R Observatory: Metrics for WHORiskCalculator version 1.0.0

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

WHORiskCalculator

1.0.0Package record

WHO Cardiovascular Disease Risk Calculator

0packages depend

2.3Kdownloads / year

0.0%test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Andrea PedotCRAN page ↗

Implements the 2019 World Health Organization (WHO) cardiovascular disease (CVD) risk prediction models, as described in Kaptoge et al. (2019) doi:10.1016/S2214-109X(19)30318-3. Provides two validated models for estimating 10-year risk of fatal and non-fatal cardiovascular events (myocardial infarction and stroke): a laboratory-based model using age, sex, systolic blood pressure, total cholesterol, smoking status, and diabetes history; and a non-laboratory-based model substituting body mass index (BMI) for cholesterol and diabetes, suitable for resource-limited settings. Risk estimates are recalibrated to 21 Global Burden of Disease regions using region-specific incidence rates and risk factor distributions derived from the Emerging Risk Factors Collaboration. Functions are fully vectorized for efficient batch calculations and support automatic country-to-region mapping via ISO 3166-1 alpha-3 country codes.

Changes in 1.0.0

Initial CRAN submission.

From NEWS.md in the release

Install

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

install.packages("WHORiskCalculator", 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-whoriskcalculator

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-WHORiskCalculator

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-WHORiskCalculator

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: 50 s · r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

Status changes

OK13 OK2026-08-05
NOTE12 OK, 1 NOTE2026-08-01
OK6 OK2026-04-08

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 1.0.0

READMEYes · 561 wordsVignettesNoNEWSYes · 67% structured · mentions 1.0.0Citation fileNoWebsitenot declared in DESCRIPTION

Help pages: 6 (1 internal)includes a package overview page
Examples that run: 100%5 run in a plain check
Exported functions with examples: 100%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 100%
Help pages citing references: 17%

How these are measured

Downloads

2.3K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #15,577 · ~6/day · ~191/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

31330 days

78890 days

2.3K1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on41 r2u3 autocran

How downloads are counted

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

3 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

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

Depends (0)

none

Imports (0)

none

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (3)

devtools renv spelling

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

0direct

0indirect

Nothing depends on this yet.

How these are counted

Code & Tests

People & History

People (2)

Andrea Pedot

Maintainer since 1.0.0 (2026), Contributor

WHO CVD Risk Chart Working Group

Author

Releases (1)

R
R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
1.0.0Latest
record
2026-04-07 · current release
R
R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11

Package metadata

First published: 2026-04-07
Total releases: 1 / 1 yrs
License: MIT + file LICENSE OSI
Download size: 14 KB

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("WHORiskCalculator")

Format

Pedot, A., & WHO CVD Risk Chart Working Group. (2026). WHORiskCalculator: WHO Cardiovascular Disease Risk Calculator (Version 1.0.0) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.WHORiskCalculator

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 WHORiskCalculator version 1.0.0 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-22. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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