R Observatory: Metrics for PSweight version 2.1.2

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

PSweight

2.1.2Package record

Propensity Score Weighting for Causal Inference with Observational Studies and Randomized Trials

2packages dependsuggested by 4

10.4Kdownloads / year

–test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Yukang ZengCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗

Supports propensity score weighting analysis of observational studies and randomized trials. Enables the estimation and inference of average causal effects with binary and multiple treatments using overlap weights (ATO), inverse probability of treatment weights (ATE), average treatment effect among the treated weights (ATT), matching weights (ATM) and entropy weights (ATEN), with and without propensity score trimming. These weights are members of the family of balancing weights introduced in Li, Morgan and Zaslavsky (2018) doi:10.1080/01621459.2016.1260466 and Li and Li (2019) doi:10.1214/19-AOAS1282.

Changes in 2.1.2

Updated package vignette structure to ensure full PDF documentation is directly available on CRAN
Minor documentation improvements

From NEWS.md in the release

Install

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

install.packages("PSweight", 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("thuizhou/PSweight")

Development version from thuizhou/PSweight. 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-psweight

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-PSweight

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-PSweight

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: 3.6 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
OK14 OK2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 2.1.2

READMEYes · 709 wordsVignettesYes · 1 · staticNEWSYes · 67% structured · mentions 2.1.2Citation fileNoWebsitenot declared in DESCRIPTION

Help pages: 30
Examples that run: 83%19 run in a plain check · 4 hold no code
Exported functions with examples: 100%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 100%
Help pages citing references: 43%

Vignettes (1)

PSweight: Propensity Score Weighting for Causal Inference PDF

How these are measured

Downloads

10.4K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #4,117 · ~29/day · ~869/mo

Releases R versions

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87230 days

2.2K90 days

10.4K1 year

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How downloads are counted

Repository

thuizhou/psweight ↗Account: thuizhou

28Stars

11Forks

11Open issues

1Open PRs

0Releases

23Commits

3Commit identities

23 commits · Last activity 2024-03-30 · The default branch showed an older version (1.2.0) than CRAN on 2026-10-21

Responsiveness

How these are sampled

PRs merged (all time): not measured
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed issues: 8
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed PRs: not measured

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

1 development-tooling and community-health practice detected across 1 family in the upstream repository

Checks run against github.com/thuizhou/psweight on 2026-10-21.

CRAN release process (1)

cran-comments.md

How this is detected·Detection ruleset v4 (2026-10-20)

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

9 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing PSweight adds 43 packages (22 with compiled code, 42 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: ggplot2 6.0 MB, data.table 5.7 MB, gplots 4.6 MB.

Depends (1)

R >= 3.5.0

Imports (8)

lme4nnetMASSggplot2 numDeriv gbm SuperLearner survey

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (3)

knitr rmarkdown R.rsp

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

2direct

0indirect

Imports 2

Suggested by 4

Depends, Imports or LinkingTo, most downloaded first

causal.decomp RCTrep

Suggests, most downloaded first

CohortMethod propensity lmw causens

How these are counted

Code & Tests

Datasets

People & History

People (6)

Yukang Zeng

Maintainer since 1.2.0 (2024) · added in 1.2.0

Author

Author

Author

Author

Author

Previously maintained by Tianhui Zhou (0.1.0 to 1.1.8).

Releases (15)

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R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
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2025-02-12 · diff ↗ ·
added 5 exports
OUTmethod_SW, PSmethod_SW, PStrim_SW, PSweight_SW, SumStat_SW
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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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Package metadata

First published: 2020-05-04
Total releases: 15 / 6 yrs
License: GPL (>= 2) OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 3.5.0
Bundled data: 360 KB / 7 files
Download size: 815 KB

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Causal Inference

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citation("PSweight")

Format

Zeng, Y., Li, F., Li, F., Thomas, L., Tong, G., & Zhou, T. (2025). PSweight: Propensity Score Weighting for Causal Inference with Observational Studies and Randomized Trials (Version 2.1.2) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.PSweight

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Format

APA

Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for PSweight version 2.1.2 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-24. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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