R Observatory: Metrics for WHO version 0.2.1

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

This package was removed from CRAN on 2019-11-25. Its history is shown below.

Reason: policy violation. Repeated failure of Internet access and notification ignored

Details below reflect version 0.2.1, its last release before removal.

WHO

0.2.1Package record

R Client for the World Health Organization API

0packages depend

–downloads / year

–test coverage

–flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Eric PerssonCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Website ↗

Provides programmatic access to the World Health Organization API.

Install

R (source archive)pak (dev)

url <- "https://cran.r-project.org/src/contrib/Archive/WHO/WHO_0.2.1.tar.gz"
pkgFile <- "WHO_0.2.1.tar.gz"
download.file(url, pkgFile)
install.packages(pkgFile, type = "source", repos = NULL)

This package is no longer on CRAN, so install.packages() cannot fetch it by name. This downloads the last archived source (0.2.1) and builds it locally. Install its dependencies first, and note that building from source needs the usual compiler toolchain.

if (!requireNamespace("pak", quietly = TRUE))
  install.packages("pak", repos = "https://cloud.r-project.org/")
pak::pak("expersso/WHO")

Development version from expersso/WHO. Installs pak first if it is not already available.

Health

CRAN checks

CRAN check results are not tracked yet.

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 0.2.1

READMENoVignettesYes · 1 · dynamicNEWSNoCitation fileNoWebsiteYes

Help pages: 2
Examples that run: 100%2 run in a plain check
Exported functions with examples: 100%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 100%
Help pages citing references: 0%

How these are measured

Downloads

WHO Releases R versions

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Dependencies

Declared dependencies

6 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Depends (0)

none

Imports (2)

httr dplyr

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (4)

ggplot2 knitr testthat rmarkdown

Enhances (0)

none

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Reverse dependencies

0direct

–indirect (not tracked)

Nothing depends on this yet.

How these are counted

Code & Tests

People & History

People (1)

Eric Persson

Author, Maintainer since 0.1 (2016)

Releases (3)

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R 4.0.0 released · 2020-04-24
archivedRemoved from CRAN
2019-11-25
policy violation Repeated failure of Internet access and notification ignored
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2019-10-28 · diff ↗
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R 3.6.0 released · 2019-04-26
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R 3.5.0 released · 2018-04-23
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R 3.4.0 released · 2017-04-21
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R 3.3.0 released · 2016-05-03
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2016-04-02 · diff ↗
0.1
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2016-02-05
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R 3.2.0 released · 2015-04-16

Package metadata

First published: 2016-02-05
Total releases: 3 / 10 yrs
License: CC0

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("WHO")

Format

Persson, E. (n.d.). WHO: R Client for the World Health Organization API (Version 0.2.1) [Computer software]. Retrieved October 27, 2026, from https://CRAN.R-project.org/package=WHO

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 WHO version 0.2.1 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-26. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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