R Observatory: Metrics for EpiStandard version 0.2.0

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

EpiStandard

0.2.0Package record

Directly Standardise Rates by Age

0packages depend

2.9Kdownloads / year

67.3%test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Elin RowlandsCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Website ↗Issues ↗

Provides functions for age standardisation of epidemiological measures such as incidence and prevalence rates. It allows users to apply standard population structures to observed age-specific estimates in order to obtain comparable summary measures across populations or time periods. Functions support calculation of standardised rates, outcome counts, and corresponding confidence intervals. The tools are designed to facilitate reproducible and transparent adjustment for differences in age distributions in epidemiological and public health research.

Changes in 0.2.0

Initial CRAN submission.

From NEWS.md in the release

Install

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

install.packages("EpiStandard", 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("oxford-pharmacoepi/EpiStandard")

Development version from oxford-pharmacoepi/EpiStandard. 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-epistandard

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-EpiStandard

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-EpiStandard

RPMs auto-built from CRAN on openSUSE OBS (Tumbleweed). We list this channel from recorded autoCRAN download activity rather than from a live index of the repository, so treat it as last known rather than guaranteed.

Health

CRAN checks

13OK

CRAN check page ↗

Slowest check: 3.2 min · r-release-macos-x86_64

Status changes

OK13 OK2026-09-30
ERROR12 OK, 1 ERROR2026-09-04
OK13 OK2026-08-05
NOTE12 OK, 1 NOTE2026-08-01
OK13 OK2026-06-09

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ERROR12 OK, 1 ERROR2026-06-08
OK13 OK2026-05-24
ERROR12 OK, 1 ERROR2026-05-17
OK13 OK2026-05-15
ERROR12 OK, 1 ERROR2026-05-13
OK6 OK2026-03-25

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 0.2.0

READMEYes · 142 wordsVignettesYes · 4 · dynamicNEWSYes · 67% structured · mentions 0.2.0Citation fileNoWebsiteYes · pkgdown

Help pages: 4 (1 internal)includes a package overview page
Examples that run: 33%1 run in a plain check · 2 only when donttest examples are enabled (R CMD check --as-cran)
Exported functions with examples: 100%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 100%
Help pages citing references: 0%

Vignettes (4)

How these are measured

Downloads

2.9K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #12,212 · ~8/day · ~239/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

33730 days

90690 days

2.9K1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on43 r2u5 autocran

How downloads are counted

Repository

oxford-pharmacoepi/epistandard ↗Organization: oxford-pharmacoepi

0Stars

0Forks

8Open issues

0Open PRs

0Releases

License file reads as Apache-2.0 · Last activity 2026-07-09

Responsiveness

How these are sampled

PRs merged (all time): 94%
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed issues: not measured
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed PRs: not measured

Issues over time

2026-07-07 · 112026-07-10 · 8

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

11 development-tooling and community-health practices detected across 6 families in the upstream repository

Checks run against github.com/oxford-pharmacoepi/epistandard on 2026-10-21.

Continuous integration (2)

GitHub ActionsR CMD check workflow

The R CMD check workflow runs on Linux

Docs source (4)

README.Rmdpkgdown

GitHub Pages site last deployed 2026-07-09 · The repository has a site deploy workflow

Coverage (1)

Coverage reporting (Codecov)

Reproducibility and dev environment (1)

data-raw/

Show all practicesHide 2 practices

CRAN release process (2)

cran-comments.mdCRAN-SUBMISSION

Lint, format, editor (1)

RStudio project

How this is detected·Detection ruleset v4 (2026-10-20)

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

15 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing EpiStandard adds 20 packages (12 with compiled code, 18 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: stringi 11 MB, vctrs 1.0 MB, dplyr 902 KB.

Depends (1)

R >= 4.1.0

Imports (7)

cli dplyr rlang stringr tidyr tidyselect tibble

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (8)

gt knitr rmarkdown testthat DBI duckdb IncidencePrevalence omopgenerics

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

0direct

0indirect

Nothing depends on this yet.

How these are counted

Code & Tests

People & History

People (5)

Elin Rowlands

Author, Maintainer since 0.2.0 (2026)

Marta Alcalde-Herraiz

Author

Edward Burn

Author

Nuria Mercade-Besora

Author

Danielle Newby

Author

Releases (1)

R
R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
0.2.0Latest
record
2026-03-24 · current release
R
R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11

Package metadata

First published: 2026-03-24
Total releases: 1 / 1 yrs
License: Apache License (>= 2)
Minimum R: ≥ 4.1.0
Download size: 817 KB

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("EpiStandard")

Format

Rowlands, E., Alcalde-Herraiz, M., Burn, E., Mercade-Besora, N., & Newby, D. (2026). EpiStandard: Directly Standardise Rates by Age (Version 0.2.0) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.EpiStandard

This package has no citation file, so citation() returns this entry built from DESCRIPTION.

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Format

APA

Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for EpiStandard version 0.2.0 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-23. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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