R Observatory: Metrics for ovbsa version 2.1.0

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

ovbsa

2.1.0Package record

Sensitivity Analysis of Omitted Variable Bias

0packages depend

5.7Kdownloads / year

–test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Deepankar BasuCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Issues ↗

Conduct sensitivity analysis of omitted variable bias in linear econometric models using the methodology presented in Basu (2025) doi:10.2139/ssrn.4704246.

Install

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

install.packages("ovbsa", 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("dbasu-umass/ovbsa")

Development version from dbasu-umass/ovbsa. 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-ovbsa

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-ovbsa

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-ovbsa

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: 1.5 min · r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

Status changes

OK13 OK2026-08-05
NOTE12 OK, 1 NOTE2026-08-01
OK13 OK2026-06-09
WARNING12 OK, 1 WARNING2026-06-08
OK14 OK2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 2.1.0

READMEYes · 891 wordsVignettesNoNEWSYes · 67% structured · does not mention 2.1.0Citation fileNoWebsitenot declared in DESCRIPTION

Help pages: 11 (8 internal)
Examples that run: 100%11 run in a plain check (1 of them under a condition)
Exported functions with examples: 100%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 100%
Help pages citing references: 0%

How these are measured

Downloads

5.7K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #12,207 · ~16/day · ~472/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

38230 days

90790 days

5.7K1 year

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How downloads are counted

Repository

dbasu-umass/ovbsa ↗Account: dbasu-umass

0Stars

0Forks

1Open issues

0Open PRs

0Releases

Last activity 2026-09-22

Responsiveness

not measured

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/dbasu-umass/ovbsa on 2026-10-18.

Docs source (1)

README.Rmd

CRAN release process (2)

cran-comments.mdCRAN-SUBMISSION

Lint, format, editor (1)

RStudio project

How this is detected·Detection ruleset v3 (2026-09-26)

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

6 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing ovbsa adds 32 packages (17 with compiled code, 30 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: stringi 11 MB, ggplot2 6.0 MB, isoband 1.5 MB.

Depends (0)

none

Imports (6)

dplyr ggplot2 lmteststatstictoc tidyr

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (1)

sensemakr

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

0direct

0indirect

Nothing depends on this yet.

How these are counted

Code & Tests

People & History

People (1)

Deepankar Basu

Releases (2)

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Package metadata

First published: 2025-05-06
Total releases: 2 / 1 yrs
License: MIT + file LICENSE OSI
Download size: 34 KB

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("ovbsa")

Format

Basu, D. (2026). ovbsa: Sensitivity Analysis of Omitted Variable Bias (Version 2.1.0) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.ovbsa

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 ovbsa version 2.1.0 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-22. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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