rbw

0.3.2

Residual Balancing Weights for Marginal Structural Models

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Overview

About

Maintained by Xiang ZhouFirst published 2020-04-154 releasesCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗

Residual balancing is a robust method of constructing weights for marginal structural models, which can be used to estimate (a) the average treatment effect in a cross-sectional observational study, (b) controlled direct/mediator effects in causal mediation analysis, and (c) the effects of time-varying treatments in panel data (Zhou and Wodtke 2020 doi:10.1017/pan.2020.2). This package provides three functions, rbwPoint(), rbwMed(), and rbwPanel(), that produce residual balancing weights for estimating (a), (b), (c), respectively.

Install

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

install.packages("rbw", 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("xiangzhou09/rbw")

Development version from xiangzhou09/rbw. 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-rbw

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-rbw

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-rbw

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

Health

CRAN checks

2NOTE11OK

Failing flavors

NOTE r-devel-linux-x86_64-debian-clang
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Slowest check: 1.6 min · r-devel-linux-x86_64-fedora-gcc

Code health

Yes

Tests · ratio 0.21

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Coverage

100%

Documentation · exports

Yes

Vignettes

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README

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Repository

GitHub ↗ xiangzhou09/rbw

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Dependencies

Declared dependencies

7 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Depends (1)

R >= 3.5.0

Imports (3)

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Code & Tests

Code Composition

R 900 (65%)Rd 470 (34%)Vignettes 8 (1%)

Code characteristics

Cyclomatic complexity: 4.5 median / 30 max
Test cases: 5 / 0.21 per code line
Documented parameters: 97%

Test coverage

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Functions

8 4 exported

Complexity

10.4 avg / 30 max

Call network

8 nodes / 7 edges

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People & History

People (2)

Maintainer (1)

Xiang Zhou

Maintainer

Authors (1)

Derick da Silva Baum

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Release timeline

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R 3.6.0 released · 2019-04-26

Package metadata

First published: 2020-04-15
Total releases: 4 / 6 yrs
License: GPL (>= 3) OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 3.5.0
Bundled data: 976 KB / 4 files
Download size: 1.4 MB
Installed size: not tracked yet
With dependencies: not tracked yet