R Observatory: Metrics for CBPS version 0.24

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

CBPS

0.24Package record

Covariate Balancing Propensity Score

4packages dependsuggested by 4

59.7Kdownloads / year

18.0%test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Christian FongCRAN page ↗

Implements the covariate balancing propensity score (CBPS) proposed by Imai and Ratkovic (2014) DOI:10.1111/rssb.12027. The propensity score is estimated such that it maximizes the resulting covariate balance as well as the prediction of treatment assignment. The method, therefore, avoids an iteration between model fitting and balance checking. The package also implements optimal CBPS from Fan et al. (in-press) DOI:10.1080/07350015.2021.2002159, several extensions of the CBPS beyond the cross-sectional, binary treatment setting. They include the CBPS for longitudinal settings so that it can be used in conjunction with marginal structural models from Imai and Ratkovic (2015) DOI:10.1080/01621459.2014.956872, treatments with three- and four-valued treatment variables, continuous-valued treatments from Fong, Hazlett, and Imai (2018) DOI:10.1214/17-AOAS1101, propensity score estimation with a large number of covariates from Ning, Peng, and Imai (2020) DOI:10.1093/biomet/asaa020, and the situation with multiple distinct binary treatments administered simultaneously. In the future it will be extended to other settings including the generalization of experimental and instrumental variable estimates.

Install

R (CRAN)Ubuntu (r2u)Fedora (COPR)openSUSE (OBS)

install.packages("CBPS", repos = "https://cloud.r-project.org/")

Installs the current CRAN release. Prebuilt binaries on Windows and macOS.

Release

# enable cranapt (r2u) if it is not already set up, then install
grep -rqs r2u.stat.illinois.edu /etc/apt/sources.list /etc/apt/sources.list.d/ \
  || curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/eddelbuettel/r2u/master/inst/scripts/add_cranapt_noble.sh | sudo bash
sudo apt install -y r-cran-cbps

Fast Ubuntu binaries via r2u (no compilation). The cranapt setup runs once and is skipped when it is already enabled. We list this channel from recorded r2u download activity rather than from a live index of the repository, so treat it as last known rather than guaranteed.

bspm (used by r2u) also needs make: sudo apt install make

# enable the iucar/cran COPR if it is not already present, then install
ls /etc/yum.repos.d/*iucar*cran*.repo >/dev/null 2>&1 \
  || sudo dnf copr enable -y iucar/cran
sudo dnf install -y R-CRAN-CBPS

RPMs from the iucar/cran COPR, rebuilt from CRAN.

For install.packages() integration in R, also: sudo dnf install R-CoprManager

# add the autoCRAN OBS repo (Tumbleweed) if it is missing, then install
zypper -q lr | grep -qi autoCRAN \
  || sudo zypper addrepo https://download.opensuse.org/repositories/devel:/languages:/R:/autoCRAN/openSUSE_Tumbleweed/devel:languages:R:autoCRAN.repo
sudo zypper install -y R-CBPS

RPMs auto-built from CRAN on openSUSE OBS (Tumbleweed). We list this channel from recorded autoCRAN download activity rather than from a live index of the repository, so treat it as last known rather than guaranteed.

Health

CRAN checks

13OK

CRAN check page ↗

Slowest check: 2.6 min · r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

Status changes

OK13 OK2026-08-05
NOTE12 OK, 1 NOTE2026-08-01
OK14 OK2026-04-10
ERROR13 OK, 1 ERROR2026-04-09
OK14 OK2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

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Documentation

In release 0.24

READMENoVignettesNoNEWSNoCitation fileNoWebsitenot declared in DESCRIPTION

Help pages: 24
Examples that run: 100%8 run in a plain check
Exported functions with examples: 78%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 100%
Help pages citing references: 38%

How these are measured

Downloads

59.7K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #1,720 · ~164/day · ~5K/mo

Releases R versions

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5.1K30 days

12.2K90 days

59.7K1 year

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Also on291 r2u21 autocran93 c2d4u

How downloads are counted

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

4 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing CBPS adds 12 packages (6 with compiled code, 10 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: glmnet 2.7 MB, Rcpp 1.8 MB, MatchIt 1.7 MB.

Depends (6)

R >= 3.4MASSMatchItnnetnumDeriv glmnet

Imports (0)

none

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (1)

testthat

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

4direct

0indirect

Imports 4

Suggested by 4

Depends, Imports or LinkingTo, most downloaded first

PanelMatch causalOT mvGPS CERFIT

Suggests, most downloaded first

MatchIt cobalt WeightIt causal.decomp

How these are counted

Code & Tests

Datasets

People & History

People (7)

Christian Fong

Author, Maintainer since 0.9 (2014)

Kosuke Imai

Author

Marc Ratkovic

Author

Chad Hazlett

Contributor · added in 0.10

Inbeom Lee

Contributor · added in 0.23

Sida Peng

Contributor · added in 0.14

Xiaolin Yang

Contributor · added in 0.11

Previously maintained by Marc Ratkovic (0.1 to 0.8).

Releases (24)

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R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
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R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11
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R 4.4.0 released · 2024-04-24
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R 4.3.0 released · 2023-04-21
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R 4.2.0 released · 2022-04-22
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AsyVar
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R 4.1.0 released · 2021-05-18
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R 4.0.0 released · 2020-04-24
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R 3.6.0 released · 2019-04-26
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R 3.5.0 released · 2018-04-23
unarchivedReturned to CRAN
2018-03-10

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unarchivedReturned to CRAN
2018-01-29
, but the same errors were still present so archived again on 2018-01-31
archivedRemoved from CRAN
2018-01-25
check errors (without long-double, alternative BLASes) were not corrected despite reminders
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summary.CBPS

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CBPS.fit
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added 3 exports
hdCBPS, CBIV, vcov_outcome
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R 3.4.0 released · 2017-04-21
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R 3.3.0 released · 2016-05-03
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npCBPS
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R 3.2.0 released · 2015-04-16
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removed 3 exports
IPW, DR, MSMdata

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CBMSM
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R 3.1.0 released · 2014-04-10
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balance
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R 3.0.0 released · 2013-04-03
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2012-09-29 · diff ↗ ·
removed 2 exports
CBPSlogit, summary.CBPSlogit

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CBPS, summary.CBPS, IPW, DR
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2012-07-19
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R 2.15.0 released · 2012-03-30

Package metadata

First published: 2012-07-19
Total releases: 24 / 14 yrs
License: GPL (>= 2) OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 3.4
Bundled data: 42 KB / 2 files
Download size: 108 KB

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Causal Inference

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Format

Fong, C., Hazlett, C., Imai, K., Lee, I., Peng, S., Ratkovic, M., & Yang, X. (2025). CBPS: Covariate Balancing Propensity Score (Version 0.24) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.CBPS

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Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for CBPS version 0.24 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-20. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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