R Observatory: Metrics for nhanesdata version 0.2.2

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

nhanesdata

0.2.2Package record

Harmonized Access to NHANES Survey Data

0packages depend

3.4Kdownloads / year

0.0%test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Kyle GrealisCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Website ↗Issues ↗

Instant access to harmonized National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES) data spanning 1999-2023. Retrieve pre-processed datasets from reliable cloud storage with automatic type reconciliation and integrated search tools for variables and datasets. Simplifies NHANES data workflows by handling cycle management and maintaining data consistency across survey waves. Data is sourced from https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/nhanes/.

Changes in 0.2.2

Bug Fixes

Fixed create_design() crash for any analysis including 1999 or 2001 NHANES cycles. The needs_2yr flag was referenced but never defined, causing object 'needs_2yr' not found at runtime.
Fixed create_design() requiring 2-year weight columns (wtint2yr, wtmec2yr) for datasets containing only 1999/2001 cycles, where those columns do not exist in NHANES demographic files.
Fixed fasting weight validation to check for wtsaf4yr when 1999/2001 cycles are present, matching the calculation logic that already used it.
Added wtsaf4yr to globalVariables() to resolve R CMD check NOTEs.
Corrected roxygen documentation that incorrectly stated 4-year fasting weights were not supported.

From NEWS.md in the release

Install

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

install.packages("nhanesdata", 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("kyleGrealis/nhanesdata")

Development version from kyleGrealis/nhanesdata. 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-nhanesdata

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-nhanesdata

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-nhanesdata

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: 3.3 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 OK2026-03-29

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ERROR11 OK, 3 ERROR2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 0.2.2

README· In the repository, left out of the releaseVignettesYes · 4 · staticNEWSYes · 100% structured · mentions 0.2.2Citation fileYes · software entry onlyWebsiteYes · pkgdown

Help pages: 7 (2 internal)includes a package overview page
Examples that run: 20%1 run in a plain check · 4 only when donttest examples are enabled (R CMD check --as-cran)
Exported functions with examples: 100%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 100%
Help pages citing references: 0%

Vignettes (4)

Available NHANES Datasets HTML
COVID-19 and the 2019-2020 NHANES Cycle HTML
Creating Survey Design Objects HTML
Getting Started with NHANES Data HTML

How these are measured

Downloads

3.4K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #8,125 · ~9/day · ~283/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

34330 days

1.1K90 days

3.4K1 year

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Also on60 r2u4 autocran

How downloads are counted

Repository

kylegrealis/nhanesdata ↗Account: kyleGrealis

14Stars

2Forks

3Open issues

0Open PRs

3Releases

97Commits

3Commit identities

data-managementnhanespublic-accesspublic-health

97 commits · Last activity 2026-10-22 · 0% stars, 30d

Responsiveness

How these are sampled

PRs merged (all time): 85%
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed issues: 4
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed PRs: 0

Stars over time

2026-03-02 · 12026-08-20 · 14

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

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

Checks run against github.com/kylegrealis/nhanesdata 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 (3)

pkgdown

GitHub Pages site last deployed 2026-08-21 · The repository has a site deploy workflow

pkgdown site last built 2026-08-21

CRAN release process (1)

cran-comments.md

Automation and maintenance (1)

pre-commit

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Lint, format, editor (1)

lintr

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

AI coding toolsBeta

This repository shows signs of AI coding tools.

Claude Codefirst seen 2025-11-17
Named in .Rbuildignore: .claude, CLAUDE.md
Named in .gitignore: .claude, CLAUDE.md
Commits: at least 4 crediting it in the message
Gemini CLIfirst seen 2026-05-01
Named in .gitignore: .gemini, GEMINI.md

Models named in its commits

Claude Sonnet 4.62 commits · Apr 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

25 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing nhanesdata adds 49 packages (28 with compiled code, 39 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: stringi 11 MB, arrow 4.2 MB, srvyr 3.2 MB.

Depends (1)

R >= 4.1.0

Imports (8)

arrow dplyr nhanesA rlang scales stringr srvyr tibble

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (18)

cli curl devtools fs ggplot2 httptest2 janitor jsonlite knitr paws.storage purrr reactable rmarkdown roxygen2 testthattoolswithr yaml

Enhances (0)

none

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Reverse dependencies

0direct

0indirect

Nothing depends on this yet.

How these are counted

Code & Tests

Datasets

People & History

People (6)

Kyle Grealis

Author, Maintainer since 0.2.1 (2026)

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Releases (2)

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R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11

Package metadata

First published: 2026-02-28
Total releases: 2 / 1 yrs
License: MIT + file LICENSE OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 4.1.0
Download size: 8.0 MB

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' entry:

citation("nhanesdata")

The package provides a citation file, so citation() returns the authors' own entry.

Cite the R Observatory

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Format

APA

Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for nhanesdata version 0.2.2 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-23. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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