R Observatory: Metrics for tidysynth version 0.2.1

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

tidysynth

0.2.1Package record

A Tidy Implementation of the Synthetic Control Method

0packages depend

12.4Kdownloads / year

64.9%test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Eric DunfordCRAN page ↗

A synthetic control offers a way of evaluating the effect of an intervention in comparative case studies. The package makes a number of improvements when implementing the method in R. These improvements allow users to inspect, visualize, and tune the synthetic control more easily. A key benefit of a tidy implementation is that the entire preparation process for building the synthetic control can be accomplished in a single pipe.

Changes in 0.2.1

Added a NEWS.md file to track changes to the package.
Resolved spelling errors.
Fixed bug in generate_predictors() for edge-cases where no aggregate function is supplied with a NULL time_window.
Adjusted ordering bug that can result in inconsistencies in the optimized weights when changing the time_window.
Updated unit-tests to correspond with ordering bug fix on the weights.
Add check the ensures post-treatment periods are included when running grab_significance().
Fixed issue where differences in temporal ordering in the data resulted in downstream distortions of the package output. Packaged now ensures the sequential time ordering when storing the original input data.
Fixed synthetic_control() when the treated unit doesn't come first in the data.
Drop dependency on LowRankQP, which is no longer maintained. The existing default optimization method ("ipop") is now the sole optimization method used in the package.
Fixed small issue with documentation that prevented package from remaining on CRAN.

From NEWS.md in the release

Install

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

install.packages("tidysynth", 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-tidysynth

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-tidysynth

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-tidysynth

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: 1.7 min · r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

Status changes

OK13 OK2026-08-04
NOTE12 OK, 1 NOTE2026-08-01
OK14 OK2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 0.2.1

READMEYes · 2,003 wordsVignettesNoNEWSYes · 67% structured · mentions 0.2.1Citation fileNoWebsitenot declared in DESCRIPTION

Help pages: 21 (1 internal)
Examples that run: 0%17 only when donttest examples are enabled (R CMD check --as-cran)
Exported functions with examples: 94%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 100%
Help pages citing references: 5%

How these are measured

Downloads

12.4K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #3,689 · ~34/day · ~1K/mo

Releases R versions

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1K30 days

2.7K90 days

12.4K1 year

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Also on119 r2u6 autocran65 c2d4u

How downloads are counted

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

11 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing tidysynth adds 36 packages (18 with compiled code, 35 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: stringi 11 MB, ggplot2 6.0 MB, optimx 2.2 MB.

Depends (1)

R >= 3.5.0

Imports (11)

magrittr tibble dplyr ggplot2 tidyr forcats rlang kernlab rgenoud optimxstats

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (1)

testthat

Enhances (0)

none

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Reverse dependencies

0direct

0indirect

Nothing depends on this yet.

How these are counted

Code & Tests

Datasets

People & History

People (1)

Eric Dunford

Author, Maintainer since 0.1.0 (2021)

Releases (3)

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R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
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R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11
unarchivedReturned to CRAN
2025-03-24
0.2.1Latest
record
2025-03-24 · current release · diff ↗
archivedRemoved from CRAN
2024-12-03
issues were not corrected despite reminders
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R 4.4.0 released · 2024-04-24
unarchivedReturned to CRAN
2023-05-21
0.2.0
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2023-05-21 · diff ↗ ·
removed 1 export
grab_signficance

added 1 export
grab_significance
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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
0.1.0
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2021-01-27
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R 4.0.0 released · 2020-04-24

Package metadata

First published: 2021-01-27
Total releases: 3 / 5 yrs
License: MIT + file LICENSE OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 3.5.0
Bundled data: 17 KB / 1 file
Download size: 122 KB

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Causal Inference Econometrics

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citation("tidysynth")

Format

Dunford, E. (2025). tidysynth: A Tidy Implementation of the Synthetic Control Method (Version 0.2.1) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.tidysynth

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Format

APA

Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for tidysynth version 0.2.1 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-26. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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