R Observatory: Metrics for qte version 2.0.0

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

qte

2.0.0

Quantile Treatment Effects

1packages depend

5.8Kdownloads / year

50.3%test coverage

13/13checks pass

Overview

About

Maintained by Brantly CallawayFirst published 2015-05-017 releasesCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗

Provides several methods for computing the Quantile Treatment Effect (QTE) and Quantile Treatment Effect on the Treated (QTT). The main cases covered are (i) treatment is randomly assigned, (ii) treatment is as good as randomly assigned after conditioning on covariates (selection on observables) using the methods of Firpo (2007) doi:10.1111/j.1468-0262.2007.00738.x, and (iii) identification is based on a Difference in Differences assumption, with support for several varieties including Athey and Imbens (2006) doi:10.1111/j.1468-0262.2006.00668.x, Callaway and Li (2019) doi:10.3982/QE935, and Callaway, Li, and Oka (2018) doi:10.1016/j.jeconom.2018.06.008. Version 2.0 adds a unified staggered treatment adoption API (built on 'ptetools') for all DiD-based estimators, as well as a new lagged-outcome unconfoundedness estimator ('lou_qtt').

Install

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

install.packages("qte", 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("bcallaway11/qte")

Development version from bcallaway11/qte. 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-qte

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-qte

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-qte

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

Health

CRAN checks

13OK

Slowest check: 5.8 min · r-oldrel-macos-x86_64

Code health

Yes

Tests · ratio 0.13

50.3%

Coverage · measured lines

100%

Documentation · exports

9

Dependencies · direct

Check history

OK2026-08-05
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NOTE2026-08-01
12 OK · 1 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
OK2026-07-24
7 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
WARNING2026-06-12
11 OK · 0 NOTE · 2 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
OK2026-06-09
13 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE

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ERROR2026-06-07
12 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 1 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
OK2026-05-02
13 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
ERROR2026-04-25
11 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 1 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
OK2026-03-10
14 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE

Documentation

READMEYes · 512 wordsVignettesNopkgdown siteNoNEWSYes · 100% structuredCode of conductNoContributing guideNo

Examples that run: 33%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 96%
References docs: 33%

Downloads

5.8K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #8,272 · ~16/day · ~480/mo

Releases R versions

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5.8K1 year

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Repository

GitHub ↗ bcallaway11/qte

12Stars

8Forks

6Open issues

0Open PRs

0Releases

181Commits

3Contributors

181 commits · Last activity 2026-07-23 · 0% stars, 30d

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Repository practices

Upstream repositoryBeta

6 development-tooling and community-health practices detected across 5 families in the upstream repository

Checks run against github.com/bcallaway11/qte on 2026-08-23.

Continuous integration (1)

GitHub Actions

CRAN release process (2)

cran-comments.mdCRAN-SUBMISSION

Docs source (1)

README.qmd

Research and citation (1)

CITATION.cff

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RStudio project

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

Development tooling

AI-assisted toolingBeta

Uses AI-assisted development tooling (declared in repo)

Earliest detected marker: claude on 2026-05-18

claude

Most recent: claude on 2026-05-18

Evidence

claude: on 2026-05-18 · evidence B, D
agents-md: on 2026-05-18 · evidence D

How this is detected·Detection ruleset v2 (updated 2026-07-29)

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

14 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Depends (1)

R >= 3.5

Imports (9)

parallelquantreg BMisc formula.tools ggplot2 rlang pbapply data.table ptetools

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (6)

rmarkdown knitr msm testthat did quarto

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

1direct

0indirect

sccic

Code & Tests

Datasets

People & History

People (1)

Maintainer (1)

Brantly Callaway

Author, Maintainer

Authors (1)

Brantly Callaway

Author, Maintainer

Package Timeline

7 releases. Pick two to compare their code metrics. R releases are shown for context.

2.0.0Latest
2026-07-23 · current release · diff ↗
unarchivedReturned to CRAN
2026-07-23
archivedRemoved from CRAN
2026-07-16
issues were not corrected despite reminders
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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
1.3.1
2022-09-01 · diff ↗
unarchivedReturned to CRAN
2022-09-01
archivedRemoved from CRAN
2022-07-09
requires archived package 'BMisc'
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R 4.2.0 released · 2022-04-22
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R 4.1.0 released · 2021-05-18
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R 4.0.0 released · 2020-04-24
1.3.0
2019-06-10 · diff ↗
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R 3.6.0 released · 2019-04-26
1.2.2
2018-04-30 · diff ↗

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R 3.5.0 released · 2018-04-23
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R 3.4.0 released · 2017-04-21
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R 3.3.0 released · 2016-05-03
1.0.1
2015-05-01
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R 3.2.0 released · 2015-04-16

Package metadata

First published: 2015-05-01
Total releases: 7 / 11 yrs
License: GPL-3 OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 3.5
Bundled data: 29 KB / 1 file
Download size: 1.5 MB
Installed size: not tracked yet
With dependencies: not tracked yet

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Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for qte version 2.0.0 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-08-25. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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