R Observatory: Metrics for bsynth version 1.0

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

bsynth

1.0Package record

Bayesian Synthetic Control

0packages depend

2.9Kdownloads / year

3.0%test coverage

11/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Ignacio MartinezCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Issues ↗

Implements the Bayesian Synthetic Control method for causal inference in comparative case studies. This package provides tools for estimating treatment effects in settings with a single treated unit and multiple control units, allowing for uncertainty quantification and flexible modeling of time-varying effects. The methodology is based on the paper by Vives and Martinez (2022) doi:10.48550/arXiv.2206.01779.

Install

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

install.packages("bsynth", 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("google/bsynth")

Development version from google/bsynth. 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-bsynth

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-bsynth

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-bsynth

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

NOTEdependencies in R coder-devel-linux-x86_64-fedora-clang, r-devel-linux-x86_64-fedora-gcc

Namespaces in Imports field not imported from:
  ‘R6’ ‘RcppParallel’ ‘purrr’ ‘rstantools’ ‘scales’ ‘vizdraws’
All declared Imports should be used.

CRAN check page ↗

Slowest check: 44.7 min · r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

Status changes

NOTE11 OK, 2 NOTE2026-07-29
ERROR10 OK, 2 NOTE, 1 ERROR2026-07-27
NOTE11 OK, 2 NOTE2026-06-09
ERROR10 OK, 2 NOTE, 1 ERROR2026-06-08
NOTE9 OK, 5 NOTE2026-04-22

Show 2 earlier changesHide 2 earlier changes

ERROR8 OK, 5 NOTE, 1 ERROR2026-04-18
NOTE9 OK, 5 NOTE2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 1.0

READMEYes · 70 wordsVignettesYes · 1 · dynamicNEWSNoCitation fileNoWebsitenot declared in DESCRIPTION

Help pages: 13 (1 internal)includes a package overview page
Examples that run: no examples
Exported functions with examples: 0%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 100%
Help pages citing references: 8%

Vignettes (1)

Multiple Treated HTML

How these are measured

Downloads

2.9K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #15,353 · ~8/day · ~245/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

30430 days

79590 days

2.9K1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on488 r2u10 autocran

How downloads are counted

Repository

google/bsynth ↗Organization: google

23Stars

7Forks

0Open issues

0Open PRs

1Releases

30Commits

6Commit identities

30 commits · Last activity 2025-03-16 · 0% stars, 30d

Responsiveness

How these are sampled

PRs merged (all time): 75%
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

2025-05-20 · 202026-07-28 · 23

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/google/bsynth on 2026-10-21.

Governance and community (2)

Code of conduct (inherited from google)Contributing guide

Docs source (1)

pkgdown

CRAN release process (1)

CRAN-SUBMISSION

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

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

27 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing bsynth adds 78 packages (39 with compiled code, 75 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: BH 14 MB, stringi 11 MB, ggplot2 6.0 MB.

Depends (1)

R >= 3.4.0

Imports (18)

R6 Rcpp RcppParallel cubelyr dplyr ggplot2 glue magrittrmethodspurrr rstan rstantools scales tibble tidyr vizdraws (>= 1.1)statsrlang

LinkingTo (6)

BH Rcpp RcppEigen RcppParallel rstan StanHeaders (>= 2.18.0)

Suggests (5)

knitr rmarkdown roxygen2 gsynth testthat

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

0direct

0indirect

Nothing depends on this yet.

How these are counted

Code & Tests

People & History

People (2)

Ignacio Martinez

Author, Maintainer since 1.0 (2024)

Jaume

Author

Releases (1)

R
R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
R
R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11
1.0Latest
record
2024-06-25 · current release
R
R 4.4.0 released · 2024-04-24

Package metadata

First published: 2024-06-25
Total releases: 1 / 2 yrs
License: Apache License 2.0 OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 3.4.0
Download size: 283 KB

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("bsynth")

Format

Martinez, I., & Jaume. (2024). bsynth: Bayesian Synthetic Control (Version 1.0) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.bsynth

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 bsynth version 1.0 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-23. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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