R Observatory: Metrics for leakyIV version 0.0.1

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

leakyIV

0.0.1

Leaky Instrumental Variables

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Overview

About

Maintained by David S. WatsonFirst published 2024-04-091 releasesCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗

Instrumental variables (IVs) are a popular and powerful tool for estimating causal effects in the presence of unobserved confounding. However, classical methods rely on strong assumptions such as the exclusion criterion, which states that instrumental effects must be entirely mediated by treatments. In the so-called "leaky" IV setting, candidate instruments are allowed to have some direct influence on outcomes, rendering the average treatment effect (ATE) unidentifiable. But with limits on the amount of information leakage, we may still recover sharp bounds on the ATE, providing partial identification. This package implements methods for ATE bounding in the leaky IV setting with linear structural equations. For details, see Watson et al. (2024) doi:10.48550/arXiv.2404.04446.

Install

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

install.packages("leakyIV", 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("dswatson/leakyIV")

Development version from dswatson/leakyIV. 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-leakyiv

Fast Ubuntu binaries via r2u (no compilation). The cranapt setup runs once and is skipped when it is already enabled.

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-leakyIV

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-leakyIV

RPMs auto-built from CRAN on openSUSE OBS (Tumbleweed).

Health

CRAN checks

13OK

Slowest check: 1.6 min · r-release-macos-x86_64

Code health

None

Tests · ratio 0.00

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Coverage

100%

Documentation · exports

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Dependencies · direct

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13 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
WARNING2026-05-06
12 OK · 0 NOTE · 1 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
OK2026-03-10
14 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE

Documentation

READMENoVignettesNopkgdown siteNoNEWSYes · 67% structuredCode of conductNoContributing guideNo

Examples that run: 100%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 100%
References docs: 100%

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Repository

GitHub ↗ dswatson/leakyiv

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License GPL-3.0 · 150 commits · Last activity 2024-05-15

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Dependencies

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5 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

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Imports (6)

data.table corpcor glassoMatrixmvnfast foreach

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People & History

People (1)

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David S. Watson

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David S. Watson

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Package Timeline

1 release. R releases are shown for context.

R
R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
0.0.1Latest
2026-03-10 · current release
R
R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11

Package metadata

First published: 2024-04-09
Total releases: 1 / 2 yrs
License: GPL (>= 3) OSI
Download size: 57 KB
Installed size: not tracked yet
With dependencies: not tracked yet

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Format

Watson, D. S. (2024). leakyIV: Leaky Instrumental Variables (Version 0.0.1) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.leakyIV

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Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for leakyIV version 0.0.1 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-08-21. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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