drugprepr

0.0.7

Prepare Electronic Prescription Record Data to Estimate Drug Exposure

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7/7checks pass

Overview

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Maintained by David SelbyFirst published 2026-07-232 releasesCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗

Prepare prescription data (such as from the Clinical Practice Research Datalink) into an analysis-ready format, with start and stop dates for each patient's prescriptions. Based on Pye et al (2018) doi:10.1002/pds.4440.

Install

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

install.packages("drugprepr", 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("belayb/drugprepr")

Development version from belayb/drugprepr. 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-drugprepr

Fast Ubuntu binaries via r2u (no compilation). The cranapt setup runs once and is skipped when it is already enabled.

bspm (used by r2u) also needs make: sudo apt install make

# 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-drugprepr

RPMs auto-built from CRAN on openSUSE OBS (Tumbleweed).

Health

CRAN checks

7OK

Slowest check: 3.9 min · r-release-macos-x86_64

Check history

OK2026-07-24
7 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE

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Repository

GitHub ↗ belayb/drugprepr

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Last activity 2026-07-23

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Dependencies

Declared dependencies

12 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Depends (1)

R >= 2.10

Imports (8)

dplyr rlang tidyr sqldf stringr purrr DescTools doseminer

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David Selby

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Package Timeline

2 releases. R releases are shown for context.

0.0.7Latest
2026-07-23 · current release · diff ↗
unarchivedReturned to CRAN
2026-07-23
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R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
archivedRemoved from CRAN
2025-12-09
requires archived package 'doseminer'
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R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11
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R 4.4.0 released · 2024-04-24
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R 4.3.0 released · 2023-04-21
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R 4.2.0 released · 2022-04-22
0.0.4
2021-11-09
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R 4.1.0 released · 2021-05-18

Package metadata

First published: 2026-07-23
Total releases: 2 / 1 yrs
License: MIT + file LICENSE OSI
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