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estimatr

INFRA · APIS
Velocity0.0

Fast Estimators for Design-Based Inference

github.com/declaredesign/estimatr ↗

Fast design-based estimators for experiments, coasting on CRAN patches.

causal-inferenceexperimentsrobust-standard-errorseconometricsr-package
◆Current state
estimatr provides the design-based regression estimators the DeclareDesign ecosystem is built on — robust and cluster-robust standard errors, blocked and clustered randomization inference — implemented for speed rather than generality. The last three releases carry no substantive notes: each is a merge commit for a CRAN patch, one of them accompanied by a typo fix.
◆Where it's heading
Direction cannot be read from this feed. The release notes are unedited merge-commit messages, so the only signal is cadence — roughly annual, each release framed as a CRAN patch rather than as feature work. That pattern is consistent with a package whose estimators are considered finished and which now moves only when CRAN policy requires it.
◆Prediction
On the evidence here the next release is another CRAN compliance patch, but the notes are too thin to support a confident read of what the maintainers are actually working on.

◆Recent moves

  1. 1y ago

    CRAN version 1.0.4

    The release note is a bare merge-commit message for a CRAN patch branch, with no described change. Nothing here indicates user-facing movement.

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  2. 2y ago

    CRAN version 1.0.2

    Two merged pull requests: a typo fix and a CRAN patch. The auto-generated changelog gives no indication of an estimator or interface change.

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  3. 3y ago

    CRAN version 1.0.0

    The 1.0.0 milestone ships with only a merge-commit message as its release note, so what the version number is meant to signal is not recoverable from the feed. Whatever stabilizing it represents went undocumented here.

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