Fit Bayesian Additive Regression Trees (BART) models to select confounders and estimate treatment effect.

Publication

This package is described in The R Journal:

Yoo, Y. and Kim, C. (2025). bartcs: An R Package for Bayesian Nonparametric Adjustment for Confounding. The R Journal, 17(2). https://journal.r-project.org/articles/RJ-2025-019/

Installation

You can install from CRAN with:

install.packages("bartcs")

Or you can install the development version from GitHub with:

remotes::install_github("yooyh/bartcs")

For Mac Users Only

bartcs supports multi-threading by OpenMP. If you

• Have OpenMP installed
• And want to use OpenMP multi-threading

then install package from source with:

# build from source
install.packages("bartcs", type = "source")
# count OpemMP thread
bartcs::count_omp_thread() # this should be greater than 1