R Observatory: Metrics for epidesc version 0.1.0

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

epidesc

0.1.0

Calculation of Epidemiological Descriptors

0packages depend

124downloads / year

97.8%test coverage

13/13checks pass

Overview

About

Maintained by Carles MilàFirst published 2026-08-081 releasesCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗

Provides tools to easily compute a series of epidemiological indicators to characterise different transmission profiles of infectious diseases with a simple pipeline: format the dates in epiyearweek format, choose the descriptors and their parameters, and compute them. The package is based on the publication 'How heterogeneous is the dengue transmission profile in Brazil? A study in six Brazilian states' doi:10.1371/journal.pntd.0010746.

Install

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

install.packages("epidesc", 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("BSC-ES/epidesc")

Development version from BSC-ES/epidesc. Installs pak first if it is not already available.

# 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-epidesc

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-epidesc

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

Health

CRAN checks

13OK

Slowest check: 1.2 min · r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

Code health

Yes

Tests · ratio 0.57

97.8%

Coverage · measured lines

100%

Documentation · exports

2

Dependencies · direct

Check history

OK2026-08-08
6 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE

Documentation

READMEYes · 763 wordsVignettesYes · dynamicpkgdown siteNoNEWSYes · 67% structuredCode of conductNoContributing guideNo

Examples that run: 100%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 100%
References docs: 0%

Downloads

124

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #24,776 · ~0/day · ~10/mo

epidesc Releases R versions

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Repository

GitHub ↗ bsc-es/epidesc

3Stars

0Forks

0Open issues

0Open PRs

1Releases

37Commits

6Contributors

License GPL-2.0 · 37 commits · Last activity 2026-08-21

Stars over time

2026-08-08 · 02026-08-20 · 3

Repository practices

Upstream repositoryBeta

2 development-tooling and community-health practices detected across 2 families in the upstream repository

Checks run against github.com/bsc-es/epidesc on 2026-08-16.

Continuous integration (1)

GitHub Actions

CRAN release process (1)

cran-comments.md

How this is detected·Detection ruleset v1 (2026-07-18)

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

5 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Depends (1)

R >= 4.1.0

Imports (2)

lubridate nseq

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (3)

knitr rmarkdown testthat

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

0direct

0indirect

Nothing depends on this yet.

Code & Tests

Datasets

People & History

People (9)

Maintainer (1)

Carles Milà

Author, Maintainer

Authors (9)

Carles Milà

Author, Maintainer

Christovam Barcellos

Author

Claudia Torres Codeço

Author

Author

Author

Author

Author

Diego Ricardo Xavier Silva

Author

Iasmin Ferreira de Almeida

Author

Package Timeline

1 release. R releases are shown for context.

0.1.0Latest
2026-08-08 · current release
R
R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24

Package metadata

First published: 2026-08-08
Total releases: 1 / 1 yrs
License: GPL (>= 2) OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 4.1.0
Bundled data: 15 KB / 1 file
Download size: 73 KB
Installed size: not tracked yet
With dependencies: not tracked yet

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("epidesc")

Format

Milà, C., Barcellos, C., Codeço, C. T., Lana, R. M., Lowe, R., Lührsen, D., Saldanha, R., Silva, D. R. X., & de Almeida, I. F. (2026). epidesc: Calculation of Epidemiological Descriptors (Version 0.1.0) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.epidesc

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Format

APA

Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for epidesc version 0.1.0 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-08-21. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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