tidysynth

0.2.1

A Tidy Implementation of the Synthetic Control Method

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13.2Kdownloads / year

64.9%test coverage

13/13checks pass

Overview

About

Maintained by Eric DunfordFirst published 2021-01-273 releasesCRAN 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.

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.

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).

Health

CRAN checks

13OK

Slowest check: 1.8 min · r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

Code health

Yes

Tests · ratio 0.29

64.9%

Coverage · measured lines

94%

Documentation · exports

Dependencies · direct

Check history

OK2026-03-10
14 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE

Documentation

READMEYes · 2,003 wordsVignettesNopkgdown siteNoNEWSYes · 67% structuredCode of conductNoContributing guideNo

Examples that run: 6%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 100%
References docs: 5%

Downloads

13.2K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #3,763 · ~36/day · ~1.1K/mo

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Dependencies

Declared dependencies

11 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

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

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Code & Tests

Code Composition

R 3,688 (67%)Rd 1,825 (33%)

Code characteristics

Object systems

S31

Cyclomatic complexity: 1.0 median / 30 max
Test cases: 13 / 0.29 per code line

Test coverage

Line coverage

65%

Expression

57.5%

Tests / Examples

64.9% / 0% ex

Functions

36 33 exported

Complexity

3.1 avg / 30 max

Call network

36 nodes / 15 edges

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Lowest coverage

36 functions

Function	Cyclo	Coverage
plot_differences exp	1	0%
plot_differences exp	3	0%
plot_mspe_ratio exp	1	0%
plot_mspe_ratio exp	1	0%
plot_placebos exp	1	0%
plot_placebos exp	4	0%

Datasets

Bundled datasets · 1

Name	Class	Rows × Cols	Also ships in
smoking	tbl_df/tbl/data.frame	1,209 × 7	–

People & History

People (1)

Maintainer (1)

Eric Dunford

Author, Maintainer

Authors (1)

Eric Dunford

Author, Maintainer

Package Timeline

3 releases. Pick two to compare their code metrics. R releases are shown for context.

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R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
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R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11
0.2.1Latest
2025-03-24 · current release · diff ↗
unarchivedReturned to CRAN
2025-03-24
archivedRemoved from CRAN
2024-12-03
issues were not corrected despite reminders
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R 4.4.0 released · 2024-04-24
0.2.0
2023-05-21 · diff ↗
unarchivedReturned to CRAN
2023-05-21
R
R 4.3.0 released · 2023-04-21
archivedRemoved from CRAN
2023-04-14
requires archived package 'LowRankQP'
R
R 4.2.0 released · 2022-04-22
R
R 4.1.0 released · 2021-05-18
0.1.0
2021-01-27
R
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
Installed size: not tracked yet
With dependencies: not tracked yet

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