R Observatory: Metrics for ebal version 0.2.1

Balamuta, James Joseph

ebal

0.2.1

Entropy Reweighting to Create Balanced Samples

6packages depend

52.7Kdownloads / year

73.8%test coverage

13/13checks pass

Overview

About

Maintained by Jens HainmuellerFirst published 2011-07-278 releasesCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗

Implements entropy balancing, a data preprocessing procedure described in Hainmueller (2012, doi:10.1093/pan/mpr025) that allows users to reweight a dataset such that the covariate distributions in the reweighted data satisfy a set of user-specified moment conditions. Useful for creating balanced samples in observational studies with a binary treatment where the control group is reweighted to match the covariate moments of the treatment group, and for reweighting a survey sample to known characteristics from a target population.

Install

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

install.packages("ebal", 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("j-hai/ebal")

Development version from j-hai/ebal. 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-ebal

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

# 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-ebal

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-ebal

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

Health

CRAN checks

13OK

Slowest check: 1.2 min · r-devel-linux-x86_64-fedora-clang

Code health

Yes

Tests · ratio 0.38

73.8%

Coverage · measured lines

100%

Documentation · exports

3

Dependencies · direct

Check history

OK2026-08-05
13 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
NOTE2026-08-01
12 OK · 1 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
OK2026-05-06
13 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
NOTE2026-03-10
12 OK · 2 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE

Documentation

READMENoVignettesNopkgdown siteNoNEWSYes · 100% structuredCode of conductNoContributing guideNo

Examples that run: 100%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 100%
References docs: 25%

Downloads

52.7K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #1,823 · ~144/day · ~4.4K/mo

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Repository

GitHub ↗ j-hai/ebal

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0Open issues

0Open PRs

0Releases

26Commits

1Contributors

26 commits · Last activity 2026-05-12 · 0% stars, 30d

Stars over time

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Repository practices

Upstream repositoryBeta

3 development-tooling and community-health practices detected across 2 families in the upstream repository

Checks run against github.com/j-hai/ebal on 2026-08-03.

Continuous integration (1)

GitHub Actions

CRAN release process (2)

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Dependencies

Declared dependencies

1 external dependency (excludes base and recommended)

Depends (0)

none

Imports (3)

graphicsmethodsstats

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (1)

testthat

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

6direct

0indirect

fdid jointCalib cobalt hbal missDiag rbw

Code & Tests

People & History

People (1)

Maintainer (1)

Jens Hainmueller

Author, Maintainer

Authors (1)

Jens Hainmueller

Author, Maintainer

Package Timeline

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Package metadata

First published: 2011-07-27
Total releases: 8 / 15 yrs
License: GPL (>= 2) OSI
Download size: 27 KB
Installed size: not tracked yet
With dependencies: not tracked yet

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Cite this package

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citation("ebal")

CRAN DOI

https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.ebal

BibTeX, derived from DESCRIPTION

@Manual{ebal,
  title  = {ebal: Entropy Reweighting to Create Balanced Samples},
  author = {Hainmueller, Jens},
  year   = {2026},
  note   = {R package version 0.2.1},
  doi    = {10.32614/CRAN.package.ebal},
  url    = {https://CRAN.R-project.org/package=ebal}
}

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BibTeX

@misc{robservatoryebal,
  author    = {Balamuta, James Joseph},
  title     = {{R} {Observatory}: Metrics for {ebal} version 0.2.1},
  year      = {2026},
  publisher = {HJJB, LLC},
  url       = {https://r-observatory.thecoatlessprofessor.com/packages/ebal},
  note      = {Data set. Data release v2026-08-05}
}

APA

Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for ebal version 0.2.1 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-08-05. https://r-observatory.thecoatlessprofessor.com/packages/ebal

RIS

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AU  - Balamuta, James Joseph
TI  - R Observatory: Metrics for ebal version 0.2.1
PY  - 2026
PB  - HJJB, LLC
N1  - Data release v2026-08-05
UR  - https://r-observatory.thecoatlessprofessor.com/packages/ebal
ER  -

In prose

These package metrics were obtained from the R Observatory (Balamuta, 2026), data release v2026-08-05, https://r-observatory.thecoatlessprofessor.com/packages/ebal.

Bound to data release v2026-08-05, which is what makes the numbers on this page reproducible. See how to cite.

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