R Observatory: Metrics for dstat version 1.0.4

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

dstat

1.0.4Package record

Conditional Sensitivity Analysis for Matched Observational Studies

0packages depend

2.6Kdownloads / year

–test coverage

11/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Paul R. RosenbaumCRAN page ↗

A d-statistic tests the null hypothesis of no treatment effect in a matched, nonrandomized study of the effects caused by treatments. A d-statistic focuses on subsets of matched pairs that demonstrate insensitivity to unmeasured bias in such an observational study, correcting for double-use of the data by conditional inference. This conditional inference can, in favorable circumstances, substantially increase the power of a sensitivity analysis (Rosenbaum (2010) doi:10.1007/978-1-4419-1213-8_14). There are two examples, one concerning unemployment from Lalive et al. (2006) doi:10.1111/j.1467-937X.2006.00406.x, the other concerning smoking and periodontal disease from Rosenbaum (2017) doi:10.1214/17-STS621.

Install

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

install.packages("dstat", repos = "https://cloud.r-project.org/")

Installs the current CRAN release. Prebuilt binaries on Windows and macOS.

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-dstat

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-dstat

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-dstat

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

2NOTE11OK

Check messages

NOTECRAN incoming feasibilityr-devel-linux-x86_64-debian-clang, r-devel-linux-x86_64-debian-gcc

Maintainer: ‘Paul R. Rosenbaum <rosenbaum@wharton.upenn.edu>’

No Authors@R field in DESCRIPTION.
Please add one, modifying
  Authors@R: person(given = c("Paul", "R."),
                    family = "Rosenbaum",
                    role = c("aut", "cre"),
                    email = "rosenbaum@wharton.upenn.edu")
as necessary.

CRAN check page ↗

Slowest check: 46 s · r-devel-windows-x86_64

Status changes

NOTE11 OK, 2 NOTENow
NOTE12 OK, 2 NOTE2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 1.0.4

READMENoVignettesNoNEWSNoCitation fileNoWebsitenot declared in DESCRIPTION

Help pages: 5includes a package overview page
Examples that run: 100%5 run in a plain check
Exported functions with examples: 100%
Documented parameters: not tracked
Return-value docs: not tracked
Help pages citing references: 100%

How these are measured

Downloads

2.6K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #18,179 · ~7/day · ~218/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

24430 days

71890 days

2.6K1 year

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Also on90 r2u17 autocran84 c2d4u

How downloads are counted

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

0 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing dstat adds no packages beyond those that come with R.

Depends (0)

none

Imports (1)

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LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (0)

none

Enhances (0)

none

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Reverse dependencies

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Nothing depends on this yet.

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People & History

People (from the free-text Author field) (1)

Paul R. Rosenbaum

Maintainer since 1.0.4 (2019)

Releases (1)

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1.0.4Latest
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2019-04-16 · current release
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R 3.5.0 released · 2018-04-23

Package metadata

First published: 2019-04-16
Total releases: 1 / 7 yrs
License: GPL-2 OSI
Bundled data: 72 KB / 2 files
Download size: 87 KB

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citation("dstat")

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Format

APA

Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for dstat version 1.0.4 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-25. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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