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Comparison · Infra & APIs
ordbetareg vs wooldridge
A side-by-side editorial comparison of ordbetareg and wooldridge — release velocity, themes, recent moves, and the top alternatives to consider.
Shared themes:r-package
ordbetareg vs wooldridge: at a glance
What is ordbetareg?
A brms wrapper for bounded outcomes that keeps handing users more control over the model's internals.
ordbetareg fits ordered beta regression — outcomes bounded at both ends, with mass at the bounds — on top of brms. Each release has opened up a layer that was previously fixed: v0.5.0 added posterior predictive checks and user-specified bounds, and v0.8 added a full prior override that makes cutpoint modeling possible, plus component-wise prediction of the bottom, middle and top of the scale.
What is wooldridge?
A textbook data package whose whole job is to stay installable, and whose releases prove how much work that is.
wooldridge ships the datasets from Wooldridge's Introductory Econometrics so students can load any of them with one command. The data has been essentially complete since the 7th-edition sets landed in 1.4-1; every release since has been about keeping the package on CRAN. The most recent tag exists only to re-run roxygen2 so that documentation URL fixes from the previous version actually reached the .Rd files.
ordbetareg vs wooldridge: editorial side-by-side
ordbetareg
0.0INFRA · APIS
A brms wrapper for bounded outcomes that keeps handing users more control over the model's internals.
◆ Current state
ordbetareg fits ordered beta regression — outcomes bounded at both ends, with mass at the bounds — on top of brms. Each release has opened up a layer that was previously fixed: v0.5.0 added posterior predictive checks and user-specified bounds, and v0.8 added a full prior override that makes cutpoint modeling possible, plus component-wise prediction of the bottom, middle and top of the scale.
◆ Where it's heading
The direction is from a convenience wrapper toward something users can take apart. The pattern across releases is the same move repeated at greater depth: what was hard-coded becomes an argument. Documentation is expanding in step, with the vignette now covering power analysis and cutpoint modeling, which suggests the audience is being taught to use the lower-level controls rather than the defaults.
◆ Prediction
Given that priors, bounds and predicted components are now all exposed, the next release most plausibly extends the diagnostic and plotting surface rather than the model itself — though releases here are more than a year apart, so timing is unpredictable.
wooldridge
0.0INFRA · APIS
A textbook data package whose whole job is to stay installable, and whose releases prove how much work that is.
◆ Current state
wooldridge ships the datasets from Wooldridge's Introductory Econometrics so students can load any of them with one command. The data has been essentially complete since the 7th-edition sets landed in 1.4-1; every release since has been about keeping the package on CRAN. The most recent tag exists only to re-run roxygen2 so that documentation URL fixes from the previous version actually reached the .Rd files.
◆ Where it's heading
The maintainer has been systematically shrinking the package's attack surface for years. Dependencies used only for vignette examples were cut after one of them broke its API and triggered a CRAN removal notice; test infrastructure moved from testthat to tinytest and from Travis and AppVeyor to GitHub Actions; datasets were compressed by stripping attributes left over from the Stata imports. The stated goal, written into the 1.4-2 notes, is that this should be the easiest package the maintainer has to look after.
◆ Prediction
Nothing in the recent entries points to new data; the next release will most likely be triggered by another CRAN check failure or by a new edition of the textbook adding datasets.
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Recent activity from ordbetareg and wooldridge
Latest ship moves from both products, interleaved chronologically. ⚡ = editorial spark.
- 1mo agowooldridgeDocs re-compiled so the previous release's URL fixes take effect
- 1y agoordbetaregManual priors unlock cutpoint modeling; new component predictions
- 3y agowooldridgeCI moved to GitHub Actions; live-data examples disabled
- 3y agowooldridgeDocumentation content and formatting pass
- 3y agoordbetaregordbetareg release v0.7.0
- 3y agoordbetaregPosterior predictive checks and user-set outcome bounds
- 4y agowooldridgeFour 7th-edition datasets added; tests moved to tinytest
- 4y agowooldridgeVignette scope cut to drop heavy and API-unstable dependencies
- 7y agowooldridgeVignette repaired after an upstream API rename
Frequently asked questions
What is the difference between ordbetareg and wooldridge?
Both compete on the same themes — r-package — within Infra & APIs. ordbetareg and wooldridge are shipping at a similar cadence (velocity 0.0 vs 0.0, both within Sparkpulse's "active" band). See the at-a-glance table above for a side-by-side breakdown of velocity, recent sparks, and editorial themes.
Is ordbetareg better than wooldridge?
Sparkpulse doesn't pick a winner — we score release velocity, not feature parity. ordbetareg and wooldridge are shipping at a similar cadence (velocity 0.0 vs 0.0, both within Sparkpulse's "active" band). For your specific use case, the alternatives sections above list other Infra & APIs products to evaluate alongside.
What are the best alternatives to ordbetareg?
Top ordbetareg alternatives in Infra & APIs are ranked by recent ship velocity. Browse the "ordbetareg alternatives" section above for the current picks, or visit /alternatives/ordbetareg for the full list with editorial commentary on each.
What are the best alternatives to wooldridge?
Top wooldridge alternatives in Infra & APIs are ranked by recent ship velocity. Browse the "wooldridge alternatives" section above for the current picks, or visit /alternatives/wooldridge for the full list with editorial commentary on each.