R Observatory: Metrics for decompositionLE version 1.0.0

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

decompositionLE

1.0.0Package record

Provides Easy Methods to Perform Life Expectancy Decomposition

0packages depend

2.1Kdownloads / year

49.2%test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Victor YuCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Issues ↗

Provides an easy to use implementation of life expectancy decomposition formulas for age bands, derived from Ponnapalli, K. (2005). A comparison of different methods for decomposition of changes in expectation of life at birth and differentials in life expectancy at birth. Demographic Research, 12, pp.141–172. doi:10.4054/demres.2005.12.7 In addition, there is a decomposition function for disease cause breakdown and a couple helpful plot functions.

Changes in 1.0.0

Initial CRAN submission.

From NEWS.md in the release

Install

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

install.packages("decompositionLE", 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("herts-phei/decompositionLE")

Development version from herts-phei/decompositionLE. 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-decompositionle

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-decompositionLE

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-decompositionLE

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: 1.7 min · r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

Status changes

OK13 OK2026-08-05
NOTE12 OK, 1 NOTE2026-08-01
OK14 OK2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 1.0.0

READMEYes · 216 wordsVignettesNoNEWSYes · 67% structured · mentions 1.0.0Citation fileNoWebsitenot declared in DESCRIPTION

Help pages: 6
Examples that run: 100%2 run in a plain check
Exported functions with examples: 50%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 100%
Help pages citing references: 0%

How these are measured

Downloads

2.1K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #22,219 · ~6/day · ~175/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

20530 days

59690 days

2.1K1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on64 r2u7 autocran

How downloads are counted

Repository

herts-phei/decompositionle ↗Organization: herts-phei

2Stars

0Forks

1Open issues

0Open PRs

0Releases

73Commits

4Commit identities

License file reads as GPL-3.0 · 73 commits · Last activity 2025-12-09 · 0% stars, 30d

Responsiveness

How these are sampled

PRs merged (all time): 100%
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed issues: not measured
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed PRs: 2

Stars over time

2025-12-10 · 12026-07-07 · 2

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

8 development-tooling and community-health practices detected across 6 families in the upstream repository

Checks run against github.com/herts-phei/decompositionle on 2026-10-21.

Continuous integration (2)

GitHub ActionsR CMD check workflow

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

Docs source (1)

README.Rmd

Coverage (1)

Coverage reporting (Codecov)

Reproducibility and dev environment (1)

data-raw/

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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

10 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing decompositionLE adds 29 packages (15 with compiled code, 28 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: stringi 11 MB, ggplot2 6.0 MB, isoband 1.5 MB.

Depends (1)

R >= 4.1.0

Imports (7)

dplyr magrittr stringr tidyr purrr ggplot2 rlang

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (3)

testthat tibble forcats

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

0direct

0indirect

Nothing depends on this yet.

How these are counted

Code & Tests

Datasets

People & History

People (3)

Victor Yu

Emily Dickson

Contributor

Will Yuill

Contributor

Releases (1)

R
R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
1.0.0Latest
record
2025-12-09 · current release
R
R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11

Package metadata

First published: 2025-12-09
Total releases: 1 / 1 yrs
License: GPL (>= 3) OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 4.1.0
Bundled data: 2.1 KB / 2 files
Download size: 16 KB

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("decompositionLE")

Format

Yu, V., Dickson, E., & Yuill, W. (2025). decompositionLE: Provides Easy Methods to Perform Life Expectancy Decomposition (Version 1.0.0) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.decompositionLE

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 decompositionLE version 1.0.0 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-23. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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