R Observatory: Metrics for NHANES version 2.1.4

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

NHANES

2.1.4Package record

Data from the US National Health and Nutrition Examination Study

0packages dependsuggested by 8

79.8Kdownloads / year

–test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Randall PruimCRAN page ↗

Body Shape and related measurements from the US National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES, 1999-2004). See https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/nhanes/index.html for details.

Install

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

install.packages("NHANES", 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-nhanes

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-NHANES

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-NHANES

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: 58 s · r-devel-windows-x86_64

Status changes

OK13 OK2026-09-08
ERROR12 OK, 1 ERROR2026-09-07
NOTE13 NOTE2026-07-16
WARNING12 NOTE, 1 WARNING2026-07-15
NOTE14 NOTE2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 2.1.4

READMEYes · 95 wordsVignettesNoNEWSNoCitation fileNoWebsitenot declared in DESCRIPTION

Help pages: 1
Examples that run: 100%1 run in a plain check
Exported functions with examples: not tracked
Documented parameters: not tracked
Return-value docs: not tracked
Help pages citing references: 0%

How these are measured

Downloads

79.8K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #1,369 · ~219/day · ~6.6K/mo

Releases R versions

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8.7K30 days

20.4K90 days

79.8K1 year

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How downloads are counted

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

1 external dependency (excludes base and recommended)

Installing NHANES adds no packages beyond those that come with R.

Depends (1)

R >= 3.0

Imports (0)

none

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (1)

mosaic

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

0direct

0indirect

Suggested by 8

Suggests, most downloaded first

mosaic mosaicCore csurvey svydiags plotor simdata mpower ExclusionTable

How these are counted

Code & Tests

Datasets

People & History

People (1)

Randall Pruim

Author, Maintainer since 1.0 (2014)

Listed in earlier versions (2)

Nicholas Horton

no longer listed · 1.0

Daniel Kaplan

no longer listed · 1.0

Releases (4)

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2014-08-23

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Package metadata

First published: 2014-08-23
Total releases: 4 / 12 yrs
License: GPL (>= 2) OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 3.0
Bundled data: 1.2 MB / 2 files
Download size: 1.2 MB

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("NHANES")

Format

Pruim, R. (2026). NHANES: Data from the US National Health and Nutrition Examination Study (Version 2.1.4) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.NHANES

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

Cite the R Observatory

For a number measured here: a download total, a coverage figure, an archival date.

Format

APA

Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for NHANES version 2.1.4 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-22. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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