R Observatory: Metrics for ivmte version 1.4.0

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

ivmte

1.4.0Package record

Instrumental Variables: Extrapolation by Marginal Treatment Effects

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3.8Kdownloads / year

46.9%test coverage

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Overview

About

Maintained by Joshua SheaCRAN page ↗

The marginal treatment effect was introduced by Heckman and Vytlacil (2005) doi:10.1111/j.1468-0262.2005.00594.x to provide a choice-theoretic interpretation to instrumental variables models that maintain the monotonicity condition of Imbens and Angrist (1994) doi:10.2307/2951620. This interpretation can be used to extrapolate from the compliers to estimate treatment effects for other subpopulations. This package provides a flexible set of methods for conducting this extrapolation. It allows for parametric or nonparametric sieve estimation, and allows the user to maintain shape restrictions such as monotonicity. The package operates in the general framework developed by Mogstad, Santos and Torgovitsky (2018) doi:10.3982/ECTA15463, and accommodates either point identification or partial identification (bounds). In the partially identified case, bounds are computed using either linear programming or quadratically constrained quadratic programming. Support for four solvers is provided. Gurobi and the Gurobi R API can be obtained from http://www.gurobi.com/index. CPLEX can be obtained from https://www.ibm.com/analytics/cplex-optimizer. CPLEX R APIs 'Rcplex' and 'cplexAPI' are available from CRAN. MOSEK and the MOSEK R API can be obtained from https://www.mosek.com/. The lp_solve library is freely available from http://lpsolve.sourceforge.net/5.5/, and is included when installing its API 'lpSolveAPI', which is available from CRAN.

Install

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

install.packages("ivmte", 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-ivmte

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-ivmte

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-ivmte

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

13NOTE

Check messages

NOTERd filesr-devel-linux-x86_64-debian-clang, r-devel-linux-x86_64-debian-gcc, r-devel-linux-x86_64-fedora-clang, r-devel-linux-x86_64-fedora-gcc, r-devel-windows-x86_64, r-oldrel-macos-arm64, r-oldrel-macos-x86_64, r-oldrel-windows-x86_64, r-patched-linux-x86_64, r-release-linux-x86_64, r-release-macos-arm64, r-release-macos-x86_64, r-release-windows-x86_64

checkRd: (-1) sTsls.Rd:17: Lost braces; missing escapes or markup?
    17 | \item{pi}{the matrix E[XZ']E[ZZ']^{-1}}
       |                                   ^
checkRd: (-1) sTslsSplines.Rd:20: Lost braces; missing escapes or markup?
    20 | \item{pi}{matrix, corresponds to E[XZ']E[ZZ']^{-1}, the first stage
       |                                               ^

CRAN check page ↗

Slowest check: 26.2 min · r-release-macos-x86_64

Status changes

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Documentation

In release 1.4.0

READMEYes · 4,950 wordsVignettesYes · 1 · dynamicNEWSNoCitation fileNoWebsitenot declared in DESCRIPTION

Help pages: 122
Examples that run: 100%19 run in a plain check
Exported functions with examples: 50%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 97%
Help pages citing references: 0%

Vignettes (1)

ivmte

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Downloads

3.8K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #11,781 · ~10/day · ~313/mo

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35230 days

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3.8K1 year

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Dependencies

Declared dependencies

18 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing ivmte adds 1 package (0 with compiled code, 46 KB of source tarballs). Heaviest: Formula 46 KB.

Depends (1)

R >= 3.6.0

Imports (4)

Formulamethodsstatsutils

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none

Suggests (18)

gurobi slam cplexAPI lpSolveAPI Rmosek testthat (>= 2.0.0)data.table splines2 future.apply futureMatrixknitr rmarkdown pander AER lsei ggplot2 gridExtra

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People & History

People (2)

Joshua Shea

Author, Maintainer since 1.0.0 (2019)

Alexander Torgovitsky

Author

Releases (5)

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R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
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1.4.0Latest
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2021-09-17 · current release · diff ↗ ·
added 5 exports
optionsRmosek, qpSetup, qpSetupBound, qpSetupCriterion, qpSetupInfeasible
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R 4.1.0 released · 2021-05-18
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R 4.0.0 released · 2020-04-24
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2020-04-18 · diff ↗ ·
removed 1 export
obsEqMin

added 11 exports
criterionMin, interactSplines, lpSetupBound, lpSetupCriterion, lpSetupCriterionBoot, lpSetupInfeasible, lpSetupSolver, optionsCplexAPI, optionsGurobi, optionsLpSolveAPI, rhalton
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removed 1 export
fglsEstimate

added 1 export
gmmEstimate
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R 3.6.0 released · 2019-04-26
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R 3.5.0 released · 2018-04-23

Package metadata

First published: 2019-02-08
Total releases: 5 / 7 yrs
License: GPL-2 | GPL-3 OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 3.6.0
Bundled data: 307 KB / 2 files
Download size: 1.0 MB

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citation("ivmte")

Format

Shea, J., & Torgovitsky, A. (2021). ivmte: Instrumental Variables: Extrapolation by Marginal Treatment Effects (Version 1.4.0) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.ivmte

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Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for ivmte version 1.4.0 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-24. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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