R Observatory: Metrics for forestBalance version 0.1.0

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

forestBalance

0.1.0Package record

Balancing Confounder Distributions with Forest Energy Balancing

0packages depend

2.4Kdownloads / year

80.3%test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Jared HulingCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Issues ↗

Estimates average treatment effects using kernel energy balancing with random forest similarity kernels. A multivariate random forest jointly models covariates, outcome, and treatment to build a similarity kernel between observations. This kernel is then used for energy balancing to create weights that control for confounding. The method is described in De and Huling (2025) doi:10.48550/arXiv.2512.18069.

Install

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

install.packages("forestBalance", 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("jaredhuling/forestBalance")

Development version from jaredhuling/forestBalance. 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-forestbalance

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-forestBalance

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-forestBalance

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: 3.4 min · r-devel-windows-x86_64

Status changes

OK13 OK2026-08-05
NOTE12 OK, 1 NOTE2026-08-01
OK13 OK2026-04-22
ERROR12 OK, 1 ERROR2026-04-18
OK6 OK2026-04-08

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 0.1.0

README· In the repository, left out of the releaseVignettesYes · 4 · staticNEWS· In the repository, left out of the releaseCitation fileNo

Help pages: 11includes a package overview page
Examples that run: 11%1 run in a plain check · 8 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: 27%

Vignettes (4)

How these are measured

Downloads

2.4K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #13,024 · ~7/day · ~201/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

34030 days

87590 days

2.4K1 year

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Also on149 r2u1 autocran

How downloads are counted

Repository

jaredhuling/forestbalance ↗Account: jaredhuling

0Stars

1Forks

0Open issues

1Open PRs

1Releases

56Commits

1Commit identities

56 commits · Last activity 2026-09-18 · Default branch at 0.1.3, ahead of CRAN 0.1.0 (checked 2026-10-18)

Responsiveness

not measured

Forks over time

2026-07-07 · 02026-09-28 · 1

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

7 development-tooling and community-health practices detected across 5 families in the upstream repository

Checks run against github.com/jaredhuling/forestbalance on 2026-10-18.

Continuous integration (1)

GitHub Actions

Docs source (3)

README.Rmdpkgdown

GitHub Pages site last deployed 2026-09-18

CRAN release process (1)

cran-comments.md

Lint, format, editor (1)

RStudio project

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Git structural (1)

.gitattributes

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

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

10 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing forestBalance adds 7 packages (6 with compiled code, 6.5 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: Rcpp 1.8 MB, RcppEigen 1.7 MB, sandwich 1.4 MB.

Depends (0)

none

Imports (5)

grfMASSMatrixmethodsRcpp

LinkingTo (2)

Rcpp RcppEigen

Suggests (6)

ggplot2 knitr osqp rmarkdown testthat WeightIt

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)

Jared Huling

Author, Maintainer since 0.1.0 (2026)

Simion De

Author

Releases (1)

R
R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
0.1.0Latest
record
2026-04-07 · current release
R
R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11

Package metadata

First published: 2026-04-07
Total releases: 1 / 1 yrs
License: GPL (>= 3) OSI
Download size: 320 KB

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("forestBalance")

Format

Huling, J., & De, S. (2026). forestBalance: Balancing Confounder Distributions with Forest Energy Balancing (Version 0.1.0) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.forestBalance

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

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For a number measured here: a download total, a coverage figure, an archival date.

Format

APA

Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for forestBalance version 0.1.0 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-22. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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