falsifyr: Adversarial Robustness Attacks for Statistical Claims

Attacks fitted R model claims by searching for small plausible perturbations that make a target result disappear. The package focuses on claim-level fragility, smallest-kill reporting, and reproducible caveated robustness checks for ordinary fitted model objects. The methods draw on the fragility-index concept of Walsh et al. (2014) <doi:10.1016/j.jclinepi.2013.10.019>, multiverse analysis of Steegen et al. (2016) <doi:10.1177/1745691616658637>, specification-curve analysis of Simonsohn et al. (2020) <doi:10.1038/s41562-020-0912-z>, and robust covariance estimation of Zeileis (2004) <doi:10.18637/jss.v011.i10>.

Version: 1.0.0
Depends: R (≥ 4.1)
Imports: cli, ggplot2, parallel, rlang, stats, tibble, vctrs
Suggests: broom, knitr, lme4, lmtest, rmarkdown, rstudioapi, sandwich, shiny, survival, testthat (≥ 3.0.0)
Published: 2026-08-07
DOI: 10.32614/CRAN.package.falsifyr (may not be active yet)
Author: Markuss Saule [aut, cre, cph]
Maintainer: Markuss Saule <markusstomas at gmail.com>
BugReports: https://github.com/msaule/falsifyr/issues
License: MIT + file LICENSE
URL: https://github.com/msaule/falsifyr, https://msaule.github.io/falsifyr/
NeedsCompilation: no
Language: en-US
Materials: README, NEWS
CRAN checks: falsifyr results

Documentation:

Reference manual: falsifyr.html , falsifyr.pdf
Vignettes: Attacking a Regression Claim (source, R code)
Interpreting Survival Scores (source, R code)

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Package source: falsifyr_1.0.0.tar.gz
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