bsynth

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Bayesian Synthetic Control

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2.8Kdownloads / year

3.0%test coverage

10/13checks pass

Overview

About

Maintained by Ignacio MartinezFirst published 2024-06-251 releasesCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗

Implements the Bayesian Synthetic Control method for causal inference in comparative case studies. This package provides tools for estimating treatment effects in settings with a single treated unit and multiple control units, allowing for uncertainty quantification and flexible modeling of time-varying effects. The methodology is based on the paper by Vives and Martinez (2022) doi:10.48550/arXiv.2206.01779.

Install

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

install.packages("bsynth", 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("google/bsynth")

Development version from google/bsynth. 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-bsynth

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-bsynth

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

Health

CRAN checks

3NOTE10OK

Failing flavors

NOTE r-devel-linux-x86_64-debian-gcc
NOTE r-devel-linux-x86_64-fedora-clang
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Slowest check: 37.8 min · r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

Code health

Yes

Tests · ratio 0.03

3.0%

Coverage · measured lines

75%

Documentation · exports

Dependencies · direct

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Documentation

READMEYes · 70 wordsVignettesYes · dynamicpkgdown siteNoNEWSNoCode of conductNoContributing guideNo

Examples that run: not tracked
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 100%
References docs: 8%

Downloads

2.8K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #12,732 · ~8/day · ~232/mo

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Repository

GitHub ↗ google/bsynth

23Stars

7Forks

0Open issues

0Open PRs

1Releases

30Commits

6Contributors

30 commits · Last activity 2025-03-16 · +4.5% stars, 30d

Stars over time

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Repository practices

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Checks run against github.com/google/bsynth on 2026-08-03.

CRAN release process (1)

CRAN-SUBMISSION

How this is detected·Detection ruleset v1 (2026-07-18)

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

27 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Depends (1)

R >= 3.4.0

Imports (18)

R6 Rcpp RcppParallel cubelyr dplyr ggplot2 glue magrittrmethodspurrr rstan rstantools scales tibble tidyr vizdraws (>= 1.1)statsrlang

LinkingTo (6)

BH Rcpp RcppEigen RcppParallel rstan StanHeaders (>= 2.18.0)

Suggests (5)

knitr rmarkdown roxygen2 gsynth testthat

Enhances (0)

none

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Reverse dependencies

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Nothing depends on this yet.

Code & Tests

People & History

People (2)

Maintainer (1)

Ignacio Martinez

Author, Maintainer

Authors (2)

Ignacio Martinez

Author, Maintainer

Jaume

Author

Package Timeline

1 release. R releases are shown for context.

R
R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
1.0Latest
2026-03-10 · current release
R
R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11

Package metadata

First published: 2024-06-25
Total releases: 1 / 2 yrs
License: Apache License 2.0 OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 3.4.0
Download size: 283 KB
Installed size: not tracked yet
With dependencies: not tracked yet

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