R Observatory: Metrics for nhscancerwaits version 1.0.2

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

nhscancerwaits needs insight (through performance), which CRAN will archive unless its check problems are fixed by Nov 14.

nhscancerwaits

1.0.2Package record

NHS Cancer Waiting-Time Analysis, Benchmarking and Multilevel Modelling

0packages depend

1.2Kdownloads / year

19.6%test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Muhammad Zahir KhanCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Issues ↗

Provides tools for importing, harmonising, cleaning, analysing, benchmarking and visualising National Health Service (NHS) England Cancer Waiting Times data. The package supports national performance monitoring, provider-level benchmarking and cancer pathway comparisons through key performance indicator summaries, provider filtering, clustering analyses, mixed-effects regression models, variance decomposition, intraclass correlation coefficient estimation, adjusted provider performance estimation and sensitivity analyses. Functions are included for exploratory analysis, publication-ready visualisations and spreadsheet exports, supporting reproducible health services research, cancer services evaluation, quality improvement and assessment of waiting-time performance across healthcare organisations. Mixed-effects modelling functionality is based on Bates et al. (2015) doi:10.18637/jss.v067.i01. Multilevel modelling concepts and variance decomposition follow Gelman and Hill (2007, ISBN:9780521686891). Cancer Waiting Times definitions and reporting standards follow NHS England https://www.england.nhs.uk/statistics/statistical-work-areas/cancer-waiting-times/.

Install

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

install.packages("nhscancerwaits", 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("zerish12/nhscancerwaits")

Development version from zerish12/nhscancerwaits. 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-nhscancerwaits

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-nhscancerwaits

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-nhscancerwaits

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: 1.4 min · r-devel-windows-x86_64

Status changes

OK13 OK2026-08-05
NOTE12 OK, 1 NOTE2026-08-01
OK7 OK2026-06-20

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 1.0.2

READMEYes · 45 wordsVignettesYes · 1 · dynamicNEWSYes · 67% structured · does not mention 1.0.2Citation fileNoWebsitenot declared in DESCRIPTION

Description cites a JSS article

Help pages: 24
Examples that run: 0%1 never run
Exported functions with examples: 4%
Documented parameters: 98%
Return-value docs: 100%
Help pages citing references: 0%

Vignettes (1)

nhscancerwaits Workflow HTML

How these are measured

Downloads

1.2K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #15,296 · ~3/day · ~104/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

24730 days

80390 days

1.2K1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on23 r2u4 autocran

How downloads are counted

Repository

zerish12/nhscancerwaits ↗Account: zerish12

0Stars

0Forks

0Open issues

0Open PRs

0Releases

Last activity 2026-05-31 · The default branch showed an older version (1.0.1) than CRAN on 2026-10-22

Responsiveness

not measured

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

3 development-tooling and community-health practices detected across 3 families in the upstream repository

Checks run against github.com/zerish12/nhscancerwaits on 2026-10-22.

Docs source (1)

README.Rmd

CRAN release process (1)

cran-comments.md

Lint, format, editor (1)

RStudio project

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

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

18 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing nhscancerwaits adds 68 packages (33 with compiled code, 57 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: stringi 11 MB, ggplot2 6.0 MB, broom.mixed 4.9 MB.

Depends (1)

R >= 4.2.0

Imports (15)

dplyr tidyr readr readxl stringr lubridate rlang ggplot2 scales lme4 broom.mixed performanceclusterstatswritexl

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (5)

testthat knitr rmarkdown quarto covr

Enhances (0)

none

Dependencies facing archival

CRAN will archive these unless their check problems are fixed by the date shown. This package needs each one to install.

insight through performancefix by Nov 14

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

0direct

0indirect

Nothing depends on this yet.

How these are counted

Code & Tests

People & History

People (1)

Muhammad Zahir Khan

Author, Maintainer since 1.0.2 (2026)

Releases (1)

1.0.2Latest
record
2026-06-19 · current release
R
R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24

Package metadata

First published: 2026-06-19
Total releases: 1 / 1 yrs
License: MIT + file LICENSE OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 4.2.0
Download size: 196 KB

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("nhscancerwaits")

Format

Zahir Khan, M. (2026). nhscancerwaits: NHS Cancer Waiting-Time Analysis, Benchmarking and Multilevel Modelling (Version 1.0.2) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.nhscancerwaits

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 nhscancerwaits version 1.0.2 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-25. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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