R Observatory: Metrics for microsynth version 2.0.51

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

microsynth

2.0.51Package record

Synthetic Control Methods with Micro- And Meso-Level Data

0packages depend

3.2Kdownloads / year

–test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Michael RobbinsCRAN page ↗

A generalization of the 'Synth' package that is designed for data at a more granular level (e.g., micro-level). Provides functions to construct weights (including propensity score-type weights) and run analyses for synthetic control methods with micro- and meso-level data; see Robbins, Saunders, and Kilmer (2017) doi:10.1080/01621459.2016.1213634 and Robbins and Davenport (2021) doi:10.18637/jss.v097.i02.

Install

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

install.packages("microsynth", repos = "https://cloud.r-project.org/")

Installs the current CRAN release. Prebuilt binaries on Windows and macOS.

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-microsynth

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-microsynth

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-microsynth

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: 2.9 min · r-devel-windows-x86_64

Status changes

OK13 OK2026-08-05
NOTE12 OK, 1 NOTE2026-08-01
OK14 OK2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

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Documentation

In release 2.0.51

READMEYes · 124 wordsVignettesYes · 3 · dynamicNEWSYes · 100% structured · does not mention 2.0.51Citation fileYes · cites a publicationWebsitenot declared in DESCRIPTION

Cites a JSS article

Help pages: 5
Examples that run: 100%2 run in a plain check
Exported functions with examples: 100%
Documented parameters: 96%
Return-value docs: 50%
Help pages citing references: 20%

Vignettes (3)

Aggregating Matching Variables Over Time HTML
Ensuring Model Feasibility HTML
MicroSynth: A Tutorial HTML

How these are measured

Downloads

3.2K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #11,459 · ~9/day · ~270/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

36230 days

93290 days

3.2K1 year

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How downloads are counted

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

8 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing microsynth adds 10 packages (6 with compiled code, 7.6 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: survey 2.3 MB, Rcpp 1.8 MB, RcppArmadillo 1.0 MB.

Depends (1)

R >= 2.10

Imports (8)

methodssurvey kernlab LowRankQPstatsparallelutilspracma

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (5)

MASSxlsx knitr rmarkdown testthat

Enhances (0)

none

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Reverse dependencies

0direct

0indirect

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People & History

People (2)

Michael Robbins

Author, Maintainer since 1.0.9 (2018)

Steven Davenport

Author

Releases (6)

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R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
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R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11
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R 4.4.0 released · 2024-04-24
unarchivedReturned to CRAN
2023-06-30
2.0.44
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R 4.3.0 released · 2023-04-21
archivedRemoved from CRAN
2023-04-14
requires archived package 'LowRankQP'
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R 4.2.0 released · 2022-04-22
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R 4.1.0 released · 2021-05-18
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2021-02-26 · diff ↗
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2021-01-12 · diff ↗
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R 4.0.0 released · 2020-04-24
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R 3.6.0 released · 2019-04-26
2.0.13
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2019-04-10 · diff ↗ ·
added 1 export
plot_microsynth
1.0.9
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2018-05-16

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R 3.5.0 released · 2018-04-23

Package metadata

First published: 2018-05-16
Total releases: 6 / 8 yrs
License: GPL-3 OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 2.10
Bundled data: 391 KB / 1 file
Download size: 1.2 MB

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Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' entry:

citation("microsynth")

The package provides a citation file, so citation() returns the authors' own entry.

It points to 10.18637/jss.v097.i02.

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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 microsynth version 2.0.51 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-21. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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