OVtool

1.0.3

Omitted Variable Tool

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Overview

About

Maintained by Lane BurgetteFirst published 2021-03-184 releasesCRAN page ↗

This tool was designed to assess the sensitivity of research findings to omitted variables when estimating causal effects using propensity score (PS) weighting. This tool produces graphics and summary results that will enable a researcher to quantify the impact an omitted variable would have on their results. Burgette et al. (2021) describe the methodology behind the primary function in this package, ov_sim. The method is demonstrated in Griffin et al. (2020) doi:10.1016/j.jsat.2020.108075.

Install

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

install.packages("OVtool", 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-ovtool

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-OVtool

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-OVtool

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

Health

CRAN checks

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Slowest check: 8.0 min · r-devel-linux-x86_64-fedora-clang

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Documentation

READMEYes · 5,396 wordsVignettesYes · dynamicpkgdown siteNoNEWSNoCode of conductNoContributing guideNo

Examples that run: 100%
Documented parameters: not tracked
Return-value docs: not tracked
References docs: 8%

Downloads

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CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #10,637 · ~9/day · ~279/mo

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Dependencies

Declared dependencies

19 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Depends (2)

R >= 2.10twang

Imports (17)

Amelia EnvStats devtools dplyr ggplot2 ggrepel glue magrittr metR purrr progress rlang surveystatstibble tidyselect varhandle

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rmarkdown knitr

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Maintainer (1)

Lane Burgette

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Package Timeline

4 releases. Pick two to compare their code metrics. R releases are shown for context.

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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
1.0.3Latest
2021-11-02 · current release · diff ↗
unarchivedReturned to CRAN
2021-11-02
archivedRemoved from CRAN
2021-10-06
email to the maintainer was undeliverable
1.0.2
2021-08-18 · diff ↗
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R 4.1.0 released · 2021-05-18
1.0.1
2021-04-19 · diff ↗
1.0.0
2021-03-18
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R 4.0.0 released · 2020-04-24

Package metadata

First published: 2021-03-18
Total releases: 4 / 5 yrs
License: GPL-3 OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 2.10
Bundled data: 154 KB / 1 file
Download size: 2.6 MB
Installed size: not tracked yet
With dependencies: not tracked yet

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