R Observatory: Metrics for healthdb version 0.5.1

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

healthdb

0.5.1Package record

Working with Healthcare Databases

0packages depend

3.8Kdownloads / year

92.4%test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Kevin HuCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Website ↗Issues ↗

A system for identifying diseases or events from healthcare databases and preparing data for epidemiological studies. It includes capabilities not supported by 'SQL', such as matching strings by 'stringr' style regular expressions, and can compute comorbidity scores (Quan et al. (2005) doi:10.1097/01.mlr.0000182534.19832.83) directly on a database server. The implementation is based on 'dbplyr' with full 'tidyverse' compatibility.

Changes in 0.5.1

Updated identify_row() to accommodate changes in upcoming 'dbplyr' release - Thanks the 'dbplyr' devs for the fix!
fixed an error caused by changes in 'data.table'

From NEWS.md in the release

Install

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

install.packages("healthdb", 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("KevinHzq/healthdb")

Development version from KevinHzq/healthdb. 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-healthdb

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-healthdb

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-healthdb

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: 2.8 min · r-release-macos-x86_64

Status changes

OK13 OK2026-08-05
NOTE12 OK, 1 NOTE2026-08-01
OK13 OK2026-06-09
ERROR12 OK, 1 ERROR2026-06-08
OK14 OK2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 0.5.1

READMEYes · 487 wordsVignettesYes · 1 · dynamicNEWSYes · 100% structured · mentions 0.5.1Citation fileNoWebsiteYes · pkgdown

Help pages: 21 (2 internal)includes a package overview page
Examples that run: 100%19 run in a plain check
Exported functions with examples: 95%
Documented parameters: 99%
Return-value docs: 100%
Help pages citing references: 5%

Vignettes (1)

Introduction to healthdb HTML

How these are measured

Downloads

3.8K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #9,307 · ~10/day · ~314/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

34130 days

1.1K90 days

3.8K1 year

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How downloads are counted

Repository

kevinhzq/healthdb ↗Account: KevinHzq

2Stars

2Forks

0Open issues

0Open PRs

8Releases

262Commits

4Commit identities

262 commits · Last activity 2026-07-31 · 0% stars, 30d · Default branch at 0.5.1.9000, ahead of CRAN 0.5.1 (checked 2026-10-21)

Responsiveness

How these are sampled

PRs merged (all time): 100%
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed issues: 6
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed PRs: 0

Stars over time

2024-09-25 · 22026-07-07 · 2

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

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

Checks run against github.com/kevinhzq/healthdb 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

Docs source (4)

README.Rmdpkgdown

GitHub Pages site last deployed 2026-07-31 · The repository has a site deploy workflow

pkgdown site last built 2026-07-31

Coverage (1)

Coverage reporting (Codecov)

Reproducibility and dev environment (1)

data-raw/

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CRAN release process (1)

cran-comments.md

Lint, format, editor (1)

RStudio project

How this is detected·Detection ruleset v4 (2026-10-20)

AI coding toolsBeta

This repository shows signs of AI coding tools.

Claude Codefirst seen 2026-06-09
Named in .Rbuildignore: .claude
Pull request it wrote: opened by a project member
Commits: at least 29 crediting it in the message

Models named in its commits

Claude Fable 519 commits · Jun 2026
Claude Opus 4.86 commits · Jun 2026
Claude Opus 54 commits · Jul 2026

Counts are commits, not lines of code. Commits by a tool's accounts count once across all of its accounts. Commits crediting it are the largest count among its credit lines, a minimum.How this is detected·Detection ruleset v4 (updated 2026-09-27)

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

16 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing healthdb adds 28 packages (17 with compiled code, 26 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: stringi 11 MB, data.table 5.7 MB, vctrs 1.0 MB.

Depends (0)

none

Imports (11)

clock data.table dbplyr dplyr (>= 1.1.0)glue lubridate magrittr purrr rlang stringr (>= 1.5.0)tidyr

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (5)

knitr rmarkdown testthat withr RSQLite

Enhances (0)

none

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Reverse dependencies

0direct

0indirect

Nothing depends on this yet.

How these are counted

Code & Tests

People & History

People (1)

Kevin Hu

Releases (8)

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Package metadata

First published: 2024-04-27
Total releases: 8 / 2 yrs
License: MIT + file LICENSE OSI
Download size: 179 KB

Cite

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citation("healthdb")

Format

Hu, K. (2026). healthdb: Working with Healthcare Databases (Version 0.5.1) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.healthdb

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Format

APA

Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for healthdb version 0.5.1 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-25. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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