R Observatory: Metrics for borrowr version 0.2.0

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

borrowr

0.2.0Package record

Estimate Causal Effects with Borrowing Between Data Sources

0packages depend

3.6Kdownloads / year

–test coverage

11/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Jeffrey A. BoatmanCRAN page ↗

Estimate population average treatment effects from a primary data source with borrowing from supplemental sources. Causal estimation is done with either a Bayesian linear model or with Bayesian additive regression trees (BART) to adjust for confounding. Borrowing is done with multisource exchangeability models (MEMs). For information on BART, see Chipman, George, & McCulloch (2010) doi:10.1214/09-AOAS285. For information on MEMs, see Kaizer, Koopmeiners, & Hobbs (2018) doi:10.1093/biostatistics/kxx031.

Install

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

install.packages("borrowr", 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-borrowr

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-borrowr

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-borrowr

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

2NOTE11OK

Check messages

NOTECRAN incoming feasibilityr-devel-linux-x86_64-debian-clang, r-devel-linux-x86_64-debian-gcc

Maintainer: ‘Jeffrey A. Boatman <jeffrey.boatman@gmail.com>’

No Authors@R field in DESCRIPTION.
Please add one, modifying
  Authors@R: c(person(given = c("Jeffrey", "A."),
                      family = "Boatman",
                      role = c("aut", "cre"),
                      email = "jeffrey.boatman@gmail.com"),
               person(given = c("David", "M."),
                      family = "Vock",
                      role = "aut"),
               person(given = c("Joseph", "S."),
                      family = "Koopmeiners",
                      role = "aut"))
as necessary.

CRAN check page ↗

Slowest check: 4.1 min · r-devel-windows-x86_64

Status changes

NOTE11 OK, 2 NOTENow
NOTE12 OK, 2 NOTE2026-04-22
ERROR11 OK, 2 NOTE, 1 ERROR2026-04-18
NOTE12 OK, 2 NOTE2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

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Documentation

In release 0.2.0

READMEYes · 62 wordsVignettesYes · 1 · dynamicNEWSNoCitation fileNoWebsitenot declared in DESCRIPTION

Help pages: 3
Examples that run: 100%3 run in a plain check
Exported functions with examples: 100%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 50%
Help pages citing references: 67%

Vignettes (1)

Estimating Population Average Treatment Effects with the borrowr Package HTML

How these are measured

Downloads

3.6K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #9,321 · ~10/day · ~299/mo

Releases R versions

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36330 days

1K90 days

3.6K1 year

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Also on381 r2u20 autocran79 c2d4u

How downloads are counted

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

7 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing borrowr adds 3 packages (3 with compiled code, 6.4 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: BART 3.6 MB, Rcpp 1.8 MB, mvtnorm 1.0 MB.

Depends (1)

R >= 3.5.0

Imports (3)

mvtnorm BART Rcpp

LinkingTo (1)

Rcpp

Suggests (3)

knitr rmarkdown ggplot2

Enhances (0)

none

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Reverse dependencies

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0indirect

Nothing depends on this yet.

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Code & Tests

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People & History

People (from the free-text Author field) (3)

Jeffrey A. Boatman

Author, Maintainer since 0.1.0 (2019)

David M. Vock

Author

Joseph S. Koopmeiners

Author

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Package metadata

First published: 2019-07-19
Total releases: 3 / 7 yrs
License: GPL (>= 3) OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 3.5.0
Bundled data: 3.1 KB / 1 file
Download size: 94 KB

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Format

APA

Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for borrowr version 0.2.0 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-19. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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