R Observatory: Metrics for AdhereR version 0.8.3

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

AdhereR

0.8.3Package record

Adherence to Medications

1packages depend

9.1Kdownloads / year

–test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Dan DediuCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗

Computation of adherence to medications from Electronic Health care Data and visualization of individual medication histories and adherence patterns. The package implements a set of S3 classes and functions consistent with current adherence guidelines and definitions. It allows the computation of different measures of adherence (as defined in the literature, but also several original ones), their publication-quality plotting, the estimation of event duration and time to initiation, the interactive exploration of patient medication history and the real-time estimation of adherence given various parameter settings. It scales from very small datasets stored in flat CSV files to very large databases and from single-thread processing on mid-range consumer laptops to parallel processing on large heterogeneous computing clusters. It exposes a standardized interface allowing it to be used from other programming languages and platforms, such as Python.

Changes in 0.8.3

Bugfix

fixed GitHub issue #206 (reported by Sebastian Kinnberg Nielsen) where the dosage.change.means.new.treatment.episode parameter of compute.treatment.episodes() did not have any effect.

From NEWS.md in the release

Install

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

install.packages("AdhereR", 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("ddediu/AdhereR")

Development version from ddediu/AdhereR. 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-adherer

Fast Ubuntu binaries via r2u (no compilation). The cranapt setup runs once and is skipped when it is already enabled. We list this channel from recorded r2u download activity rather than from a live index of the repository, so treat it as last known rather than guaranteed.

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-AdhereR

RPMs from the iucar/cran COPR, rebuilt from CRAN.

For install.packages() integration in R, also: sudo dnf install R-CoprManager

Health

CRAN checks

13OK

CRAN check page ↗

Slowest check: 3.0 min · r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

Status changes

OK13 OK2026-08-05
NOTE12 OK, 1 NOTE2026-08-01
OK14 OK2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 0.8.3

READMENoVignettesYes · 3 · dynamicNEWSYes · 100% structured · mentions 0.8.3Citation fileYes · cites a publication

Help pages: 43
Examples that run: 65%17 run in a plain check · 9 never run
Exported functions with examples: 67%
Documented parameters: 85%
Return-value docs: 100%
Help pages citing references: 0%

Vignettes (3)

How these are measured

Downloads

9.1K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #4,309 · ~25/day · ~759/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

72030 days

2K90 days

9.1K1 year

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Also on229 r2u

How downloads are counted

Repository

ddediu/adherer ↗Account: ddediu

34Stars

10Forks

37Open issues

0Open PRs

7Releases

610Commits

4Commit identities

rmedical-databasesadherence-to-medicationsmedication-historiesvisualisationelectronic-healthcare-datapythonsql

610 commits · Last activity 2026-06-22 · +3% stars, 30d

Responsiveness

How these are sampled

PRs merged (all time): 80%
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed issues: 6
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed PRs: 0

Stars over time

2025-06-06 · 302026-10-15 · 34

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

1 development-tooling and community-health practice detected across 1 family in the upstream repository

Checks run against github.com/ddediu/adherer on 2026-10-18.

Docs source (1)

GitHub Pages site last deployed 2019-06-14

How this is detected·Detection ruleset v3 (2026-09-26)

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

12 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing AdhereR adds 9 packages (7 with compiled code, 6.9 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: data.table 5.7 MB, lubridate 420 KB, cpp11 298 KB.

Depends (1)

R >= 3.0

Imports (8)

lubridateparalleldata.table rsvg jpeg png webpmethods

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (6)

rmarkdown knitr R.rsp base64 viridisLite AdhereRViz

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

1direct

0indirect

Imports 1

Depends, Imports or LinkingTo, most downloaded first

AdhereRViz

How these are counted

Code & Tests

Datasets

People & History

People (3)

Dan Dediu

Author, Maintainer since 0.1.0 (2017)

Samuel Allemann

Author · added in 0.3

Alexandra L. Dima

Author · added in 0.8.2

Listed in earlier versions (1)

Alexandra Dima

no longer listed · 0.1.0 to 0.8.1

Releases (14)

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0.8.3Latest
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2026-06-22 · current release · diff ↗
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R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
0.8.2
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2026-01-15 · diff ↗
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R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11
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R 4.4.0 released · 2024-04-24
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R 4.3.0 released · 2023-04-21
0.8.1
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2022-07-05 · diff ↗
0.8.0
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2022-06-23 · diff ↗ ·
added 3 exports
getEventsToEpisodesMapping, getEventsToSlidingWindowsMapping, getInnerEventInfo
R
R 4.2.0 released · 2022-04-22
0.7.0
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2021-09-18 · diff ↗ ·
added 3 exports
getEventInfo, getMGs, subsetCMA
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R 4.1.0 released · 2021-05-18
0.6.1
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2020-05-12 · diff ↗
0.6.0
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2020-05-07 · diff ↗ ·
added 7 exports
CMA_polypharmacy, get.event.plotting.area, get.legend.plotting.area, get.plotted.events, get.plotted.partial.cmas, last.plot.get.info, map.event.coords.to.plot
R
R 4.0.0 released · 2020-04-24
0.5
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2019-06-11 · diff ↗ ·
added 2 exports
cover_special_periods, prune_event_durations
R
R 3.6.0 released · 2019-04-26

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0.4.1
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2019-02-11 · diff ↗
0.4
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2019-02-10 · diff ↗
0.3.1
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2018-11-26 · diff ↗ ·
added 1 export
time_to_initiation
0.3
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2018-11-21 · diff ↗ ·
added 1 export
compute_event_durations
0.2.0
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2018-06-15 · diff ↗ ·
added 2 exports
callAdhereR, getCallerWrapperLocation
R
R 3.5.0 released · 2018-04-23
0.1.0
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2017-04-27
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R 3.4.0 released · 2017-04-21

Package metadata

First published: 2017-04-27
Total releases: 14 / 9 yrs
License: GPL (>= 2) OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 3.0
Bundled data: 27 KB / 3 files
Download size: 2.8 MB

Cite

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Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("AdhereR")

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Format

APA

Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for AdhereR version 0.8.3 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-22. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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