rd2d

1.0.0

Estimation and Inference for Boundary Discontinuity Designs

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Overview

About

Maintained by Matias D. CattaneoFirst published 2025-05-146 releasesCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗

Provides pointwise and uniform estimation and inference methods for boundary discontinuity (BD) designs, a causal inference design that generalizes univariate regression discontinuity (RD) designs to settings with bivariate scores. Implements local polynomial methods for location-based and distance-based analyses, including sharp and fuzzy designs, data-driven bandwidth selection, pointwise confidence intervals, and uniform confidence bands. Methodology is developed in Cattaneo, Titiunik, and Yu (2026) doi:10.48550/arXiv.2505.05670 for location-based methods and Cattaneo, Titiunik, and Yu (2026) doi:10.48550/arXiv.2510.26051 for distance-based methods. For an overview and empirical guidance, see Cattaneo, Titiunik, and Yu (2026) doi:10.48550/arXiv.2511.06474. The companion software article is Cattaneo, Titiunik, and Yu (2025) doi:10.48550/arXiv.2505.07989.

Install

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

install.packages("rd2d", 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/rd2d")

Development version from rdpackages/rd2d. 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-rd2d

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-rd2d

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-rd2d

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

Health

CRAN checks

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Slowest check: 3.9 min · r-devel-linux-x86_64-fedora-clang

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Documentation

READMENoVignettesNopkgdown siteNoNEWSYes · 100% structuredCode of conductNoContributing guideNo

Examples that run: 100%
Documented parameters: 90%
Return-value docs: 100%
References docs: 29%

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Repository

GitHub ↗ rdpackages/rd2d

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61 commits · Last activity 2026-07-08

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Matias D. Cattaneo

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Rocio Titiunik

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Ruiqi Rae Yu

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R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11

Package metadata

First published: 2025-05-14
Total releases: 6 / 1 yrs
License: GPL-3 OSI
Download size: 47 KB
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