R Observatory: Metrics for kidsides version 0.5.0

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

kidsides

0.5.0Package record

Download, Cache, and Connect to KidSIDES

0packages depend

3Kdownloads / year

53.7%test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Nicholas GiangrecoCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Website ↗

Caches and then connects to a 'sqlite' database containing half a million pediatric drug safety signals. The database is part of a family of resources catalogued at https://nsides.io. The database contains 17 tables where the description table provides a map between the fields the field's details. The database was created by Nicholas Giangreco during his PhD thesis which you can read in Giangreco (2022) doi:10.7916/d8-5d9b-6738. The observations are from the Food and Drug Administration's Adverse Event Reporting System. Generalized additive models estimated drug effects across child development stages for the occurrence of an adverse event when exposed to a drug compared to other drugs. Read more at the methods detailed in Giangreco (2022) doi:10.1016/j.medj.2022.06.001.

Changes in 0.5.0

Added more tests to verify get_db_path outputs and download_sqlite_db logic
Places README summary text in an Overview vignette
Puts other vignettes in vignettes/articles/ folder
Revises function logic to now download or create kidsides cache directory until consent is given

From NEWS.md in the release

Install

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

install.packages("kidsides", 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("ngiangre/kidsides")

Development version from ngiangre/kidsides. 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-kidsides

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-kidsides

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-kidsides

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: 1.3 min · r-devel-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 0.5.0

READMEYes · 1,058 wordsVignettesYes · 1 · staticNEWSYes · 100% structured · mentions 0.5.0Citation fileNoWebsiteYes · pkgdown

The repository also keeps web-only articles.

Help pages: 4
Examples that run: 100%4 run in a plain check
Exported functions with examples: 100%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 100%
Help pages citing references: 0%

Vignettes (1)

Overview HTML

How these are measured

Downloads

3K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #16,984 · ~8/day · ~251/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

29930 days

75190 days

3K1 year

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Also on69 r2u2 autocran

How downloads are counted

Repository

ngiangre/kidsides ↗Account: ngiangre

6Stars

0Forks

0Open issues

0Open PRs

0Releases

75Commits

1Commit identities

databasedruggeneralized-additive-modelspediatricspkgdownrsafetyinformatics

75 commits · Last activity 2023-05-21

Responsiveness

How these are sampled

PRs merged (all time): not measured
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed issues: 6
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed PRs: not measured

Stars over time

2025-09-15 · 62026-07-07 · 6

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

11 development-tooling and community-health practices detected across 5 families in the upstream repository

Checks run against github.com/ngiangre/kidsides 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 2023-05-21 · The repository has a site deploy workflow

Coverage (1)

Coverage reporting (Codecov)

CRAN release process (3)

cran-comments.mdrevdep/CRAN-SUBMISSION

Show all practicesHide 1 practice

Lint, format, editor (1)

RStudio project

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

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

23 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing kidsides adds 18 packages (9 with compiled code, 9.1 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: RSQLite 4.2 MB, vctrs 1.0 MB, rlang 766 KB.

Depends (1)

R >= 4.0

Imports (4)

DBI RSQLite R.utilstools

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (20)

ggplot2 dbplyr tidyr stringr ggthemes rlang ggrepel scales pacman dplyr rmarkdown knitr covr testthat (>= 3.0.0)DT gt lobstr prettyunits purrr tidyverse

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

0direct

0indirect

Nothing depends on this yet.

How these are counted

Code & Tests

People & History

People (1)

Nicholas Giangreco

Releases (3)

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Package metadata

First published: 2023-01-13
Total releases: 3 / 3 yrs
License: CC BY 4.0
Minimum R: ≥ 4.0
Download size: 12 KB

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("kidsides")

Format

Giangreco, N. (2023). kidsides: Download, Cache, and Connect to KidSIDES (Version 0.5.0) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.kidsides

This package has no citation file, so citation() returns this entry built from DESCRIPTION.

Cite the R Observatory

For a number measured here: a download total, a coverage figure, an archival date.

Format

APA

Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for kidsides version 0.5.0 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-24. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

From data release v2026-10-24, which the citation names so these numbers can be found later. More on citing and the projects behind them.

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