R Observatory: Metrics for stddiff version 3.1

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

stddiff

3.1

Calculate the Standardized Difference for Numeric, Binary and Category Variables

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15.3Kdownloads / year

–test coverage

11/13checks pass

Overview

About

Maintained by Zhicheng DuFirst published 2016-06-164 releasesCRAN page ↗

Contains three main functions including stddiff.numeric(), stddiff.binary() and stddiff.category(). These are used to calculate the standardized difference between two groups. It is especially used to evaluate the balance between two groups before and after propensity score matching.

Install

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

install.packages("stddiff", 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-stddiff

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-stddiff

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-stddiff

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

Health

CRAN checks

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Failing flavors

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Slowest check: 43 s · r-devel-windows-x86_64

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Return-value docs: not tracked
References docs: 100%

Downloads

15.3K

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Rank #3,077 · ~42/day · ~1.3K/mo

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Listed in earlier versions (2)

Zhicheng Du

no longer listed · 1.0 to 3.1

Yuantao Hao

no longer listed · 1.0 to 3.1

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Package metadata

First published: 2016-06-16
Total releases: 4 / 10 yrs
License: GPL-3 OSI
Download size: 2.7 KB
Installed size: not tracked yet
With dependencies: not tracked yet

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Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for stddiff version 3.1 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-08-21. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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