R Observatory: Metrics for balnet version 0.0.4

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

balnet

0.0.4Package record

Pathwise Estimation of Covariate Balancing Propensity Scores

0packages depend

2.3Kdownloads / year

59.8%test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Erik SverdrupCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Issues ↗

Provides pathwise estimation of regularized logistic propensity score models using covariate balancing loss functions rather than maximum likelihood. Regularization paths are fit via the 'adelie' elastic-net solver with a 'glmnet'-like interface, yielding balancing weights that target covariate balance for the ATE and ATT. Under lasso penalization, lambda bounds the maximum covariate imbalance, so the regularization path traces a sequence of decreasing imbalance tolerances. For details, see Sverdrup & Hastie (2026) doi:10.48550/arXiv.2602.18577.

Install

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

install.packages("balnet", 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("erikcs/balnet")

Development version from erikcs/balnet. 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-balnet

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-balnet

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-balnet

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: 4.7 min · r-devel-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
OK12 OK2026-04-25

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NOTE12 OK, 1 NOTE2026-04-22
ERROR11 OK, 1 NOTE, 1 ERROR2026-04-18
NOTE9 OK, 1 NOTE2026-04-08
OK4 OK2026-04-04

Advisories

none known

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Documentation

In release 0.0.4

READMENoVignettesYes · 1 · dynamicNEWSNoCitation fileNo

Help pages: 18 (5 internal)
Examples that run: 0%11 only when donttest examples are enabled (R CMD check --as-cran)
Exported functions with examples: 100%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 100%
Help pages citing references: 11%

Vignettes (1)

An introduction to balnet

How these are measured

Downloads

2.3K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #11,536 · ~6/day · ~196/mo

Releases R versions

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28630 days

94090 days

2.3K1 year

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How downloads are counted

Repository

erikcs/balnet ↗Account: erikcs

4Stars

1Forks

11Open issues

0Open PRs

0Releases

186Commits

2Commit identities

causal-inference

License file reads as MIT · 186 commits · Last activity 2026-08-26 · 0% stars, 30d

Responsiveness

How these are sampled

PRs merged (all time): 94%
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed issues: 12
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed PRs: 0

Stars over time

2026-01-15 · 12026-07-07 · 4

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

3 development-tooling and community-health practices detected across 2 families in the upstream repository

Checks run against github.com/erikcs/balnet on 2026-10-21.

Continuous integration (1)

GitHub Actions

Docs source (2)

GitHub Pages site last deployed 2026-08-26 · The repository has a site deploy workflow

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

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

6 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing balnet adds 2 packages (2 with compiled code, 3.5 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: Rcpp 1.8 MB, RcppEigen 1.7 MB.

Depends (0)

none

Imports (3)

RcppMatrixmethods

LinkingTo (2)

Rcpp RcppEigen

Suggests (3)

testthat knitr rmarkdown

Enhances (0)

none

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Reverse dependencies

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Nothing depends on this yet.

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Code & Tests

People & History

People (3)

Erik Sverdrup

Author, Maintainer since 0.0.1 (2026)

Trevor Hastie

Author

James Yang

Contributor

Author of the bundled adelie C++ library.

Releases (4)

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R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11

Package metadata

First published: 2026-04-03
Total releases: 4 / 1 yrs
License: MIT + file LICENSE OSI
Download size: 299 KB

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citation("balnet")

Format

Sverdrup, E., Hastie, T., & Yang, J. (2026). balnet: Pathwise Estimation of Covariate Balancing Propensity Scores (Version 0.0.4) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.balnet

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APA

Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for balnet version 0.0.4 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-25. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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