R Observatory: Metrics for localIV version 0.3.2

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

localIV

0.3.2Package record

Estimation of Marginal Treatment Effects using Local Instrumental Variables

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2.8Kdownloads / year

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Overview

About

Maintained by Xiang ZhouCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Issues ↗

In the generalized Roy model, the marginal treatment effect (MTE) can be used as a building block for constructing conventional causal parameters such as the average treatment effect (ATE) and the average treatment effect on the treated (ATT). Given a treatment selection equation and an outcome equation, the function mte() estimates the MTE via the semiparametric local instrumental variables method or the normal selection model. The function mte_at() evaluates MTE at different values of the latent resistance u with a given X = x, and the function mte_tilde_at() evaluates MTE projected onto the estimated propensity score. The function ace() estimates population-level average causal effects such as ATE, ATT, or the marginal policy relevant treatment effect.

Changes in 0.3.2

Fix "lost braces" note in the documentation of mte_tilde_at() (use \describe rather than \itemize for the nested list in \value).
Point BugReports to the GitHub issues page.

From NEWS.md in the release

Install

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

install.packages("localIV", 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("xiangzhou09/localIV")

Development version from xiangzhou09/localIV. 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-localiv

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-localIV

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-localIV

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: 1.3 min · r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

Status changes

OK13 OK2026-08-27
NOTE13 NOTE2026-06-09
ERROR12 NOTE, 1 ERROR2026-06-08
NOTE14 NOTE2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

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Documentation

In release 0.3.2

READMEYes · 378 wordsVignettesNoNEWSYes · 100% structured · mentions 0.3.2Citation fileNoWebsitenot declared in DESCRIPTION

Help pages: 5
Examples that run: 100%4 run in a plain check
Exported functions with examples: 100%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 100%
Help pages citing references: 60%

How these are measured

Downloads

2.8K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #12,565 · ~8/day · ~229/mo

Releases R versions

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27530 days

89790 days

2.8K1 year

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How downloads are counted

Repository

xiangzhou09/localiv ↗Account: xiangzhou09

6Stars

2Forks

1Open issues

0Open PRs

0Releases

52Commits

1Commit identities

52 commits · Last activity 2026-08-20 · 0% stars, 30d

Responsiveness

not measured

Stars over time

2025-03-30 · 62026-07-07 · 6

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

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

Checks run against github.com/xiangzhou09/localiv on 2026-10-21.

Continuous integration (2)

GitHub ActionsTravis CI (config file)

Docs source (1)

README.Rmd

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 localIV adds 68 packages (35 with compiled code, 63 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: stringi 11 MB, ggplot2 6.0 MB, doBy 4.3 MB.

Depends (1)

R >= 3.3.0

Imports (5)

KernSmoothmgcvrlang sampleSelectionstats

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (3)

dplyr ggplot2 tidyr

Enhances (0)

none

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Reverse dependencies

0direct

0indirect

Nothing depends on this yet.

How these are counted

Code & Tests

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People & History

People (1)

Xiang Zhou

Author, Maintainer since 0.1.0 (2018)

Releases (6)

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R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
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R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11
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R 4.4.0 released · 2024-04-24
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R 4.3.0 released · 2023-04-21
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R 4.2.0 released · 2022-04-22
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R 4.1.0 released · 2021-05-18
0.3.2Latest
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2020-06-26 · current release · diff ↗
0.3.1
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2020-06-26 · diff ↗
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R 4.0.0 released · 2020-04-24
0.3.0
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2020-04-01 · diff ↗ ·
removed 4 exports
average, eval_mte, eval_mte_tilde, mprte

added 5 exports
ace, mte_at, mte_localIV, mte_normal, mte_tilde_at
0.2.1
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2019-05-06 · diff ↗
0.2.0
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2019-04-28 · diff ↗ ·
added 2 exports
eval_mte, eval_mte_tilde
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R 3.6.0 released · 2019-04-26
0.1.0
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2018-08-05
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R 3.5.0 released · 2018-04-23

Package metadata

First published: 2018-08-05
Total releases: 6 / 8 yrs
License: GPL (>= 3) OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 3.3.0
Bundled data: 230 KB / 1 file
Download size: 269 KB

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("localIV")

Format

Zhou, X. (2026). localIV: Estimation of Marginal Treatment Effects using Local Instrumental Variables (Version 0.3.2) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.localIV

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 localIV version 0.3.2 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-25. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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