Documentation · exports

11

Dependencies · direct

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ERROR2026-07-27
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Documentation

READMEYes · 340 wordsVignettesYes · dynamicpkgdown siteNoNEWSYes · 100% structuredCode of conductNoContributing guideNo

Examples that run: 91%
Documented parameters: 95%
Return-value docs: 90%
References docs: 38%

Downloads

2.9K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #12,042 · ~8/day · ~241/mo

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Repository

GitHub ↗ corymccartan/birdie

7Stars

4Forks

2Open issues

0Open PRs

5Releases

168Commits

3Contributors

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License GPL-3.0 · 168 commits · Last activity 2026-08-07 · 0% stars, 30d

Stars over time

2025-04-10 · 62026-07-07 · 7

Repository practices

Upstream repositoryBeta

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

Checks run against github.com/corymccartan/birdie on 2026-08-16.

Continuous integration (1)

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data-raw/

CRAN release process (1)

cran-comments.md

Docs source (1)

README.Rmd

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Dependencies

Declared dependencies

25 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Depends (1)

R >= 3.5.0

Imports (11)

rlang Rcpp cli vctrs generics dplyrmethodsstringi stringr RcppParallel SQUAREM

LinkingTo (7)

Rcpp cli BH RcppEigen (>= 0.3.3.3.0)RcppParallel RcppThread StanHeaders

Suggests (8)

daarem easycensus wru knitr roxygen2 rmarkdown rstan testthat

Enhances (0)

none

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Reverse dependencies

1direct

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redistverse

Code & Tests

Datasets

People & History

People (6)

Maintainer (1)

Cory McCartan

Author, Maintainer

Authors (1)

Cory McCartan

Author, Maintainer

Contributors (4)

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Copyright holders (1)

The Stan Development Team

Copyright holder

Package Timeline

2 releases. Pick two to compare their code metrics. R releases are shown for context.

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R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
0.7.1Latest
2025-07-24 · current release · diff ↗
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R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11
0.6.1
2024-06-11
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R 4.4.0 released · 2024-04-24

Package metadata

First published: 2024-06-11
Total releases: 2 / 2 yrs
License: GPL (>= 3) OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 3.5.0
Bundled data: 28 KB / 1 file
Download size: 1.9 MB
Installed size: not tracked yet
With dependencies: not tracked yet

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Format

McCartan, C., Development Team, T. S., Fisher, R., Goldin, J., Ho, D., & Imai, K. (2025). birdie: Bayesian Instrumental Regression for Disparity Estimation (Version 0.7.1) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.birdie

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Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for birdie version 0.7.1 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-08-18. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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