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Interface to Health Canada Drug Product Database API

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Overview

About

A programmatic interface to Health Canada's Drug Product Database (DPD) REST API for querying information about drugs approved for use in Canada. More information on the DPD can be found in the API guide (https://health-products.canada.ca/api/documentation/dpd-documentation-en.html).

Changes in 0.1.0
  • Initial public release.

From NEWS.md in the release

Install

Health

CRAN checks
13OK
Slowest check: 1.5 min · r-oldrel-macos-x86_64
Status changes
  • OK13 OK2026-08-05
  • NOTE12 OK, 1 NOTE2026-08-01
  • OK13 OK2026-07-15
  • ERROR10 OK, 3 ERROR2026-07-11
  • OK13 OK2026-04-29
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  • ERROR12 OK, 1 ERROR2026-04-28
  • OK14 OK2026-04-19
  • ERROR13 OK, 1 ERROR2026-04-16
  • OK14 OK2026-04-07
  • ERROR13 OK, 1 ERROR2026-04-06
  • OK14 OK2026-03-10
Advisories

none known

Documentation

In release 0.1.0
READMEYes · 372 wordsVignettesNoNEWSYes · 67% structured · mentions 0.1.0Citation fileNoWebsiteYes · pkgdown
Help pages
12 (1 internal)includes a package overview page
Examples that run
100%11 run in a plain check
Exported functions with examples
100%
Documented parameters
100%
Return-value docs
100%
Help pages citing references
0%

Downloads

1.5K
CRAN downloads in the past year
Rank #22,426 · ~4/day · ~129/mo
Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.
24130 days
58290 days
1.5K1 year
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Repository

0Stars
1Forks
0Open issues
0Open PRs
1Releases
20Commits
1Commit identities
20 commits · Last activity 2026-03-02 · Default branch at 0.1.0.9000, ahead of CRAN 0.1.0 (checked 2026-10-11)
Responsiveness
How these are sampled
PRs merged (all time)
not measured
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed issues
8
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed PRs
not measured

Forks over time

2026-07-14 · 02026-09-04 · 1
PracticesBeta

8 development-tooling and community-health practices detected across 4 families in the upstream repository

Checks run against github.com/mattwarkentin/dpdr on 2026-10-11.

Continuous integration (2)
GitHub ActionsR CMD check workflow

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

Governance and community (1)
Code of conduct
Docs source (4)
README.Rmdpkgdown

GitHub Pages site last deployed 2026-03-02 · The repository has a site deploy workflow

pkgdown site last built 2026-03-02

CRAN release process (1)
cran-comments.md
How this is detected·Detection ruleset v3 (2026-09-26)

Dependencies

Declared dependencies
6 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing dpdr adds 21 packages (14 with compiled code, 7.4 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: openssl 1.1 MB, jsonlite 1.0 MB, vctrs 1.0 MB.

Depends (1)
R >= 4.1.0
LinkingTo (0)
none
Suggests (0)
none
Enhances (0)
none
Reverse dependencies
0direct
0indirect

Nothing depends on this yet.

People & History

People (1)
Author, Maintainer since 0.1.0 (2026), Copyright holder
Releases (1)
  • R
    R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
  • 0.1.0Latest
    2026-03-02 · current release
  • R
    R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11

Package metadata

First published
2026-03-02
Total releases
1 / 1 yrs
License
MIT + file LICENSE OSI
Minimum R
≥ 4.1.0
Download size
13 KB

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("dpdr")
Warkentin, M. T. (2026). dpdr: Interface to Health Canada Drug Product Database API (Version 0.1.0) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.dpdr

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.

APA

Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for dpdr version 0.1.0 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-19. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

From data release v2026-10-19, which the citation names so these numbers can be found later. More on citing and the projects behind them.

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