R Observatory: Metrics for PatientGenerator version 0.2.5

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

PatientGenerator

0.2.5Package record

Generator of Synthetic Patient Data for the OMOP Common Data Model

0packages depend

1.6Kdownloads / year

49.5%test coverage

11/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Cesar BarbozaCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Website ↗Issues ↗

Tools to generate synthetic patient-level test datasets in the Observational Medical Outcomes Partnership (OMOP) Common Data Model (CDM). Includes a chat-driven generator backed by large language models and an interactive 'shiny' designer for editing CDM test sets.

Changes in 0.2.5

patientChat() now includes a logical 'PET' parameter to add the Pregnancy Extension Table (PET) to the JSON schema.

From NEWS.md in the release

Install

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

install.packages("PatientGenerator", 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("OHDSI/PatientGenerator")

Development version from OHDSI/PatientGenerator. 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-patientgenerator

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-PatientGenerator

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-PatientGenerator

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

2NOTE11OK

Check messages

NOTEdependencies in R coder-devel-linux-x86_64-fedora-clang, r-devel-linux-x86_64-fedora-gcc

Namespaces in Imports field not imported from:
  ‘openxlsx’ ‘readxl’
All declared Imports should be used.

CRAN check page ↗

Slowest check: 2.0 min · r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

Status changes

NOTE11 OK, 2 NOTE2026-09-17
ERROR12 OK, 1 ERROR2026-09-04
OK13 OK2026-08-05
NOTE12 OK, 1 NOTE2026-08-01
OK13 OK2026-05-24

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ERROR12 OK, 1 ERROR2026-05-17
OK13 OK2026-05-15
ERROR12 OK, 1 ERROR2026-05-13
OK6 OK2026-05-05

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 0.2.5

READMEYes · 384 wordsVignettesYes · 1 · dynamicNEWSYes · 100% structured · mentions 0.2.5Citation fileNoWebsiteYes · pkgdown

Help pages: 9
Examples that run: 0%2 never run
Exported functions with examples: 25%
Documented parameters: 98%
Return-value docs: 88%
Help pages citing references: 0%

Vignettes (1)

Interactive Patient Designer & Test Integration HTML

How these are measured

Downloads

1.6K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #11,701 · ~4/day · ~133/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

38230 days

93390 days

1.6K1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on42 r2u4 autocran

How downloads are counted

Repository

ohdsi/patientgenerator ↗Organization: OHDSI

6Stars

2Forks

16Open issues

2Open PRs

4Releases

202Commits

3Commit identities

License file reads as Apache-2.0 · 202 commits · Last activity 2026-09-24 · 0% stars, 30d

Responsiveness

How these are sampled

PRs merged (all time): 98%
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed issues: 12
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed PRs: 0

Stars over time

2026-09-16 · 52026-09-25 · 6

Earlier repositories

github.com/mi-erasmusmc/patientgenerator · last recorded on 2026-09-15

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/ohdsi/patientgenerator on 2026-10-21.

Continuous integration (2)

GitHub ActionsR CMD check workflow

The R CMD check workflow runs on Linux, macOS and Windows

Docs source (4)

README.Rmdpkgdown

GitHub Pages site last deployed 2026-09-24 · The repository has a site deploy workflow

Coverage (1)

Coverage reporting

Reproducibility and dev environment (1)

renv

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

26 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing PatientGenerator adds 86 packages (44 with compiled code, 68 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: stringi 11 MB, data.table 5.7 MB, bslib 5.6 MB.

Depends (1)

R >= 4.1.0

Imports (17)

bslib checkmate data.table dplyr DT ellmer glue httr2 jsonlite openxlsx r2d3 R6 readxl shiny stringr testthat cli

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (9)

CDMConnector CohortCharacteristics CohortConstructor covr ggplot2 knitr rmarkdown TestGenerator visOmopResults

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

0direct

0indirect

Nothing depends on this yet.

How these are counted

Code & Tests

People & History

People (3)

Cesar Barboza

Author, Maintainer since 0.1.4 (2026)

Adam Black

Author

Ger Inberg

Author

Releases (3)

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0.2.5Latest
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0.2.4
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2026-09-16 · diff ↗
0.1.4
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2026-05-04
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R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24

Package metadata

First published: 2026-05-04
Total releases: 3 / 1 yrs
License: Apache License (>= 2)
Minimum R: ≥ 4.1.0
Download size: 473 KB

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("PatientGenerator")

Format

Barboza, C., Black, A., & Inberg, G. (2026). PatientGenerator: Generator of Synthetic Patient Data for the OMOP Common Data Model (Version 0.2.5) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.PatientGenerator

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Format

APA

Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for PatientGenerator version 0.2.5 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-25. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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