R Observatory: Metrics for rcbalance version 1.8.8

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

rcbalance

1.8.8Package record

Large, Sparse Optimal Matching with Refined Covariate Balance

6packages depend

5.4Kdownloads / year

72.3%test coverage

11/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Samuel D. PimentelCRAN page ↗

Tools for large, sparse optimal matching of treated units and control units in observational studies. Provisions are made for refined covariate balance constraints, which include fine and near-fine balance as special cases. Matches are optimal in the sense that they are computed as solutions to network optimization problems rather than greedy algorithms. See Pimentel, et al.(2015) doi:10.1080/01621459.2014.997879 and Pimentel (2016), Obs. Studies 2(1):4-23. The rrelaxiv package, which provides an alternative solver for the underlying network flow problems, carries an academic license and is not available on CRAN, but may be downloaded from Github at https://github.com/josherrickson/rrelaxiv/.

Install

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

install.packages("rcbalance", 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-rcbalance

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-rcbalance

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-rcbalance

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

NOTECRAN incoming feasibilityr-devel-linux-x86_64-debian-clang, r-devel-linux-x86_64-debian-gcc

Maintainer: ‘Samuel D. Pimentel <spi@berkeley.edu>’

No Authors@R field in DESCRIPTION.
Please add one, modifying
  Authors@R: person(given = c("Samuel", "D."),
                    family = "Pimentel",
                    role = c("aut", "cre"),
                    email = "spi@berkeley.edu")
as necessary.

CRAN check page ↗

Slowest check: 1.1 min · r-devel-windows-x86_64

Status changes

NOTE11 OK, 2 NOTENow
NOTE9 OK, 5 NOTE2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 1.8.8

READMENoVignettesNoNEWSNoCitation fileNoWebsitenot declared in DESCRIPTION

Help pages: 6includes a package overview page
Examples that run: 0%1 never run
Exported functions with examples: 20%
Documented parameters: not tracked
Return-value docs: not tracked
Help pages citing references: 83%

How these are measured

Downloads

5.4K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #6,224 · ~15/day · ~454/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

52730 days

1.3K90 days

5.4K1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on123 r2u4 autocran94 c2d4u

How downloads are counted

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

5 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing rcbalance adds 3 packages (3 with compiled code, 2.7 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: Rcpp 1.8 MB, rlemon 482 KB, plyr 392 KB.

Depends (3)

R >= 3.2.0MASSplyr

Imports (1)

rlemon

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (3)

optmatch testthat rrelaxiv

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

6direct

3indirect

Depends 1 · Imports 5

Depends, Imports or LinkingTo, most downloaded first

bigmatch rcbsubset iTOS MultiObjMatch triplesmatch tightenBlock

How these are counted

Code & Tests

People & History

People (from the free-text Author field) (1)

Samuel D. Pimentel

Maintainer since 1.0 (2014)

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Package metadata

First published: 2014-09-02
Total releases: 20 / 12 yrs
License: MIT + file LICENSE OSI
Additional repositories: errickson.net
Minimum R: ≥ 3.2.0
Download size: 25 KB

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Format

APA

Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for rcbalance version 1.8.8 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-23. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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