balnet

0.0.3

Pathwise Estimation of Covariate Balancing Propensity Scores

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Overview

About

Maintained by Erik SverdrupFirst published 2026-04-033 releasesCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗

Provides pathwise estimation of regularized logistic propensity score models using covariate balancing loss functions rather than maximum likelihood. Regularization paths are fit via the 'adelie' elastic-net solver with a 'glmnet'-like interface, yielding balancing weights that target covariate balance for the ATE and ATT. Under lasso penalization, lambda bounds the maximum covariate imbalance, so the regularization path traces a sequence of decreasing imbalance tolerances. For details, see Sverdrup & Hastie (2026) doi:10.48550/arXiv.2602.18577.

Install

R (CRAN)pak (dev)Ubuntu (r2u)openSUSE (OBS)

install.packages("balnet", 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("erikcs/balnet")

Development version from erikcs/balnet. 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-balnet

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-balnet

RPMs auto-built from CRAN on openSUSE OBS (Tumbleweed).

Health

CRAN checks

13OK

Slowest check: 4.4 min · r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

Check history

OK2026-04-25
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ERROR2026-04-18
11 OK · 1 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 1 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
NOTE2026-04-08
9 OK · 1 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
OK2026-04-04
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Repository

GitHub ↗ erikcs/balnet

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Dependencies

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6 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

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none

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Erik Sverdrup

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Erik Sverdrup

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Trevor Hastie

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Contributors (1)

James Yang

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Package Timeline

3 releases. R releases are shown for context.

0.0.3Latest
2026-05-26 · current release · diff ↗
0.0.2
2026-05-05 · diff ↗
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R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
0.0.1
2026-04-03
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R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11

Package metadata

First published: 2026-04-03
Total releases: 3 / 1 yrs
License: MIT + file LICENSE OSI
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