R Observatory: Metrics for epikit version 0.2.0

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

epikit

0.2.0Package record

Miscellaneous Helper Tools for Epidemiologists

2packages depend

13.7Kdownloads / year

85.1%test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

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

Contains tools for formatting inline code, renaming redundant columns, aggregating age categories, adding survey weights, finding the earliest date of an event, plotting z-curves, generating population counts and formatting proportions with confidence intervals. This is part of the 'R4Epis' project https://r4epi.github.io/sitrep/.

Changes in 0.2.0

proportion functions moved to epitabulate package
improved behaviour of find_date_cause(), find_end_date(), find_start_date() on filling dates outside the period and appropriately warning
allowed for a floor argument in age_categories() to label the lowest group of "<1" rather than "0-0"
improved documentation and reduced dependencies

From NEWS.md in the release

Install

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

install.packages("epikit", 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/epikit")

Development version from R4EPI/epikit. 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-epikit

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-epikit

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-epikit

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: 2.3 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 0.2.0

READMEYes · 864 wordsVignettesYes · 1 · dynamicNEWSYes · 100% structured · mentions 0.2.0Citation fileNoWebsiteYes · pkgdown

Help pages: 15 (2 internal)includes a package overview page
Examples that run: 100%13 run in a plain check (2 of them under a condition)
Exported functions with examples: 93%
Documented parameters: 95%
Return-value docs: 64%
Help pages citing references: 7%

Vignettes (1)

Introduction to epikit HTML

How these are measured

Downloads

13.7K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #3,429 · ~38/day · ~1.1K/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

1.2K30 days

3.1K90 days

13.7K1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on113 r2u5 autocran

How downloads are counted

Repository

r4epi/epikit ↗Organization: R4EPI

10Stars

1Forks

0Open issues

0Open PRs

6Releases

153Commits

4Commit identities

License file reads as GPL-3.0 · 153 commits · Last activity 2025-11-09

Responsiveness

How these are sampled

PRs merged (all time): 100%
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed issues: 153
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed PRs: 0

Stars over time

2024-12-23 · 102026-07-07 · 10

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

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

Checks run against github.com/r4epi/epikit on 2026-10-18.

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 2025-11-09 · The repository has a site deploy workflow

pkgdown site last built 2025-11-09

Coverage (1)

Coverage reporting (Codecov)

Show all practicesHide 2 practices

CRAN release process (1)

cran-comments.md

Lint, format, editor (1)

RStudio project

How this is detected·Detection ruleset v3 (2026-09-26)

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

15 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing epikit adds 39 packages (23 with compiled code, 45 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: stringi 11 MB, sf 9.3 MB, ggplot2 6.0 MB.

Depends (0)

none

Imports (10)

scales dplyr rlang forcats tidyr tibble glue tidyselect ggplot2 sf

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (5)

testthat covr knitr magrittr rmarkdown

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

2direct

0indirect

Imports 2

Depends, Imports or LinkingTo, most downloaded first

sitrep epitabulate

How these are counted

Code & Tests

Datasets

People & History

People (6)

Alexander Spina

Author, Maintainer since 0.2.0 (2025) · added in 0.1.5

Zhian N. Kamvar

Author

Dirk Schumacher

Author

Kate Doyle

Contributor

Applied Epi Incorporated

Copyright holder · added in 0.2.0

Medecins Sans Frontieres Operational Centre Amsterdam

Funder · added in 0.2.0

Previously maintained by Zhian N. Kamvar (0.1.0 to 0.1.6).

Listed in earlier versions (1)

Alex Spina

no longer listed · 0.1.0 to 0.1.2

Releases (6)

Pick two releases to compare their code metrics.

R
R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
0.2.0Latest
record
2025-11-06 · current release · diff ↗ ·
removed 4 exports
attack_rate, case_fatality_rate, case_fatality_rate_df, mortality_rate
R
R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11
R
R 4.4.0 released · 2024-04-24
0.1.6
record
2024-01-23 · diff ↗
R
R 4.3.0 released · 2023-04-21
0.1.5
record
2023-02-15 · diff ↗ ·
added 10 exports
add_weights_cluster, add_weights_strata, assert_positive_timespan, constrain_dates, find_date_cause, find_end_date, find_start_date, gen_polygon, gen_population, zcurve
R
R 4.2.0 released · 2022-04-22
R
R 4.1.0 released · 2021-05-18
0.1.2
record
2020-09-07 · diff ↗
R
R 4.0.0 released · 2020-04-24
0.1.1
record
2020-04-13 · diff ↗
0.1.0
record
2020-03-05
R
R 3.6.0 released · 2019-04-26

Package metadata

First published: 2020-03-05
Total releases: 6 / 6 yrs
License: GPL-3 OSI
Download size: 127 KB

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Epidemiology

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Format

Spina, A., Applied Epi Incorporated, Medecins Sans Frontieres Operational Centre Amsterdam, Doyle, K., Kamvar, Z. N., & Schumacher, D. (2025). epikit: Miscellaneous Helper Tools for Epidemiologists (Version 0.2.0) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.epikit

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Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for epikit version 0.2.0 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-21. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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