R Observatory: Metrics for svycdiff version 0.2.0

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

svycdiff

0.2.0Package record

Controlled Difference Estimation for Complex Surveys

0packages depend

2.2Kdownloads / year

0.0%test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Stephen SalernoCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Website ↗Issues ↗

Estimates the population average controlled difference for a given outcome between levels of a binary treatment, exposure, or other group membership variable of interest for clustered, stratified survey samples where sample selection depends on the comparison group. Provides three methods for estimation, namely outcome modeling and two factorizations of inverse probability weighting. Under stronger assumptions, these methods estimate the causal population average treatment effect. Salerno et al., (2024) doi:10.48550/arXiv.2406.19597.

Changes in 0.2.0

**Added**: support for binary and count outcomes via generalized estimating equations
**Added**: Augmented inverse probability weighted (AIPW) estimator to main function via id_form = "DR"
**Improved**: Expanded simulation function to allow for binary and count outcomes, stratified clustered sampling, and increased parameters to specify the true propensity, selection, and outcome models.
**Updated**: Main function to be faster for larger sample sizes. Separated pieces of estimation workflow into helper functions (helpers.R) for better compartmentalization.

From NEWS.md in the release

Install

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

install.packages("svycdiff", 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("salernos/svycdiff")

Development version from salernos/svycdiff. 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-svycdiff

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-svycdiff

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-svycdiff

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: 2.3 min · r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

Status changes

OK13 OK2026-08-04
NOTE12 OK, 1 NOTE2026-08-01
OK14 OK2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

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Documentation

In release 0.2.0

READMEYes · 295 wordsVignettesYes · 1 · dynamicNEWSYes · 100% structured · mentions 0.2.0Citation fileNoWebsiteYes · pkgdown

Help pages: 3
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: 33%

Vignettes (1)

Using the svycdiff package HTML

How these are measured

Downloads

2.2K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #20,711 · ~6/day · ~182/mo

Releases R versions

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22930 days

64690 days

2.2K1 year

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Repository

salernos/svycdiff ↗Account: salernos

3Stars

1Forks

0Open issues

0Open PRs

0Releases

79Commits

1Commit identities

License file reads as GPL-3.0 · 79 commits · Last activity 2025-07-22

Responsiveness

How these are sampled

PRs merged (all time): 100%
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed issues: 0
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed PRs: 0

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

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

Checks run against github.com/salernos/svycdiff on 2026-10-22.

Continuous integration (2)

GitHub ActionsR CMD check workflow

The R CMD check workflow runs on Linux, macOS and Windows, and on R-devel

Docs source (4)

README.Rmdpkgdown

GitHub Pages site last deployed 2025-07-22 · The repository has a site deploy workflow

CRAN release process (1)

cran-comments.md

Lint, format, editor (1)

RStudio project

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

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

7 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing svycdiff adds 14 packages (7 with compiled code, 11 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: survey 2.3 MB, Rcpp 1.8 MB, betareg 1.4 MB.

Depends (1)

R >= 4.1.0

Imports (5)

MASSbetareg numDerivstatssurvey

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (4)

knitr rmarkdown markdown spelling

Enhances (0)

none

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Reverse dependencies

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People & History

People (6)

Stephen Salerno

Fan Li

Author · added in 0.2.0

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Package metadata

First published: 2024-08-20
Total releases: 2 / 2 yrs
License: GPL (>= 3) OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 4.1.0
Bundled data: 237 KB / 1 file
Download size: 4.1 MB

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Format

Salerno, S., Li, F., McCormick, T. H., Mukherjee, B., Roberts, E. K., & Shi, X. (2025). svycdiff: Controlled Difference Estimation for Complex Surveys (Version 0.2.0) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.svycdiff

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Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for svycdiff version 0.2.0 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-25. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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