R Observatory: Metrics for ieTest version 2.1

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

ieTest

2.1Package record

Indirect Effects Testing Methods in Mediation Analysis

0packages depend

3.2Kdownloads / year

–test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by John KiddCRAN page ↗

Used in testing if the indirect effect from linear regression mediation analysis is equal to 0. Includes established methods such as the Sobel Test, Joint Significant test (maxP), and tests based off the distribution of the Product or Normal Random Variables. Additionally, this package adds more powerful tests based on Intersection-Union theory. These tests are the S-Test, the ps-test, and the ascending squares test. These new methods are uniformly more powerful than maxP, which is more powerful than Sobel and less anti-conservative than the Product of Normal Random Variables. These methods are explored by Kidd and Lin, (2024) doi:10.1007/s12561-023-09386-6 and Kidd et al., (2025) doi:10.1007/s10260-024-00777-7.

Install

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

install.packages("ieTest", 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-ietest

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-ieTest

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-ieTest

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: 5.3 min · r-devel-windows-x86_64

Status changes

OK13 OK2026-08-05
NOTE12 OK, 1 NOTE2026-08-01
OK12 OK2026-04-25
ERROR13 OK, 1 ERROR2026-04-17
OK14 OK2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 2.1

READMEYes · 20 wordsVignettesNoNEWSNoCitation fileNoWebsitenot declared in DESCRIPTION

Help pages: 13includes a package overview page
Examples that run: 100%12 run in a plain check
Exported functions with examples: 100%
Documented parameters: 91%
Return-value docs: 100%
Help pages citing references: 15%

How these are measured

Downloads

3.2K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #12,766 · ~9/day · ~270/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

26530 days

89090 days

3.2K1 year

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Also on367 r2u4 autocran

How downloads are counted

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

7 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing ieTest adds 5 packages (4 with compiled code, 3.4 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: Rcpp 1.8 MB, RcppArmadillo 1.0 MB, cpp11 298 KB.

Depends (6)

R >= 3.3.0grDevicesgraphicsmethodsstatsutils

Imports (4)

Rcpp RcppDist twosamplesMASS

LinkingTo (3)

Rcpp RcppArmadillo RcppDist

Suggests (1)

testthat

Enhances (0)

none

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Reverse dependencies

0direct

0indirect

Nothing depends on this yet.

How these are counted

Code & Tests

People & History

People (1)

John Kidd

Author, Maintainer since 2.0 (2025)

Releases (2)

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Package metadata

First published: 2025-04-02
Total releases: 2 / 1 yrs
License: GPL (>= 2) OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 3.3.0
Download size: 33 KB

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("ieTest")

Format

Kidd, J. (2026). ieTest: Indirect Effects Testing Methods in Mediation Analysis (Version 2.1) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.ieTest

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 ieTest version 2.1 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-25. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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