R Observatory: Metrics for pediatric.zcalc version 0.1.1

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

pediatric.zcalc

0.1.1Package record

Z-Score Calculator for Biomarkers: Childhood to Young Adulthood

0packages depend

241downloads / year

77.8%test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Andreas MändleCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Issues ↗

Provides tools to compute individual percentile ranks and z-scores for clinical biomarkers in children, adolescents and young adults, based on age-, sex-, and height-specific reference data from the IDEFICS (Identification and prevention of Dietary and lifestyle-induced health EFfects In Children and infantS) study and the Biomarkers4Pediatrics collaboration. Supports the computation of a composite Metabolic Syndrome (MetS) score and associated monitoring/action levels for health monitoring. For more details see Ahrens et al. (2014) doi:10.1038/ijo.2014.130.

Install

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

install.packages("pediatric.zcalc", 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("bips-hb/pediatric.zcalc")

Development version from bips-hb/pediatric.zcalc. Installs pak first if it is not already available.

# 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-pediatric.zcalc

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-pediatric.zcalc

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: 58 s · r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

Status changes

OK13 OKNow
OK5 OK2026-10-01

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 0.1.1

READMEYes · 258 wordsVignettesNoNEWSNoCitation fileNoWebsitenot declared in DESCRIPTION

Help pages: 9 (5 internal)
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%

How these are measured

Downloads

241

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #25,454 · ~1/day · ~20/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

24130 days

24190 days

2411 year

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Also on1 autocran

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Repository

bips-hb/pediatric.zcalc ↗Organization: bips-hb

1Stars

2Forks

0Open issues

0Open PRs

0Releases

23Commits

2Commit identities

23 commits · Last activity 2026-09-21

Responsiveness

How these are sampled

PRs merged (all time): 100%
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed issues: not measured
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed PRs: 0

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

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

Checks run against github.com/bips-hb/pediatric.zcalc 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

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

3 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing pediatric.zcalc adds 2 packages (1 with compiled code, 1.9 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: gamlss.dist 1.5 MB, pracma 389 KB.

Depends (1)

R >= 3.5.0

Imports (2)

gamlss.dist pracma

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (1)

testthat

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 (3)

Andreas Mändle

Author, Maintainer since 0.1.1 (2026)

Zülal Bekerecioglu

Author

Timm Intemann

Author

Releases (1)

0.1.1Latest
record
2026-09-30 · current release
R
R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24

Package metadata

First published: 2026-09-30
Total releases: 1 / 1 yrs
License: GPL-3 OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 3.5.0
Bundled data: 261 KB / 1 file
Download size: 270 KB

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("pediatric.zcalc")

Format

Mändle, A., Bekerecioglu, Z., & Intemann, T. (2026). pediatric.zcalc: Z-Score Calculator for Biomarkers: Childhood to Young Adulthood (Version 0.1.1) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.pediatric.zcalc

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 pediatric.zcalc version 0.1.1 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-25. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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