R Observatory: Metrics for epidict version 0.3.0

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

epidict

0.3.0Package record

Epidemiology Data Dictionaries and Random Data Generators

1packages depend

3.3Kdownloads / year

97.4%test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Alexander SpinaCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Website ↗Declared funder: Medecins Sans Frontieres Operational Centre Amsterdam

The 'R4EPIs' project https://r4epi.github.io/sitrep/ seeks to provide a set of standardized tools for analysis of outbreak and survey data in humanitarian aid settings. This package currently provides standardized data dictionaries from Medecins Sans Frontieres Operational Centre Amsterdam for outbreak scenarios (Acute Jaundice Syndrome, Cholera, Diphtheria, Measles, Meningitis) and surveys (Retrospective mortality and access to care, Malnutrition, Vaccination coverage and Event Based Surveillance) - as described in the following https://scienceportal.msf.org/assets/standardised-mortality-surveys?utm_source=chatgpt.com. In addition, a data generator from these dictionaries is provided. It is also possible to read in any Open Data Kit format data dictionary.

Changes in 0.3.0

Update intersectional dictionaries
add a logical "clean" argument to read_dict() and msf_dict() with default TRUE
adjust so that for "AJS_intersectional" dictionaries it does not clean variable names

From NEWS.md in the release

Install

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

install.packages("epidict", 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("R4EPI/epidict")

Development version from R4EPI/epidict. 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-epidict

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-epidict

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-epidict

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: 1.8 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 0.3.0

READMEYes · 345 wordsVignettesYes · 3 · dynamicNEWSYes · 100% structured · mentions 0.3.0Citation fileNoWebsiteYes · pkgdown

Help pages: 6 (1 internal)includes a package overview page
Examples that run: 100%2 run in a plain check
Exported functions with examples: 40%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 100%
Help pages citing references: 0%

Vignettes (3)

How these are measured

Downloads

3.3K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #16,490 · ~9/day · ~275/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

28330 days

76190 days

3.3K1 year

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How downloads are counted

Repository

r4epi/epidict ↗Organization: R4EPI

3Stars

1Forks

1Open issues

1Open PRs

4Releases

219Commits

3Commit identities

License file reads as GPL-3.0 · 219 commits · Last activity 2026-01-20

Responsiveness

How these are sampled

PRs merged (all time): 96%
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed issues: 80
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed PRs: 0

Stars over time

2024-04-01 · 32026-07-07 · 3

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

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

Checks run against github.com/r4epi/epidict 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

Governance and community (4)

Code of conductContributing guideIssue templatesSupport guide

Docs source (4)

README.Rmdpkgdown

GitHub Pages site last deployed 2026-01-20 · The repository has a site deploy workflow

pkgdown site last built 2026-01-20

Coverage (1)

Coverage reporting (Codecov)

Show all practicesHide 2 practices

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

14 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing epidict adds 28 packages (13 with compiled code, 20 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: stringi 11 MB, readxl 2.1 MB, vctrs 1.0 MB.

Depends (0)

none

Imports (8)

clipr dplyr readxl rlangstatstibble tidyrutils

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (8)

covr DT knitr matchmaker rmarkdown sitrep testthat (>= 2.1.0)withr

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

1direct

0indirect

Imports 1

Depends, Imports or LinkingTo, most downloaded first

sitrep

How these are counted

Code & Tests

Datasets

People & History

People (7)

Alexander Spina

Author, Maintainer since 0.1.0 (2025)

Author

Author

Author

Contributor

Applied Epi Incorporated

Copyright holder

Medecins Sans Frontieres Operational Centre Amsterdam

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Releases (3)

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Package metadata

First published: 2025-11-13
Total releases: 3 / 1 yrs
License: GPL-3 OSI
Download size: 476 KB

Cite

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citation("epidict")

Format

Spina, A., Applied Epi Incorporated, Medecins Sans Frontieres Operational Centre Amsterdam, Kamvar, Z. N., Keating, P., Lenglet, A., & Richter, L. (2026). epidict: Epidemiology Data Dictionaries and Random Data Generators (Version 0.3.0) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.epidict

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Format

APA

Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for epidict version 0.3.0 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-23. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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