R Observatory: Metrics for medicare version 0.3.0

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

medicare

0.3.0Package record

Tools for Obtaining and Cleaning Medicare Public Use Files

0packages depend

6.2Kdownloads / year

4.1%test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Robert GambrelCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Issues ↗

Publicly available data from Medicare frequently requires extensive initial effort to extract desired variables and merge them; this package formalizes the techniques I've found work best. More information on the Medicare program, as well as guidance for the publicly available data this package targets, can be found on CMS's website covering publicly available data. See https://www.cms.gov/data-research.

Install

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

install.packages("medicare", 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("robertgambrel/medicare")

Development version from robertgambrel/medicare. 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-medicare

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-medicare

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-medicare

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-macos-x86_64

Status changes

OK13 OK2026-10-25
ERROR12 OK, 1 ERROR2026-10-24
OK13 OK2026-09-20
NOTE14 NOTE2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

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Documentation

In release 0.3.0

READMEYes · 256 wordsVignettesYes · 2 · dynamicNEWSYes · 100% structured · mentions 0.3.0Citation fileNoWebsitenot declared in DESCRIPTION

Help pages: 15 (1 internal)includes a package overview page
Examples that run: 86%6 run in a plain check · 1 never run
Exported functions with examples: 100%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 100%
Help pages citing references: 0%

Vignettes (2)

How these are measured

Downloads

6.2K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #10,044 · ~17/day · ~519/mo

Releases R versions

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29130 days

1K90 days

6.2K1 year

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Repository

robertgambrel/medicare ↗Account: robertgambrel

8Stars

3Forks

0Open issues

0Open PRs

3Releases

79Commits

1Commit identities

79 commits · Last activity 2017-04-02 · 0% stars, 30d · The default branch showed an older version (0.2.1) than CRAN on 2026-10-22

Responsiveness

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Stars over time

2023-11-16 · 62026-07-07 · 8

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PracticesBeta

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

Checks run against github.com/robertgambrel/medicare on 2026-10-22.

Continuous integration (1)

Travis CI (config file)

Docs source (1)

README.Rmd

Reproducibility and dev environment (1)

data-raw/

CRAN release process (1)

cran-comments.md

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Lint, format, editor (1)

RStudio project

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

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

7 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing medicare adds no packages beyond those that come with R.

Depends (1)

R >= 2.10

Imports (0)

none

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (7)

knitr rmarkdown dplyr ggplot2 maps magrittr testthat

Enhances (0)

none

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Reverse dependencies

0direct

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Nothing depends on this yet.

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People & History

People (1)

Robert Gambrel

Author, Maintainer since 0.1.0 (2016)

Releases (4)

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R 4.2.0 released · 2022-04-22
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R 4.1.0 released · 2021-05-18
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R 3.6.0 released · 2019-04-26
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R 3.5.0 released · 2018-04-23
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0.3.0Latest
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2017-04-02 · current release · diff ↗
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R 3.3.0 released · 2016-05-03

Package metadata

First published: 2016-10-10
Total releases: 4 / 10 yrs
License: MIT + file LICENSE OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 2.10
Bundled data: 637 KB / 4 files
Download size: 889 KB

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("medicare")

Format

Gambrel, R. (2026). medicare: Tools for Obtaining and Cleaning Medicare Public Use Files (Version 0.3.0) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.medicare

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

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Format

APA

Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for medicare version 0.3.0 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-25. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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