R Observatory: Metrics for rdpower version 3.0

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

rdpower

3.0Package record

Power, Sample Size, and Minimum Detectable Effect Calculations for RD Designs

0packages depend

11.5Kdownloads / year

–test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Matias D. CattaneoCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Issues ↗

The regression discontinuity (RD) design is a popular quasi-experimental design for causal inference and policy evaluation. The 'rdpower' package provides tools to perform power, sample size, and minimum detectable effect calculations in RD designs: rdpower() calculates the power of an RD design, rdsampsi() calculates the required sample size to achieve a desired power, and rdmde() calculates minimum detectable effects. See Cattaneo, Titiunik and Vazquez-Bare (2019) https://rdpackages.github.io/references/Cattaneo-Titiunik-VazquezBare_2019_Stata.pdf for further methodological details.

Install

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

install.packages("rdpower", 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/rdpower")

Development version from rdpackages/rdpower. 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-rdpower

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-rdpower

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-rdpower

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

CRAN check page ↗

Slowest check: 55 s · r-devel-windows-x86_64

Status changes

OK13 OK2026-08-05
NOTE12 OK, 1 NOTE2026-08-01
OK13 OK2026-05-22
ERROR12 OK, 1 ERROR2026-05-20
OK13 OK2026-05-19

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ERROR11 OK, 2 ERROR2026-05-17
OK14 OK2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 3.0

READMENoVignettesNoNEWSNoCitation fileNoWebsitenot declared in DESCRIPTION

Help pages: 5includes a package overview page
Examples that run: 100%3 run in a plain check
Exported functions with examples: 100%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 100%
Help pages citing references: 80%

How these are measured

Downloads

11.5K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #3,372 · ~32/day · ~962/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

1.7K30 days

3.3K90 days

11.5K1 year

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Also on105 r2u3 autocran129 c2d4u

How downloads are counted

Repository

rdpackages/rdpower ↗Organization: rdpackages

4Stars

3Forks

1Open PRs

0Releases

46Commits

2Commit identities

regression-discontinuity-designscausal-inferenceprogram-evaluationtreatment-effects

46 commits · Last activity 2026-08-14

Responsiveness

How these are sampled

PRs merged (all time): 100%
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed issues: not measured
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed PRs: 0

Stars over time

2024-12-24 · 42026-07-07 · 4

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

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

Checks run against github.com/rdpackages/rdpower on 2026-10-22.

Continuous integration (2)

GitHub ActionsR CMD check workflow

The R CMD check workflow runs on Linux

Governance and community (3)

Issue templatesPR templateSecurity policy

Automation and maintenance (1)

Dependabot

Git structural (1)

.gitattributes

How this is detected·Detection ruleset v4 (2026-10-20)

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

1 external dependency (excludes base and recommended)

Installing rdpower adds 18 packages (7 with compiled code, 14 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: ggplot2 6.0 MB, isoband 1.5 MB, farver 1.2 MB.

Depends (1)

R >= 3.6.0

Imports (1)

rdrobust

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (0)

none

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

0direct

0indirect

Nothing depends on this yet.

How these are counted

Code & Tests

People & History

People (3)

Matias D. Cattaneo

Author, Maintainer since 3.0 (2026)

Rocio Titiunik

Author

Gonzalo Vazquez-Bare

Author

Previously maintained by Gonzalo Vazquez-Bare (0.1 to 2.3).

Listed in earlier versions (1)

Cattaneo

no longer listed · 2.3 to 3.0

Releases (11)

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2026-05-17 · current release · diff ↗
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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
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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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2020-12-18 · diff ↗ ·
added 1 export
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2020-08-26 · diff ↗
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R 4.0.0 released · 2020-04-24
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2019-10-28 · diff ↗
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R 3.6.0 released · 2019-04-26

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2018-08-22 · diff ↗
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2018-07-13 · 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

Package metadata

First published: 2018-03-23
Total releases: 11 / 8 yrs
License: GPL-3 OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 3.6.0
Download size: 15 KB

Appears in task views

Econometrics

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("rdpower")

Format

Cattaneo, M. D., Titiunik, R., & Vazquez-Bare, G. (2026). rdpower: Power, Sample Size, and Minimum Detectable Effect Calculations for RD Designs (Version 3.0) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.rdpower

This package has no citation file, so citation() returns this entry built from DESCRIPTION.

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For a number measured here: a download total, a coverage figure, an archival date.

Format

APA

Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for rdpower version 3.0 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-23. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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