R Observatory: Metrics for TestGenerator version 0.8.0

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

TestGenerator

0.8.0Package record

Integration Unit Tests for Pharmacoepidemiological Studies

0packages dependsuggested by 1

6.9Kdownloads / year

55.0%test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

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

An R interface to load testing data in the 'OMOP' Common Data Model ('CDM'). An input file, csv or xlsx, can be converted to a 'CDMConnector' object. This object can be used to execute and test studies that use the 'CDM' https://www.ohdsi.org/data-standardization/.

Changes in 0.8.0

Fixed missing cdm_schema attribute in cdm_reference when using remote databases (e.g., SQL Server).
Implemented dynamic, unique schema names (prefixed with cdm_testgenerator_) to prevent database collisions.
Fixed patientsCDM() to ensure the correct remote CDM reference is returned during the injection process.
Added regression tests to verify cdm_schema attribute presence and CohortConstructor compatibility on SQL Server.
Removed DARWIN_ prefix from environment variables to run tests on SQL Server and Postgres.

From NEWS.md in the release

Install

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

install.packages("TestGenerator", 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("darwin-eu/TestGenerator")

Development version from darwin-eu/TestGenerator. 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-testgenerator

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-TestGenerator

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-TestGenerator

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: 4.5 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
OK14 OK2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 0.8.0

READMEYes · 388 wordsVignettesYes · 3 · staticNEWSYes · 100% structured · mentions 0.8.0Citation fileNoWebsiteYes · pkgdown

Help pages: 11
Examples that run: 50%3 run in a plain check · 2 only when donttest examples are enabled (R CMD check --as-cran) · 1 never run
Exported functions with examples: 67%
Documented parameters: 97%
Return-value docs: 100%
Help pages citing references: 0%

Vignettes (3)

How these are measured

Downloads

6.9K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #6,576 · ~19/day · ~571/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

59530 days

1.3K90 days

6.9K1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on113 r2u4 autocran

How downloads are counted

Repository

darwin-eu/testgenerator ↗Organization: darwin-eu

0Stars

2Forks

0Open issues

0Open PRs

5Releases

296Commits

6Commit identities

License file reads as Apache-2.0 · 296 commits · Last activity 2026-05-18

Responsiveness

How these are sampled

PRs merged (all time): not measured
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed issues: 7
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed PRs: not measured

Forks over time

2025-06-26 · 12026-07-07 · 2

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/darwin-eu/testgenerator on 2026-10-11.

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 2026-05-18 · 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 v3 (2026-09-26)

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

26 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing TestGenerator adds 80 packages (42 with compiled code, 50 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: stringi 11 MB, duckdb 4.6 MB, CDMConnector 4.0 MB.

Depends (1)

R >= 4.1.0

Imports (20)

jsonlite readxl readr CDMConnector DBI dplyr checkmate glue duckdb cli rlang withr tibble testthat openxlsx omopgenerics RPostgres fs stringr usethis

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (6)

knitr rmarkdown curl httr odbc CohortConstructor

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

0direct

0indirect

Suggested by 1

Suggests, most downloaded first

PatientGenerator

How these are counted

Code & Tests

Datasets

People & History

People (4)

Cesar Barboza

Author, Maintainer since 0.8.0 (2026)

Adam Black

Author

Ger Inberg

Author

Ioanna Nika

Author · added in 0.3.3

Previously maintained by Ger Inberg (0.4.0 to 0.7.0) and Cesar Barboza (0.2.5 to 0.3.3).

Releases (8)

Pick two releases to compare their code metrics.

0.8.0Latest
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2026-04-30 · current release · diff ↗ ·
added 1 export
useGithubAction
0.7.0
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2026-04-30 · diff ↗
R
R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
0.6.0
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2026-04-16 · diff ↗ ·
added 1 export
cleanupTestCdm
0.5.0
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2026-01-14 · diff ↗
unarchivedReturned to CRAN
2025-05-27
0.4.0
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2025-05-27 · diff ↗
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R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11
archivedRemoved from CRAN
2025-03-31
issues were not corrected despite reminders
0.3.3
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2024-11-08 · diff ↗ ·
added 1 export
generateTestTables
0.3.1
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2024-05-28 · diff ↗ ·
added 4 exports
downloadTestData, graphCohort, readPatients.csv, readPatients.xl
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R 4.4.0 released · 2024-04-24
0.2.5
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2024-02-01
R
R 4.3.0 released · 2023-04-21

Package metadata

First published: 2024-02-01
Total releases: 8 / 2 yrs
License: Apache License (>= 2)
Minimum R: ≥ 4.1.0
Download size: 733 KB

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citation("TestGenerator")

Format

Barboza, C., Black, A., Inberg, G., & Nika, I. (2026). TestGenerator: Integration Unit Tests for Pharmacoepidemiological Studies (Version 0.8.0) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.TestGenerator

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Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for TestGenerator version 0.8.0 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-19. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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