R Observatory: Metrics for rdlocrand version 3.0

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

rdlocrand

3.0Package record

Local Randomization Methods for RD Designs

0packages depend

14.4Kdownloads / year

75.5%test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

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

Provides tools to perform randomization inference for RD designs under local randomization: rdrandinf() to perform hypothesis testing using randomization inference, rdwinselect() to select a window around the cutoff in which randomization is likely to hold, rdsensitivity() to assess the sensitivity of the results to different window lengths and null hypotheses and rdrbounds() to construct Rosenbaum bounds for sensitivity to unobserved confounders. See Cattaneo, Titiunik and Vazquez-Bare (2016) https://rdpackages.github.io/references/Cattaneo-Titiunik-VazquezBare_2016_Stata.pdf for further methodological details, and references.

Install

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

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

Development version from rdpackages/rdlocrand. 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-rdlocrand

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-rdlocrand

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-rdlocrand

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: 1.2 min · r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

Status changes

OK13 OKNow
OK12 OK, 1 FAILURE2026-08-04
NOTE12 OK, 1 NOTE2026-08-01
OK13 OK2026-06-09
ERROR12 OK, 1 ERROR2026-06-08
OK14 OK2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 3.0

READMENoVignettesNoNEWSNoCitation fileNoWebsiteYes

Help pages: 5includes a package overview page
Examples that run: 100%4 run in a plain check
Exported functions with examples: 100%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 100%
Help pages citing references: 100%

How these are measured

Downloads

14.4K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #3,164 · ~39/day · ~1.2K/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

2K30 days

3.9K90 days

14.4K1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on109 r2u3 autocran151 c2d4u

How downloads are counted

Repository

rdpackages/rdlocrand ↗Organization: rdpackages

9Stars

10Forks

0Open issues

0Open PRs

1Releases

74Commits

2Commit identities

causal-inferenceprogram-evaluationregression-discontinuity-designstreatment-effects

74 commits · Last activity 2026-10-04 · +12.5% stars, 30d

Responsiveness

How these are sampled

PRs merged (all time): 90%
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed issues: 1
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed PRs: 0

Stars over time

2025-08-31 · 82026-10-10 · 9

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/rdlocrand 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)

AI coding toolsBeta

An outside contributor's pull request to this repository was written with an AI coding tool.

From outside contributors

Claude Code
Pull requests: 1 from outside contributors, first on 2026-03-11, 1 from forks

How this is detected·Detection ruleset v4 (updated 2026-09-27)

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

2 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing rdlocrand adds 62 packages (32 with compiled code, 58 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: stringi 11 MB, ggplot2 6.0 MB, doBy 4.3 MB.

Depends (1)

R >= 3.1

Imports (2)

AER sandwich

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 2.0 (2026)

Rocio Titiunik

Author

Gonzalo Vazquez-Bare

Author

Previously maintained by Gonzalo Vazquez-Bare (0.1 to 1.1).

Listed in earlier versions (1)

Cattaneo

no longer listed · 1.1 to 3.0

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Package metadata

First published: 2017-04-07
Total releases: 14 / 9 yrs
License: GPL-3 OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 3.1
Download size: 33 KB

Appears in task views

Econometrics

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("rdlocrand")

Format

Cattaneo, M. D., Titiunik, R., & Vazquez-Bare, G. (2026). rdlocrand: Local Randomization Methods for RD Designs (Version 3.0) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.rdlocrand

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Format

APA

Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for rdlocrand version 3.0 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-24. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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