R Observatory: Metrics for plm version 2.6-7

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

plm

2.6-7

Linear Models for Panel Data

70packages depend

592.9Kdownloads / year

7.2%test coverage

13/13checks pass

Overview

About

Maintained by Kevin TappeFirst published 2006-06-1369 releasesCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗

A set of estimators for models and (robust) covariance matrices, and tests for panel data econometrics, including within/fixed effects, random effects, between, first-difference, nested random effects as well as instrumental-variable (IV) and Hausman-Taylor-style models, panel generalized method of moments (GMM) and general FGLS models, mean groups (MG), demeaned MG, and common correlated effects (CCEMG) and pooled (CCEP) estimators with common factors, variable coefficients and limited dependent variables models. Test functions include model specification, serial correlation, cross-sectional dependence, panel unit root and panel Granger (non-)causality. Typical references are general econometrics text books such as Baltagi (2021), Econometric Analysis of Panel Data (doi:10.1007/978-3-030-53953-5), Hsiao (2014), Analysis of Panel Data (doi:10.1017/CBO9781139839327), and Croissant and Millo (2018), Panel Data Econometrics with R (doi:10.1002/9781119504641).

Install

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

install.packages("plm", 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("ycroissant/plm")

Development version from ycroissant/plm. 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-plm

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-plm

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-plm

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

Health

CRAN checks

13OK

Slowest check: 4.9 min · r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

Code health

Yes

Tests · ratio 0.00

7.2%

Coverage · measured lines

100%

Documentation · exports

12

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
ERROR2026-06-07
12 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 1 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
OK2026-03-10
14 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE

Documentation

READMEYes · 572 wordsVignettesYes · dynamicpkgdown siteNoNEWSYes · 67% structuredCode of conductNoContributing guideNo

Examples that run: 97%
Documented parameters: 92%
Return-value docs: 97%
References docs: 63%

Downloads

592.9K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #572 · ~1.6K/day · ~49.4K/mo

Releases R versions

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117.6K90 days

592.9K1 year

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Repository

GitHub ↗ ycroissant/plm

65Stars

15Forks

28Open issues

2Open PRs

9Releases

1,956Commits

13Contributors

License GPL-2.0 · 1,956 commits · Last activity 2026-06-25 · 0% stars, 30d

Stars over time

2026-07-14 · 642026-07-15 · 65

Repository practices

Upstream repositoryBeta

1 development-tooling and community-health practice detected across 1 family in the upstream repository

Checks run against github.com/ycroissant/plm on 2026-08-23.

Continuous integration (1)

GitHub Actions

How this is detected·Detection ruleset v1 (2026-07-18)

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

18 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Depends (1)

R >= 3.2.0

Imports (12)

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LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (10)

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Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

70direct

9indirect

and 22 more packages.

Code & Tests

Datasets

People & History

People (9)

Maintainer (1)

Kevin Tappe

Author, Maintainer · added in 1.5-12

Authors (3)

Kevin Tappe

Author, Maintainer · added in 1.5-12

Yves Croissant

Author

Giovanni Millo

Author · added in 2.5.0

Contributors (6)

Liviu Andronic

Contributor · added in 1.5-12

Arne Henningsen

Contributor · added in 3.0.3

Christian Kleiber

Contributor · added in 3.0.3

Nina Schoenfelder

Contributor · added in 1.5-12

Ott Toomet

Contributor · added in 3.0.3

Achim Zeileis

Contributor · added in 3.0.3

Listed in earlier versions (2)

Yves Croissant <yves.croissant@univ-reunion.fr

no longer listed · 2.12.0 to 1.2-6

Nina Sch<c3><b6>nfelder

no longer listed · 1.6-4

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Package metadata

First published: 2006-06-13
Total releases: 69 / 20 yrs
License: GPL (>= 2) OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 3.2.0
Bundled data: 568 KB / 14 files
Download size: 1.3 MB
Installed size: not tracked yet
With dependencies: not tracked yet

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Causal Inference Econometrics Mixed, Multilevel, and Hierarchical Models in R Handling and Analyzing Spatio-Temporal Data

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Tappe, K., Andronic, L., Croissant, Y., Henningsen, A., Kleiber, C., Millo, G., Schoenfelder, N., Toomet, O., & Zeileis, A. (2025). plm: Linear Models for Panel Data (Version 2.6-7) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.plm

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