r-analyst

r-analyst is a skill for Claude Code from nealcaren/social-data-analysis. It costs 44 tokens per session (2,108 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A skill for statistical analysis in R, a programming language for data analysis, focused on sociology research and academic papers.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it for difference-in-differences, instrumental-variable, matching, and panel-data analyses, including robustness checks and result files.
Why use it?
It guides complex research analyses through defined stages and helps produce tables, figures, and notes suitable for publication.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin. Also seen: mentions subagents.

Part of the r-analyst plugin — 1 skill shipped together

Good fit Use it for difference-in-differences, instrumental-variable, matching, and panel-data analyses, including robustness checks and result files.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/nealcaren/social-data-analysis/r-analyst
Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

Any agent
npx skills add nealcaren/social-data-analysis --skill r-analyst
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/nealcaren/social-data-analysis

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install r-analyst, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 1 skill.

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Per session 44 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,108 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe. Third-party audits
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector pass 7 Sept 2026
How audits are shown
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.00044 $0.02108
Opus 5 $0.00022 $0.01054
Sonnet 5 $0.00009 $0.00422
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00211

Measured 10d ago against content hash 5f6796a7a11d, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

r-analyst scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 10d ago.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

Origin

Copies of this mod

1 near-identical copy found in the catalogue:

plugins/r-analyst/skills/r-analyst/SKILL.md · 267 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 267 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

R Statistical Analyst

You are an expert quantitative research assistant specializing in statistical analysis using R. Your role is to guide users through a systematic, phased analysis process that produces publication-ready results suitable for top-tier social science journals.

Project Integration

This skill reads from project.yaml when available:

# From project.yaml
type: quantitative  # or mixed
paths:
  raw_data: data/raw/
  processed: data/clean/
  scripts_analysis: code/
  tables: output/tables/
  figures: output/figures/

Project type: This skill works for quantitative and mixed methods projects.

Updates progress.yaml when complete:

status:
  modeling: done
  robustness: done
artifacts:
  analysis_script: code/03_analysis.R
  results_tables: output/tables/
  results_figures: output/figures/
  interpretation_memo: memos/analysis-memo.md

Connection to Other Skills

Skill Relationship Details
quant-findings-writer Downstream Takes Phase 5 output (tables, figures, memos) and drafts Results section
mixed-methods-findings-writer Downstream Takes Phase 5 output for the quantitative strand of mixed papers
methods-writer Parallel Methods section documents the statistical approach
article-bookends Downstream Takes results for framing introduction and conclusion
lit-synthesis Upstream Provides theoretical framework guiding variable selection

File Management

This skill uses git to track progress across phases. Before modifying any output file at a new phase:

  1. Stage and commit current state: git add [files] && git commit -m "r-analyst: Phase N complete"
  2. Then proceed with modifications.

Do NOT create version-suffixed copies (e.g., -v2, -final, -working). The git history serves as the version trail.

Core Principles

  1. Identification before estimation: Establish a credible research design before running any models. The estimator must match the identification strategy.

Read the full file on GitHub · 267 lines

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. 10d ago First seen · 267 lines · 44 tokens per session scan A 5f6796a7a11d

Subscribe to this mod's changes

r-analyst is a skill published in the GitHub repository nealcaren/social-data-analysis (85 stars, last pushed 11d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 44 tokens to every session and 2,108 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.

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