hbal

1.2.15

Hierarchically Regularized Entropy Balancing

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Overview

About

Maintained by Yiqing XuFirst published 2023-01-243 releasesCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗

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)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.

bspm (used by r2u) also needs make: sudo apt install make

# 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).

Health

CRAN checks

13OK

Slowest check: 4.5 min · r-devel-windows-x86_64

Check history

OK2026-04-25
12 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
NOTE2026-04-22
12 OK · 2 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
ERROR2026-04-18
11 OK · 2 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 1 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
NOTE2026-03-10
12 OK · 2 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE

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Repository

GitHub ↗ xuyiqing/hbal

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117Commits

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117 commits · Last activity 2025-09-20

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Checks run against github.com/xuyiqing/hbal on 2026-07-19.

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README.Rmd

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Dependencies

Declared dependencies

15 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Depends (1)

R >= 3.6.0

Imports (9)

Rcpp estimatr glmnet gtable gridExtra ggplot2 stringr nloptr generics

LinkingTo (2)

Rcpp RcppEigen

Suggests (5)

MASSknitr rmarkdown broom ebal

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Yiqing Xu

Author, Maintainer

Authors (2)

Yiqing Xu

Author, Maintainer

Eddie Yang

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Package Timeline

3 releases. R releases are shown for context.

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R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
1.2.15Latest
2025-09-10 · current release · 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
2024-01-10 · diff ↗
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R 4.3.0 released · 2023-04-21
1.2.8
2023-01-24
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R 4.2.0 released · 2022-04-22

Package metadata

First published: 2023-01-24
Total releases: 3 / 3 yrs
License: MIT + file LICENSE OSI
Download size: 151 KB
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With dependencies: not tracked yet

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