R Observatory: Metrics for hbal version 1.3.0

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

hbal

1.3.0Package record

Hierarchically Regularized Entropy Balancing

0packages depend

6.3Kdownloads / year

72.3%test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Yiqing XuCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Website ↗Issues ↗

Implements hierarchically regularized entropy balancing proposed by Xu and Yang (2022) doi:10.1017/pan.2022.12. The method adjusts the covariate distributions of the control group to match those of the treatment group. 'hbal' automatically expands the covariate space to include higher order terms and uses cross-validation to select variable penalties for the balancing conditions.

Install

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

install.packages("hbal", 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("xuyiqing/hbal")

Development version from xuyiqing/hbal. 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-hbal

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-hbal

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-hbal

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: 4.2 min · r-devel-windows-x86_64

Status changes

OK13 OK2026-09-24
WARNING11 OK, 2 WARNING2026-09-17
OK13 OK2026-08-05
NOTE12 OK, 1 NOTE2026-08-01
OK12 OK2026-04-25

Show 3 earlier changesHide 3 earlier changes

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

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 1.3.0

README· In the repository, left out of the releaseVignettesNoNEWS· In the repository, left out of the releaseCitation fileNoWebsiteYes

Help pages: 14includes a package overview page
Examples that run: 100%3 run in a plain check
Exported functions with examples: 75%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 100%
Help pages citing references: 36%

How these are measured

Downloads

6.3K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #6,609 · ~17/day · ~524/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

52130 days

1.3K90 days

6.3K1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on360 r2u5 autocran

How downloads are counted

Repository

xuyiqing/hbal ↗Account: xuyiqing

12Stars

6Forks

0Open issues

0Open PRs

3Releases

148Commits

5Commit identities

148 commits · Last activity 2026-09-18

Responsiveness

How these are sampled

PRs merged (all time): 80%
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed issues: not measured
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed PRs: 0

Forks over time

2026-07-14 · 62026-09-20 · 6

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

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

Checks run against github.com/xuyiqing/hbal 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

Docs source (1)

README.Rmd

CRAN release process (1)

cran-comments.md

Lint, format, editor (1)

RStudio project

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

AI coding toolsBeta

This repository shows signs of AI coding tools.

Claude Codefirst seen on or before 2026-09-15
Pull request it wrote: opened by a project member
Commits: at least 24 crediting it in the message

Models named in its commits

Claude Opus 515 commits · Sep 2026
Claude Fable 5.17 commits · Sep 2026
Claude Sonnet 52 commits · Sep 2026

Counts are commits, not lines of code. Commits by a tool's accounts count once across all of its accounts. Commits crediting it are the largest count among its credit lines, a minimum.How this is detected·Detection ruleset v4 (updated 2026-09-27)

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

16 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing hbal adds 35 packages (16 with compiled code, 37 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: stringi 11 MB, ggplot2 6.0 MB, glmnet 2.7 MB.

Depends (1)

R >= 3.6.0

Imports (9)

Rcpp estimatr glmnet gtable gridExtra ggplot2 stringr nloptr generics

LinkingTo (2)

Rcpp RcppEigen

Suggests (6)

MASSknitr rmarkdown broom ebal 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 (2)

Yiqing Xu

Author, Maintainer since 1.2.8 (2023)

Eddie Yang

Author

Releases (4)

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1.3.0Latest
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2026-09-17 · current release · diff ↗ ·
added 1 export
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R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
1.2.15
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2025-09-10 · diff ↗
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R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11
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R 4.4.0 released · 2024-04-24
1.2.12
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2024-01-10 · diff ↗
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R 4.3.0 released · 2023-04-21
1.2.8
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2023-01-24
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R 4.2.0 released · 2022-04-22

Package metadata

First published: 2023-01-24
Total releases: 4 / 3 yrs
License: MIT + file LICENSE OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 3.6.0
Bundled data: 139 KB / 1 file
Download size: 179 KB

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("hbal")

Format

Xu, Y., & Yang, E. (2026). hbal: Hierarchically Regularized Entropy Balancing (Version 1.3.0) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.hbal

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 hbal version 1.3.0 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-22. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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