R Observatory: Metrics for ovbsa version 2.0.0

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

ovbsa

2.0.0

Sensitivity Analysis of Omitted Variable Bias

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Overview

About

Maintained by Deepankar BasuFirst published 2025-05-061 releasesCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗

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.

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).

Health

CRAN checks

13OK

Slowest check: 1.5 min · r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

Code health

None

Tests · ratio 0.00

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Coverage

100%

Documentation · exports

4

Dependencies · direct

Check history

OK2026-08-05
13 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
NOTE2026-08-01
12 OK · 1 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
OK2026-06-09
13 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
WARNING2026-06-08
12 OK · 0 NOTE · 1 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
OK2026-03-10
14 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE

Documentation

READMEYes · 642 wordsVignettesNopkgdown siteNoNEWSYes · 100% structuredCode of conductNoContributing guideNo

Examples that run: 100%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 100%
References docs: 0%

Downloads

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Repository

GitHub ↗ dbasu-umass/ovbsa

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Last activity 2026-08-16

Repository practices

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Checks run against github.com/dbasu-umass/ovbsa on 2026-08-23.

CRAN release process (2)

cran-comments.mdCRAN-SUBMISSION

Docs source (1)

README.Rmd

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Dependencies

Declared dependencies

4 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Depends (0)

none

Imports (4)

dplyr lmteststatstidyr

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none

Suggests (1)

sensemakr

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Code & Tests

People & History

People (1)

Maintainer (1)

Deepankar Basu

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Authors (1)

Deepankar Basu

Author, Maintainer, Copyright holder

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Deepankar Basu

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Package Timeline

1 release. R releases are shown for context.

R
R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
2.0.0Latest
2026-03-10 · current release
R
R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11

Package metadata

First published: 2025-05-06
Total releases: 1 / 1 yrs
License: MIT + file LICENSE OSI
Download size: 21 KB
Installed size: not tracked yet
With dependencies: not tracked yet

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("ovbsa")

Format

Basu, D. (2025). ovbsa: Sensitivity Analysis of Omitted Variable Bias (Version 2.0.0) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.ovbsa

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Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for ovbsa version 2.0.0 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-08-23. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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