R Observatory: Metrics for dScoreTest version 1.0.0

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

dScoreTest

1.0.0Package record

Debiased Score Tests for Goodness of Fit and Model Comparison

0packages depend

491downloads / year

80.8%test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by F. Richard GuoCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Website ↗Issues ↗

Debiased (Neyman-orthogonalized) score tests for assessing whether a semiparametric or parametric regression model is well-specified and for comparing nested models. The test employs a hunt-and-test strategy: on a held-out hunt sample, it fits the null model and uses machine learning to find a direction in which the null model's score seems positive; on an independent test sample, it assesses the significance of the score in the hunted direction. The test employs orthogonalization to eliminate the bias from estimating the null model, yielding a test statistic that is asymptotically standard normal under the null without requiring a parametric form for the alternative. Methods are provided for 'glm', 'lm' and 'mgcv::gam' fits as well as for detecting heterogeneous treatment effects. The methodology is described in Dhawan, Guo and Shah (2026) doi:10.48550/arXiv.2607.28861.

Changes in 1.0.0

Added a citation for the method paper, Dhawan, Guo and Shah (2026), <arXiv:2607.28861>.
Added more examples.

From NEWS.md in the release

Install

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

install.packages("dScoreTest", 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("richardkwo/dScoreTest")

Development version from richardkwo/dScoreTest. 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-dscoretest

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-dScoreTest

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-dScoreTest

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: 1.9 min · r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

Status changes

OK13 OKNow
OK9 OK2026-09-04

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 1.0.0

READMEYes · 394 wordsVignettesYes · 1 · dynamicNEWSYes · 100% structured · mentions 1.0.0Citation fileYes · software entry onlyWebsiteYes · pkgdown

The repository also keeps web-only articles.

Help pages: 23 (1 internal)includes a package overview page
Examples that run: 100%11 run in a plain check
Exported functions with examples: 45%
Documented parameters: 90%
Return-value docs: 100%
Help pages citing references: 26%

Vignettes (1)

Getting started with dScoreTest HTML

How these are measured

Downloads

491

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #24,563 · ~1/day · ~41/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

19330 days

49190 days

4911 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on7 r2u3 autocran

How downloads are counted

Repository

richardkwo/dscoretest ↗Account: richardkwo

0Stars

0Forks

0Open issues

0Open PRs

1Releases

25Commits

1Commit identities

25 commits · Last activity 2026-08-05

Responsiveness

not measured

Commits over time

2026-09-06 · 252026-09-15 · 25

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

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

Checks run against github.com/richardkwo/dscoretest on 2026-10-22.

Docs source (3)

README.Rmdpkgdown

GitHub Pages site last deployed 2026-08-05

pkgdown site last built 2026-08-05, before release 1.0.0 (2026-09-02)

CRAN release process (1)

cran-comments.md

Lint, format, editor (1)

RStudio project

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

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

5 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing dScoreTest adds 7 packages (6 with compiled code, 6.5 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: Rcpp 1.8 MB, RcppEigen 1.7 MB, sandwich 1.4 MB.

Depends (0)

none

Imports (2)

grfmgcv

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (4)

knitr rmarkdown speff2trial 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 (2)

F. Richard Guo

Aditya Dhawan

Author

Releases (1)

1.0.0Latest
record
2026-09-02 · current release
R
R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24

Package metadata

First published: 2026-09-02
Total releases: 1 / 1 yrs
License: MIT + file LICENSE OSI
Download size: 263 KB

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' entry:

citation("dScoreTest")

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

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 dScoreTest version 1.0.0 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-25. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

From data release v2026-10-25, which the citation names so these numbers can be found later. More on citing and the projects behind them.

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