R Observatory: Metrics for paneltests version 1.0.6

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

paneltests

1.0.6Package record

Panel Data Pre-Testing and Diagnostic Suite

0packages depend

1.1Kdownloads / year

74.3%test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Muhammad Abdullah AlkhalafCRAN page ↗

Pre-testing and diagnostic tools for panel data analysis. Researchers should run these tests before any panel regression to verify modelling assumptions. The package implements: (1) the Hsiao (2014, <ISBN:978-1-107-65763-2>) homogeneity F-tests (F1/F2/F3), Swamy (1970) doi:10.2307/1913012 parameter heterogeneity test, and Pesaran (2004) doi:10.2139/ssrn.572504 cross-sectional dependence test via xtpretest(); (2) missing-data detection, mechanism testing, and imputation for unbalanced panels via xtmispanel(); (3) quantile-regression cross-sectional dependence tests (T_tau and T-tilde_tau statistics) of Demetrescu, Hosseinkouchack and Rodrigues (2023) via xtcsdq(); and (4) the panel quantile-regression slope homogeneity S-hat and D-hat statistics of Galvao, Juhl, Montes-Rojas and Olmo (2017) doi:10.1093/jjfinec/nbx016 via xtqsh(). Together these tests address three fundamental pre-testing questions: (i) are slopes homogeneous? (ii) is there cross-sectional dependence? and (iii) is the panel balanced and is missingness ignorable?

Changes in 1.0.6

Corrected the DOIs of Galvao, Juhl, Montes-Rojas and Olmo (2017) (10.1093/jjfinec/nbx016), Little (1988) (10.1080/01621459.1988.10478722) and Swamy (1970) (10.2307/1913012).
Demetrescu, Hosseinkouchack and Rodrigues (2023): title corrected to the published working-paper title and DOI corrected to 10.4419/96973210 (Ruhr Economic Papers 1041); the journal DOI previously given in DESCRIPTION pointed to an unrelated article and was removed.
No changes to code.

From NEWS.md in the release

Install

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

install.packages("paneltests", 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-paneltests

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-paneltests

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-paneltests

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

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Slowest check: 1.1 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
OK7 OK2026-05-05

Advisories

none known

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Documentation

In release 1.0.6

READMENoVignettesNoNEWSYes · 100% structured · mentions 1.0.6Citation fileYes · software entry onlyWebsitenot declared in DESCRIPTION

Help pages: 9
Examples that run: 50%2 run in a plain check · 2 only when donttest examples are enabled (R CMD check --as-cran)
Exported functions with examples: 100%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 100%
Help pages citing references: 44%

How these are measured

Downloads

1.1K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #22,820 · ~3/day · ~92/mo

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25630 days

58190 days

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Dependencies

Declared dependencies

4 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing paneltests adds no packages beyond those that come with R.

Depends (1)

R >= 3.5.0

Imports (2)

statsutils

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (4)

testthat plm zoo quantreg

Enhances (0)

none

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People (1)

Muhammad Abdullah Alkhalaf

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R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24

Package metadata

First published: 2026-05-04
Total releases: 2 / 1 yrs
License: GPL-3 OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 3.5.0
Bundled data: 45 KB / 1 file
Download size: 73 KB

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Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for paneltests version 1.0.6 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-25. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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