R Observatory: Metrics for bscm version 1.0.1

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

bscm

1.0.1Package record

Bayesian Synthetic Control Models

0packages depend

721downloads / year

69.7%test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Jouni HelskeCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Issues ↗

Implements the synthetic control method of Abadie, Diamond, and Hainmueller (2010) doi:10.1198/jasa.2009.ap08746 within a Bayesian framework, enabling straightforward uncertainty quantification of treatment effects and other quantities of interest. Supports time-varying covariates with potentially time-varying effects, single or multiple treated units, and staggered treatment adoption. Provides methods for model assessment, comparison, and selection based on placebo studies, cross-validation, and posterior predictive checks. Posterior sampling is performed using Markov chain Monte Carlo via Stan.

Changes in 1.0.1

Initial CRAN submission.

From NEWS.md in the release

Install

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

install.packages("bscm", 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("helske/bscm")

Development version from helske/bscm. 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-bscm

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-bscm

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-bscm

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: 14.6 min · r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

Status changes

OK13 OKNow
OK8 OK2026-08-10

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 1.0.1

READMEYes · 135 wordsVignettesNoNEWSYes · 67% structured · mentions 1.0.1Citation fileNoWebsitenot declared in DESCRIPTION

Help pages: 51includes a package overview page
Examples that run: 94%29 run in a plain check · 2 only when donttest examples are enabled (R CMD check --as-cran)
Exported functions with examples: 61%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 100%
Help pages citing references: 10%

How these are measured

Downloads

721

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #17,752 · ~2/day · ~60/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

27230 days

72190 days

7211 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on43 r2u12 autocran

How downloads are counted

Repository

helske/bscm ↗Account: helske

0Stars

0Forks

0Open issues

0Open PRs

0Releases

Last activity 2026-09-09 · Default branch at 1.0.2, ahead of CRAN 1.0.1 (checked 2026-10-18)

Responsiveness

not measured

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

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

Checks run against github.com/helske/bscm on 2026-10-18.

Continuous integration (2)

GitHub ActionsR CMD check workflow

The R CMD check workflow runs on Linux, macOS and Windows, and on R-devel

Coverage (1)

Coverage reporting (Codecov)

Reproducibility and dev environment (1)

data-raw/

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

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

22 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing bscm adds 74 packages (42 with compiled code, 76 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: BH 14 MB, stringi 11 MB, ggplot2 6.0 MB.

Depends (1)

R >= 4.1.0

Imports (16)

checkmate cli dplyr ggplot2 loomethodsposterior progressr projpred quadprog Rcpp RcppParallel rlang rstan rstantools tidyr

LinkingTo (6)

BH Rcpp RcppEigen RcppParallel rstan StanHeaders (>= 2.32.10)

Suggests (1)

testthat

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

0direct

0indirect

Nothing depends on this yet.

How these are counted

Code & Tests

Datasets

People & History

People (1)

Jouni Helske

Author, Maintainer since 1.0.1 (2026)

Releases (1)

1.0.1Latest
record
2026-08-09 · current release
R
R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24

Package metadata

First published: 2026-08-09
Total releases: 1 / 1 yrs
License: GPL (>= 3) OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 4.1.0
Bundled data: 3.4 MB / 3 files
Download size: 3.5 MB

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("bscm")

Format

Helske, J. (2026). bscm: Bayesian Synthetic Control Models (Version 1.0.1) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.bscm

This package has no citation file, so citation() returns this entry built from DESCRIPTION.

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 bscm version 1.0.1 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-21. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

From data release v2026-10-21, which the citation names so these numbers can be found later. More on citing and the projects behind them.

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