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R Templates

Drop-in scripts for an AEA-compliant R pipeline using the modern stack (fixest, did, modelsummary).

Files

File Purpose
run_all.R Master script. Runs the full pipeline end-to-end.
00_setup.R Paths, packages, seed, plot theme.
01_clean.R Placeholder cleaning stage; replace with raw-to-analytic code.
02_descriptives.R Summary-statistics scaffold.
03_main_did.R Callaway-Sant'Anna DiD + Bacon + Honest DiD.
04_robustness.R Placeholder robustness stage.
05_heterogeneity.R Placeholder heterogeneity stage.
06_tables.R AER-style booktabs table via fixest::etable.
07_figures.R Placeholder figure stage.

Conventions Enforced

  • set.seed(20260101) in 00_setup.R
  • Relative paths via PROJECT <- getwd() and file.path(...)
  • Output goes to output/tables and output/figures
  • Optional renv lock for full package-version pinning
  • cairo_pdf device for vector figures (publication-ready)

How to Adapt

  1. Run python3 scripts/scaffold_project.py r /path/to/project from the AER-skills repository, or copy the contents of templates/r/ into your project root
  2. Open the project root in RStudio (so getwd() is correct)
  3. renv::restore() if you maintain a lockfile
  4. source("run_all.R")

The placeholder stages are intentionally conservative. 01_clean.R stops with a clear message until you either write data/intermediate/analytic.dta or replace it with project-specific cleaning code.

Package Stack

  • fixest — feols, etable. AER-style tables out of the box.
  • did — Callaway-Sant'Anna ATT(g,t), aggregations, event study
  • HonestDiD — Rambachan-Roth pre-trends sensitivity
  • rdrobust + rddensity — modern RDD
  • modelsummary — flexible table backend (kableExtra / gt / LaTeX)
  • fwildclusterboot — wild cluster bootstrap for few-cluster inference