R Observatory: Metrics for rdrobust version 4.1.1

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

rdrobust

4.1.1Package record

Robust Data-Driven Statistical Inference in Regression-Discontinuity Designs

10packages dependsuggested by 3

91.2Kdownloads / year

69.0%test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Sebastian CalonicoCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Issues ↗

Regression-discontinuity (RD) designs are quasi-experimental research designs popular in social, behavioral and natural sciences. The RD design is usually employed to study the (local) causal effect of a treatment, intervention or policy. This package provides tools for data-driven graphical and analytical statistical inference in RD designs: rdrobust() to construct local-polynomial point estimators and robust confidence intervals for average treatment effects at the cutoff in Sharp, Fuzzy and Kink RD settings, rdbwselect() to perform bandwidth selection for the different procedures implemented, and rdplot() to conduct exploratory data analysis (RD plots).

Install

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

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

Development version from rdpackages/rdrobust. 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-rdrobust

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-rdrobust

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-rdrobust

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 OK2026-08-05
NOTE12 OK, 1 NOTE2026-08-01
OK14 OK2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 4.1.1

READMENoVignettesNoNEWSNoCitation fileNoWebsitenot declared in DESCRIPTION

Help pages: 6includes 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: 83%

How these are measured

Downloads

91.2K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #1,310 · ~250/day · ~7.6K/mo

Releases R versions

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9K30 days

22.5K90 days

91.2K1 year

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Also on542 r2u4 autocran133 c2d4u

How downloads are counted

Repository

rdpackages/rdrobust ↗Organization: rdpackages

99Stars

42Forks

0Open issues

1Open PRs

0Releases

150Commits

3Commit identities

regression-discontinuity-designscausal-inferenceprogram-evaluationtreatment-effects

150 commits · Last activity 2026-10-07 · +1% stars, 30d

Responsiveness

How these are sampled

PRs merged (all time): 57%
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed issues: 75
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed PRs: 5

Stars over time

2025-08-23 · 842026-09-24 · 99

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

6 development-tooling and community-health practices detected across 3 families in the upstream repository

Checks run against github.com/rdpackages/rdrobust 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

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

AI coding toolsBeta

This repository shows signs of AI coding tools.

Claude Codefirst seen 2026-05-27
Pull request it wrote: opened by a project member
Commits: at least 23 crediting it in the message

Models named in its commits

Claude Opus 58 commits · Aug 2026
Claude Opus 5.58 commits · Oct 2026
Claude Fable 54 commits · Aug 2026
Claude Opus 4.72 commits · May 2026
Claude Fable 5.11 commit · Oct 2026

Counts are commits, not lines of code. Commits by a tool's accounts count once across all of its accounts. Commits crediting it are the largest count among its credit lines, a minimum.How this is detected·Detection ruleset v4 (updated 2026-09-27)

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

4 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing rdrobust adds 17 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 (2)

ggplot2MASS

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (3)

broom gridExtra testthat

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

10direct

0indirect

Imports 10

Suggested by 3

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Depends, Imports or LinkingTo, most downloaded first

rdpower rddtools rdmulti rdhte MIRDD SpatialRDD rdlearn causalQual hdthreshold rdstagger

Suggests, most downloaded first

grf DeclareDesign rdss

How these are counted

Code & Tests

Datasets

People & History

People (4)

Sebastian Calonico

Author, Maintainer since 0.5 (2014)

Matias D. Cattaneo

Author

Max H. Farrell

Author · added in 0.90

Rocio Titiunik

Author

Listed in earlier versions (3)

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Calonico

no longer listed · 3.0.0 to 4.1.1

Cattaneo

no longer listed · 3.0.0 to 4.1.1

Farrell

no longer listed · 3.0.0 to 4.1.1

Releases (42)

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Package metadata

First published: 2014-06-08
Total releases: 42 / 12 yrs
License: GPL-3 OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 3.6.0
Bundled data: 35 KB / 1 file
Download size: 102 KB

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Causal Inference Econometrics

Cite

Cite this package

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citation("rdrobust")

Format

Calonico, S., Cattaneo, M. D., Farrell, M. H., & Titiunik, R. (2026). rdrobust: Robust Data-Driven Statistical Inference in Regression-Discontinuity Designs (Version 4.1.1) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.rdrobust

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Format

APA

Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for rdrobust version 4.1.1 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-23. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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