R Observatory: Metrics for cancerscreening version 1.1.1

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

This package was removed from CRAN on 2026-03-25. Its history is shown below.

Reason: requires archived package 'khisr'

Details below reflect version 1.1.1, its last release before removal.

cancerscreening

1.1.1Package record

Streamline Access to Cancer Screening Data

0packages depend

3Kdownloads / year

–test coverage

–flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by David KariukiCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Website ↗

Retrieve cancer screening data for cervical, breast and colorectal cancers from the Kenya Health Information System https://hiskenya.org in a consistent way.

Changes in 1.1.1

This release streamlines the khisr package by focusing on its core functionality: retrieving screening data for the MOH 745 screening tool.
**Refactored Functionality:** Previously available functions for retrieving data element metadata, organization unit metadata, and formatted datasets have been migrated to the dedicated khisr package. This enhances code organization and avoids redundancy.
**New Function:** We've introduced the get_screening_reporting_analytics() function to retrieve reporting metrics associated with the MOH 745 screening tool.

From NEWS.md in the release

Install

R (source archive)pak (dev)

url <- "https://cran.r-project.org/src/contrib/Archive/cancerscreening/cancerscreening_1.1.1.tar.gz"
pkgFile <- "cancerscreening_1.1.1.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 (1.1.1) 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("damurka/cancerscreening")

Development version from damurka/cancerscreening. Installs pak first if it is not already available.

Health

CRAN checks

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Status changes

OK14 OK2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

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Documentation

In release 1.1.1

READMEYes · 347 wordsVignettesYes · 1 · dynamicNEWSYes · 100% structured · mentions 1.1.1Citation fileNoWebsiteYes

Help pages: 21 (2 internal)includes a package overview page
Examples that run: 95%18 run in a plain check (16 of them under a condition) · 1 never run
Exported functions with examples: 95%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 95%
Help pages citing references: 0%

How these are measured

Downloads

3K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #25,761 · ~8/day · ~253/mo

Releases R versions

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030 days

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3K1 year

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Dependencies

Declared dependencies

13 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Depends (1)

R >= 3.3

Imports (9)

cli dplyr khisr lubridate magrittr rlang stringr tidyr withr

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (4)

knitr rmarkdown spelling testthat

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

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Nothing depends on this yet.

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Code & Tests

People & History

People (1)

David Kariuki

Releases (3)

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R
R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
archivedRemoved from CRAN
2026-03-25
requires archived package 'khisr'
R
R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11
1.1.1
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2024-06-12 · diff ↗ ·
removed 3 exports
get_data_elements_metadata, get_data_sets_formatted, get_organisation_units_metadata

added 1 export
get_screening_reporting_analytics
R
R 4.4.0 released · 2024-04-24
1.1.0
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2024-04-14 · diff ↗ ·
removed 2 exports
get_analytics, get_category_options_metadata

added 8 exports
get_analytics_formatted, get_data_sets_formatted, get_lab_bone_marrow, get_lab_fluid_cytology, get_lab_fna, get_lab_smears, get_lab_tissue_histology, khis_base_url
1.0.2
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2024-01-09
R
R 4.3.0 released · 2023-04-21

Package metadata

First published: 2024-01-09
Total releases: 3 / 2 yrs
License: MIT + file LICENSE OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 3.3
Download size: 150 KB

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("cancerscreening")

Format

Kariuki, D. (n.d.). cancerscreening: Streamline Access to Cancer Screening Data (Version 1.1.1) [Computer software]. Retrieved October 27, 2026, from https://CRAN.R-project.org/package=cancerscreening

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

Cite the R Observatory

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Format

APA

Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for cancerscreening version 1.1.1 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-26. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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