R Observatory: Metrics for rcbsubset version 1.1.7

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

rcbsubset

1.1.7Package record

Optimal Subset Matching with Refined Covariate Balance

1packages depend

3.5Kdownloads / year

1.7%test coverage

9/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Samuel D. PimentelCRAN page ↗

Tools for optimal subset matching of treated units and control units in observational studies, with support for refined covariate balance constraints, (including fine and near-fine balance as special cases). A close relative is the 'rcbalance' package. See Pimentel, et al.(2015) doi:10.1080/01621459.2014.997879 and Pimentel and Kelz (2020) doi:10.1080/01621459.2020.1720693. 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("rcbsubset", 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-rcbsubset

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-rcbsubset

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-rcbsubset

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

4NOTE9OK

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.

NOTEdependencies in R coder-devel-linux-x86_64-fedora-clang, r-devel-linux-x86_64-fedora-gcc

Namespace in Imports field not imported from:
  ‘rlemon’
All declared Imports should be used.

CRAN check page ↗

Slowest check: 58 s · r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

Status changes

NOTE9 OK, 4 NOTENow
NOTE7 OK, 7 NOTE2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 1.1.7

READMENoVignettesNoNEWSNoCitation fileNoWebsitenot declared in DESCRIPTION

Help pages: 3includes a package overview page
Examples that run: 0%1 never run
Exported functions with examples: 100%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 100%
Help pages citing references: 100%

How these are measured

Downloads

3.5K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #11,806 · ~10/day · ~295/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

33830 days

92890 days

3.5K1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on99 r2u3 autocran73 c2d4u

How downloads are counted

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

6 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing rcbsubset adds 4 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 (2)

rcbalance rlemon

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (3)

testthat rrelaxiv optmatch

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

1direct

1indirect

Imports 1

Depends, Imports or LinkingTo, most downloaded first

matchMulti

How these are counted

Code & Tests

People & History

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

Samuel D. Pimentel

Maintainer since 1.1 (2016)

Releases (7)

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R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
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R 4.4.0 released · 2024-04-24
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R 4.3.0 released · 2023-04-21
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R 4.2.0 released · 2022-04-22
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2022-03-26
1.1.7Latest
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2022-03-26 · current release · diff ↗
archivedRemoved from CRAN
2022-03-05
licence violation Suggested non-FOSS package 'optmatch' and used it unconditionally
1.1.6
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2022-03-03 · diff ↗
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2021-11-08 · diff ↗
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R 4.1.0 released · 2021-05-18
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R 4.0.0 released · 2020-04-24
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R 3.6.0 released · 2019-04-26
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R 3.5.0 released · 2018-04-23
1.1.3
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R 3.4.0 released · 2017-04-21
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R 3.3.0 released · 2016-05-03
1.1.2
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2016-02-20 · diff ↗ ·
added 1 export
rcbsubset
1.1
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2016-02-17
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R 3.2.0 released · 2015-04-16

Package metadata

First published: 2016-02-17
Total releases: 7 / 10 yrs
License: MIT + file LICENSE OSI
Additional repositories: errickson.net
Minimum R: ≥ 3.2.0
Download size: 20 KB

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citation("rcbsubset")

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Format

APA

Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for rcbsubset version 1.1.7 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-24. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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