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ardlverse vs rstatix

A side-by-side editorial comparison of ardlverse and rstatix — release velocity, themes, recent moves, and the top alternatives to consider.

ardlverse vs rstatix: at a glance

Featureardlverserstatix
SectorAnalyticsAnalytics
Velocity score0.02.5
Sparks · 30d00
Top themeseconometrics, panel-data, ardl, r-packagestatistics, r, effect sizes, confidence intervals
Last editorial update47m ago3h ago
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What is ardlverse?

An outside audit against Stata found seven errors in ardlverse's panel estimator, including regressions with no intercept.

A small R package for autoregressive distributed lag models, with only three releases on record. The first two were administrative — a CRAN version note and a Zenodo metadata update. The third, 2.0.0, is a correction release built entirely from an external audit of panel_ardl() against Stata's xtpmg, and it is the only entry here with substantive content.

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What is rstatix?

rstatix hit 1.0 by unrounding every p-value it has ever returned

rstatix is the pipe-friendly test wrapper behind most ggpubr annotation workflows — t-tests, Wilcoxon, ANOVA, post-hoc comparisons, effect sizes, all returning tidy data frames. After three quiet years of CRAN-compat patching, it shipped 1.0.0 and 1.1.0 three weeks apart in mid-2026. Both releases push in the same direction: interval estimates and full-precision output for numbers the package previously rounded or omitted.

Read the full rstatix trajectory →

ardlverse vs rstatix: editorial side-by-side

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ardlverse
ANALYTICS
0.0

An outside audit against Stata found seven errors in ardlverse's panel estimator, including regressions with no intercept.

◆ Current state

A small R package for autoregressive distributed lag models, with only three releases on record. The first two were administrative — a CRAN version note and a Zenodo metadata update. The third, 2.0.0, is a correction release built entirely from an external audit of panel_ardl() against Stata's xtpmg, and it is the only entry here with substantive content.

◆ Where it's heading

The package's direction is now set by verification against an established reference implementation rather than by feature work. The seven fixes bring panel_ardl() into strict alignment with the original Pesaran, Shin and Smith framework, and the most serious of them is structural: internal regressions used lm.fit(), which unlike lm() does not append an intercept, so every short-run regression across the PMG, MG and DFE estimators was forced through the origin. Design matrices now carry a column of ones and DFE reconstructs the grand-mean intercept to match standard fixed-effects output.

◆ Prediction

Expect the next releases to extend the same audit approach to the remaining estimators, since a package that has been validated against xtpmg on one function invites the same question about the rest.

R
rstatix
ANALYTICS
2.5

rstatix hit 1.0 by unrounding every p-value it has ever returned

◆ Current state

rstatix is the pipe-friendly test wrapper behind most ggpubr annotation workflows — t-tests, Wilcoxon, ANOVA, post-hoc comparisons, effect sizes, all returning tidy data frames. After three quiet years of CRAN-compat patching, it shipped 1.0.0 and 1.1.0 three weeks apart in mid-2026. Both releases push in the same direction: interval estimates and full-precision output for numbers the package previously rounded or omitted.

◆ Where it's heading

The work is about matching what dedicated effect-size packages give you without taking on their dependencies. Confidence intervals for partial eta squared and for Cohen's d are both computed in base R from noncentral distributions and both check against effectsize; compact letter displays are computed in base R against multcompView. The pattern is deliberate — reproduce the reference implementation, add no imports. Alongside that, the package has started correcting statistical hygiene it got wrong for years, most visibly by no longer rounding p-values before adjusting them.

◆ Prediction

The analytic-interval machinery now exists for eta squared and Cohen's d; the untouched effect sizes in the package — eta squared for nonparametric tests, Cramer's V, rank-biserial correlation — are the obvious next targets for the same base-R noncentral treatment.

Alternatives to ardlverse and rstatix

Other Analytics products tracked by Sparkpulse, ranked by recent ship velocity. Each card links to a full editorial trajectory and lets you pivot into a head-to-head comparison with either ardlverse or rstatix.

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Recent activity from ardlverse and rstatix

Latest ship moves from both products, interleaved chronologically. ⚡ = editorial spark.

  1. 22d agorstatixrstatix 1.1.0 gives Cohen's d a deterministic confidence interval
  2. 1mo agorstatixrstatix 1.0.0 stops rounding p-values before adjusting them
  3. 1mo agoardlverseSeven panel_ardl fixes after an audit against Stata's xtpmg
  4. 5mo agoardlverseZenodo metadata updated with ORCID
  5. 5mo agoardlverseardlverse v1.1.3
  6. 9mo agorstatixrstatix 0.7.3
  7. 3y agorstatixrstatix 0.7.2
  8. 3y agorstatixrstatix 0.7.1
  9. 5y agorstatixrstatix 0.7.0

Frequently asked questions

What is the difference between ardlverse and rstatix?

They serve adjacent needs but don't currently overlap on shipped themes. rstatix is currently shipping more aggressively (velocity 2.5 vs 0.0), with 0 editorial sparks in the last 30 days against 0. See the at-a-glance table above for a side-by-side breakdown of velocity, recent sparks, and editorial themes.

Is ardlverse better than rstatix?

Sparkpulse doesn't pick a winner — we score release velocity, not feature parity. rstatix is currently shipping more aggressively (velocity 2.5 vs 0.0), with 0 editorial sparks in the last 30 days against 0. For your specific use case, the alternatives sections above list other Analytics products to evaluate alongside.

What are the best alternatives to ardlverse?

Top ardlverse alternatives in Analytics are ranked by recent ship velocity. Browse the "ardlverse alternatives" section above for the current picks, or visit /alternatives/ardlverse-r for the full list with editorial commentary on each.

What are the best alternatives to rstatix?

Top rstatix alternatives in Analytics are ranked by recent ship velocity. Browse the "rstatix alternatives" section above for the current picks, or visit /alternatives/rstatix for the full list with editorial commentary on each.