R Observatory: Metrics for rddensity version 3.0

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

rddensity

3.0

Manipulation Testing Based on Density Discontinuity

1packages depend

34.1Kdownloads / year

47.4%test coverage

13/13checks pass

Overview

About

Maintained by Matias D. CattaneoFirst published 2017-03-1613 releasesCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗

Density discontinuity testing (a.k.a. manipulation testing) is commonly employed in regression discontinuity designs and other program evaluation settings to detect perfect self-selection (manipulation) around a cutoff where treatment/policy assignment changes. This package implements manipulation testing procedures using local polynomial density estimators: rddensity() constructs test statistics and p-values given a prespecified cutoff, rdbwdensity() performs data-driven bandwidth selection, and rdplotdensity() constructs density plots.

Install

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

install.packages("rddensity", 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("rdpackages/rddensity")

Development version from rdpackages/rddensity. 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-rddensity

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-rddensity

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-rddensity

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

Health

CRAN checks

13OK

Slowest check: 1.9 min · r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

Code health

Yes

Tests · ratio 0.24

47.4%

Coverage · measured lines

100%

Documentation · exports

2

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
OK2026-03-10
14 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE

Documentation

READMENoVignettesNopkgdown siteNoNEWSNoCode of conductNoContributing guideNo

Examples that run: 100%
Documented parameters: 97%
Return-value docs: 100%
References docs: 17%

Downloads

34.1K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #2,320 · ~93/day · ~2.8K/mo

Releases R versions

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34.1K1 year

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Repository

GitHub ↗ rdpackages/rddensity

12Stars

9Forks

0Open issues

0Open PRs

0Releases

120Commits

5Contributors

regression-discontinuity-designscausal-inferencetreatment-effectsprogram-evaluation

120 commits · Last activity 2026-08-14 · 0% stars, 30d

Stars over time

2025-07-22 · 112026-07-07 · 12

Repository practices

Upstream repositoryBeta

5 development-tooling and community-health practices detected across 4 families in the upstream repository

Checks run against github.com/rdpackages/rddensity on 2026-08-16.

Continuous integration (1)

GitHub Actions

Automation and maintenance (1)

Dependabot

Governance and community (2)

Issue templatesSecurity policy

Git structural (1)

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

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

3 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Depends (1)

R >= 3.1.0

Imports (2)

ggplot2 lpdensity

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (1)

testthat

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

1direct

0indirect

artma

Code & Tests

Datasets

People & History

People (3)

Maintainer (1)

Matias D. Cattaneo

Author, Maintainer

Authors (3)

Matias D. Cattaneo

Author, Maintainer

Michael Jansson

Author

Xinwei Ma

Author

Listed in earlier versions (1)

Cattaneo

no longer listed · 2.6

Package Timeline

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R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
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R 3.4.0 released · 2017-04-21
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R 3.3.0 released · 2016-05-03

Package metadata

First published: 2017-03-16
Total releases: 13 / 9 yrs
License: GPL-3 OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 3.1.0
Bundled data: 10 KB / 1 file
Download size: 45 KB
Installed size: not tracked yet
With dependencies: not tracked yet

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Format

Cattaneo, M. D., Jansson, M., & Ma, X. (2026). rddensity: Manipulation Testing Based on Density Discontinuity (Version 3.0) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.rddensity

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Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for rddensity version 3.0 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-08-18. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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