healthiar

0.2.4

Quantifying and Monetizing Health Impacts Attributable to Exposure

0packages depend

2.5Kdownloads / year

94.7%test coverage

13/13checks pass

Overview

About

Maintained by Alberto CastroFirst published 2025-11-115 releasesCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗

This R package has been developed with a focus on air pollution and noise but can be applied to other exposures. The initial development has been funded by the European Union project BEST-COST. Disclaimer: It is work in progress and the developers are not liable for any calculation errors or inaccuracies resulting from the use of this package. Selection of relevant references (in chronological order): WHO (2003) https://www.who.int/publications/i/item/9241546204, Murray et al. (2003) doi:10.1186/1478-7954-1-1, Miller & Hurley (2003) doi:10.1136/jech.57.3.200, Steenland & Armstrong (2006) doi:10.1097/01.ede.0000229155.05644.43, WHO (2011) https://iris.who.int/items/723ab97c-5c33-4e3b-8df1-744aa5bc1c27, GBD 2019 Risk Factors Collaborators (2020) doi:10.1016/S0140-6736(20)30752-2.

Install

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

install.packages("healthiar", 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("SwissTPH/healthiar")

Development version from SwissTPH/healthiar. 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-healthiar

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

# 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-healthiar

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-healthiar

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

Health

CRAN checks

13OK

Slowest check: 9.1 min · r-devel-linux-x86_64-fedora-clang

Code health

Yes

Tests · ratio 1.31

94.7%

Coverage · measured lines

100%

Documentation · exports

Dependencies · direct

Check history

OK2026-06-09
13 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
ERROR2026-06-08
12 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 1 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
OK2026-03-10
14 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE

Documentation

READMEYes · 608 wordsVignettesYes · dynamicpkgdown siteNoNEWSYes · 100% structuredCode of conductNoContributing guideNo

Examples that run: 100%
Documented parameters: 79%
Return-value docs: 100%
References docs: 42%

Downloads

2.5K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #18,938 · ~7/day · ~207/mo

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Repository

GitHub ↗ swisstph/healthiar

14Stars

1Forks

16Open issues

0Open PRs

4Releases

4,485Commits

7Contributors

License GPL-3.0 · 4,485 commits · Last activity 2026-07-28 · 0% stars, 30d

Stars over time

2025-06-13 · 22026-07-07 · 14

Repository practices

Upstream repositoryBeta

4 development-tooling and community-health practices detected across 4 families in the upstream repository

Checks run against github.com/swisstph/healthiar on 2026-07-30.

Continuous integration (1)

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Dependencies

Declared dependencies

12 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Depends (1)

R >= 4.2.0

Imports (5)

dplyr tidyr purrr tibble Rdpack

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (7)

sf terra exactextractr testthat devtools knitr rmarkdown

Enhances (0)

none

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Reverse dependencies

0direct

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Nothing depends on this yet.

Code & Tests

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People & History

People (16)

Maintainer (1)

Alberto Castro

Maintainer, Author

Authors (2)

Alberto Castro

Maintainer, Author

Axel Luyten

Author

Contributors (14)

Gianni Ardielli

Contributor · added in 0.2.2

Carl Baravelli

Contributor · added in 0.2.2

Ana Barbosa

Contributor

Susanne Breitner

Contributor

Vanessa Gorasso

Contributor

Anette Kocbach Bolling

Contributor

Maria Lepnurm

Contributor

Andreia Novais

Contributor

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Arno Pauwels

Contributor

Minh Nhat Pham

Contributor · added in 0.2.3

Iracy Pimenta

Contributor

Maria Jose Rueda Lopez

Contributor

Joao Vasco Santos

Contributor

Liliana Vazquez Fernandez

Contributor

Listed in earlier versions (1)

Carl Michael Baravelli

no longer listed · 0.2.1 to 0.2.1.1

Package Timeline

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R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
0.2.4Latest
2026-03-12 · current release · diff ↗
0.2.3
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0.2.2
2026-01-09 · diff ↗
0.2.1.1
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0.2.1
2025-11-11
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R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11

Package metadata

First published: 2025-11-11
Total releases: 5 / 1 yrs
License: GPL (>= 3) OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 4.2.0
Bundled data: 357 KB / 8 files
Download size: 1.6 MB
Installed size: not tracked yet
With dependencies: not tracked yet

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