R Observatory: Metrics for clarify version 0.2.3

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

clarify

0.2.3Package record

Simulation-Based Inference for Regression Models

0packages dependsuggested by 1

37Kdownloads / year

35.8%test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Noah GreiferCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Website ↗Issues ↗

Performs simulation-based inference as an alternative to the delta method for obtaining valid confidence intervals and p-values for regression post-estimation quantities, such as average marginal effects and predictions at representative values. This framework for simulation-based inference is especially useful when the resulting quantity is not normally distributed and the delta method approximation fails. The methodology is described in Greifer, et al. (2025) doi:10.32614/RJ-2024-015. 'clarify' is meant to replace some of the functionality of the archived package 'Zelig'; see the vignette "Translating Zelig to clarify" for replicating this functionality.

Changes in 0.2.3

Fixed a bug in the parameterization of the multivariate t-distribution. Thanks to Christopher Johnston for pointing it out. Unfortunately this means all results produced by prior versions will not be perfectly reproducible when using this and future versions.
Removed *chk* as a dependency; error messages now use *arg*.
verbose is now set to FALSE by default when not in an interactive sessions.
Documentation updates.

From NEWS.md in the release

Install

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

install.packages("clarify", 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("iqss/clarify")

Development version from iqss/clarify. 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-clarify

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-clarify

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-clarify

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: 8.9 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 OK2026-04-10

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ERROR13 OK, 1 ERROR2026-04-09
OK14 OK2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 0.2.3

READMEYes · 844 wordsVignettesYes · 2 · dynamicNEWSYes · 100% structured · mentions 0.2.3Citation fileYes · cites a publicationWebsiteYes · pkgdown

Cites an R Journal article

Help pages: 11 (1 internal)includes a package overview page
Examples that run: 80%8 run in a plain check (8 of them under a condition) · 2 hold no code
Exported functions with examples: 100%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 100%
Help pages citing references: 27%

Vignettes (2)

How these are measured

Downloads

37K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #2,471 · ~101/day · ~3.1K/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

2.2K30 days

6.4K90 days

37K1 year

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How downloads are counted

Repository

iqss/clarify ↗Organization: IQSS

27Stars

4Forks

0Open issues

0Open PRs

0Releases

144Commits

2Commit identities

r

144 commits · Last activity 2025-09-19 · +3.8% stars, 30d · The default branch showed an older version (0.2.2) than CRAN on 2026-10-11

Responsiveness

How these are sampled

PRs merged (all time): 95%
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed issues: 84
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed PRs: 0

Stars over time

2024-11-19 · 242026-10-07 · 27

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

6 development-tooling and community-health practices detected across 3 families in the upstream repository

Checks run against github.com/iqss/clarify on 2026-10-11.

Continuous integration (1)

GitHub Actions

Docs source (4)

README.Rmdpkgdown

GitHub Pages site last deployed 2025-09-19 · The repository has a site deploy workflow

Lint, format, editor (1)

RStudio project

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

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

26 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing clarify adds 26 packages (10 with compiled code, 23 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: ggplot2 6.0 MB, data.table 5.7 MB, marginaleffects 1.6 MB.

Depends (1)

R >= 4.1.0

Imports (7)

arg ggplot2 pbapply cli rlang insight marginaleffects

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (22)

testthat withr MatchItparallelknitr rmarkdown AmeliaMASSbetareg survey estimatr fixest logistf geepack rms robustbase robust AER ivregmgcvsandwich WeightIt

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

0direct

0indirect

Suggested by 1

Suggests, most downloaded first

marginaleffects

How these are counted

Code & Tests

People & History

People (4)

Noah Greifer

Author, Maintainer since 0.1.0 (2023)

Stefano Iacus

Author

Gary King

Author

Steven Worthington

Author

Releases (8)

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Package metadata

First published: 2023-01-25
Total releases: 8 / 3 yrs
License: GPL (>= 3) OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 4.1.0
Download size: 1.9 MB

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' entry:

citation("clarify")

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

It points to 10.32614/rj-2024-015.

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 clarify version 0.2.3 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-18. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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