R Observatory: Metrics for MatchThem version 1.2.1

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

MatchThem

1.2.1Package record

Matching and Weighting Multiply Imputed Datasets

0packages dependsuggested by 2

41.5Kdownloads / year

–test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Farhad PishgarCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Issues ↗

Provides essential tools for the pre-processing techniques of matching and weighting multiply imputed datasets. The package includes functions for matching within and across multiply imputed datasets using various methods, estimating weights for units in the imputed datasets using multiple weighting methods, calculating causal effect estimates in each matched or weighted dataset using parametric or non-parametric statistical models, and pooling the resulting estimates according to Rubin's rules (please see https://journal.r-project.org/archive/2021/RJ-2021-073/ for more details).

Changes in 1.2.1

Support for using glm_weightit() in the outcome model after weighting using weightthem() is added.

From NEWS.md in the release

Install

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

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

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

if (!requireNamespace("pak", quietly = TRUE))
  install.packages("pak", repos = "https://cloud.r-project.org/")
pak::pak("FarhadPishgar/MatchThem")

Development version from FarhadPishgar/MatchThem. Installs pak first if it is not already available.

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-matchthem

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-MatchThem

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-MatchThem

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: 3.2 min · r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

Status changes

OK13 OK2026-09-08
ERROR12 OK, 1 ERROR2026-09-07
OK13 OK2026-08-05
NOTE12 OK, 1 NOTE2026-08-01
OK13 OK2026-06-09

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ERROR12 OK, 1 ERROR2026-06-08
OK13 OK2026-05-02
ERROR11 OK, 1 ERROR2026-04-25
OK14 OK2026-04-10
ERROR13 OK, 1 ERROR2026-04-09
OK14 OK2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 1.2.1

READMEYes · 509 wordsVignettesYes · 2 · staticNEWSYes · 67% structured · mentions 1.2.1Citation fileYes · cites a publicationWebsitenot declared in DESCRIPTION

Cites an R Journal article

Help pages: 18
Examples that run: 15%2 run in a plain check · 11 only when donttest examples are enabled (R CMD check --as-cran)
Exported functions with examples: 100%
Documented parameters: 96%
Return-value docs: 100%
Help pages citing references: 50%

Vignettes (2)

How these are measured

Downloads

41.5K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #2,300 · ~114/day · ~3.5K/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

2.5K30 days

7.3K90 days

41.5K1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on101 r2u6 autocran413 conda_forge105 c2d4u

How downloads are counted

Repository

farhadpishgar/matchthem ↗Account: FarhadPishgar

20Stars

3Forks

11Open issues

1Open PRs

2Releases

335Commits

3Commit identities

335 commits · Last activity 2024-10-24 · 0% stars, 30d · Default branch at 1.2.2, ahead of CRAN 1.2.1 (checked 2026-10-18)

Responsiveness

How these are sampled

PRs merged (all time): 86%
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed issues: 8
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed PRs: 2

Stars over time

2025-07-23 · 192026-07-07 · 20

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

Checks run against github.com/farhadpishgar/matchthem on 2026-10-18.

No development-tooling practices detected in the upstream repository.

How this is detected·Detection ruleset v3 (2026-09-26)

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

8 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing MatchThem adds 74 packages (38 with compiled code, 63 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: stringi 11 MB, ggplot2 6.0 MB, lme4 4.1 MB.

Depends (1)

R >= 3.6.0

Imports (5)

MatchIt mice rlang survey WeightIt

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (3)

Amelia cobalt R.rsp

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

0direct

0indirect

Suggested by 2

Suggests, most downloaded first

cobalt adrftools

How these are counted

Code & Tests

Datasets

People & History

People (4)

Farhad Pishgar

Author, Maintainer since 0.8.1 (2019)

Noah Greifer

Author · added in 0.9.0

Clémence Leyrat

Contributor

Elizabeth Stuart

Contributor · added in 0.9.1

Releases (9)

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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
1.2.1Latest
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2024-04-02 · current release · diff ↗ ·
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as.mimids, as.wimids
1.1.0
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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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R 4.1.0 released · 2021-05-18
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cbind, trim
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R 4.0.0 released · 2020-04-24
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0.9.1
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2019-12-13 · diff ↗ ·
added 2 exports
is.mimipo, is.mimira
0.9.0
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2019-11-01 · diff ↗ ·
removed 4 exports
bindthem, matchthem.data, mergethem, weightthem.data

added 1 export
complete
0.8.1
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2019-10-10

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R 3.6.0 released · 2019-04-26

Package metadata

First published: 2019-10-10
Total releases: 9 / 7 yrs
License: GPL (>= 2) OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 3.6.0
Bundled data: 18 KB / 1 file
Download size: 531 KB

Appears in task views

Causal Inference Missing Data Official Statistics & Survey Statistics

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' entry:

citation("MatchThem")

The package provides a citation file, so citation() returns the authors' own entry.

It points to 10.32614/rj-2021-073.

Cite the R Observatory

For a number measured here: a download total, a coverage figure, an archival date.

Format

APA

Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for MatchThem version 1.2.1 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-22. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

From data release v2026-10-22, which the citation names so these numbers can be found later. More on citing and the projects behind them.

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