R Observatory: Metrics for polypharmacy version 1.0.0

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

polypharmacy

1.0.0Package record

Calculate Several Polypharmacy Indicators

0packages depend

2.7Kdownloads / year

69.8%test coverage

0/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Guillaume BoucherCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Issues ↗

Analyse prescription drug deliveries to calculate several indicators of polypharmacy corresponding to the various definitions found in the literature. Bjerrum, L., Rosholm, J. U., Hallas, J., & Kragstrup, J. (1997) doi:10.1007/s002280050329. Chan, D.-C., Hao, Y.-T., & Wu, S.-C. (2009a) doi:10.1002/pds.1712. Fincke, B. G., Snyder, K., Cantillon, C., Gaehde, S., Standring, P., Fiore, L., ... Gagnon, D.R. (2005) doi:10.1002/pds.966. Hovstadius, B., Astrand, B., & Petersson, G. (2009) doi:10.1186/1472-6904-9-11. Hovstadius, B., Astrand, B., & Petersson, G. (2010) doi:10.1002/pds.1921. Kennerfalk, A., Ruigómez, A., Wallander, M.-A., Wilhelmsen, L., & Johansson, S. (2002) doi:10.1345/aph.1A226. Masnoon, N., Shakib, S., Kalisch-Ellett, L., & Caughey, G. E. (2017) doi:10.1186/s12877-017-0621-2. Narayan, S. W., & Nishtala, P. S. (2015) doi:10.1007/s40801-015-0020-y. Nishtala, P. S., & Salahudeen, M. S. (2015) doi:10.1159/000368191. Park, H. Y., Ryu, H. N., Shim, M. K., Sohn, H. S., & Kwon, J. W. (2016) doi:10.5414/cp202484. Veehof, L., Stewart, R., Haaijer-Ruskamp, F., & Jong, B. M. (2000) doi:10.1093/fampra/17.3.261.

Changes in 1.0.0

First version on CRAN

From NEWS.md in the release

Install

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

install.packages("polypharmacy", 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("guiboucher/polypharmacy")

Development version from guiboucher/polypharmacy. 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-polypharmacy

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-polypharmacy

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-polypharmacy

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

13NOTE

Check messages

NOTERd filesr-devel-linux-x86_64-debian-clang, r-devel-linux-x86_64-debian-gcc, r-devel-linux-x86_64-fedora-clang, r-devel-linux-x86_64-fedora-gcc, r-devel-windows-x86_64, r-oldrel-macos-arm64, r-oldrel-macos-x86_64, r-oldrel-windows-x86_64, r-patched-linux-x86_64, r-release-linux-x86_64, r-release-macos-arm64, r-release-macos-x86_64, r-release-windows-x86_64

checkRd: (-1) stat_quantile_prob.Rd:14: Lost braces; missing escapes or markup?
    14 | Number {25, 50, 75}
       |        ^

CRAN check page ↗

Slowest check: 1.3 min · r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

Status changes

NOTE13 NOTENow
NOTE14 NOTE2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 1.0.0

READMEYes · 583 wordsVignettesNoNEWSYes · 67% structured · mentions 1.0.0Citation fileNoWebsitenot declared in DESCRIPTION

Help pages: 24 (12 internal)includes a package overview page
Examples that run: 83%10 run in a plain check · 2 only when donttest examples are enabled (R CMD check --as-cran)
Exported functions with examples: 60%
Documented parameters: 87%
Return-value docs: 100%
Help pages citing references: 0%

How these are measured

Downloads

2.7K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #21,786 · ~7/day · ~227/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

21530 days

61590 days

2.7K1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on71 r2u4 autocran

How downloads are counted

Repository

guiboucher/polypharmacy ↗Account: guiboucher

4Stars

1Forks

0Open issues

0Open PRs

0Releases

81Commits

1Commit identities

81 commits · Last activity 2021-09-16 · 0% stars, 30d

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

Stars over time

2024-01-10 · 42026-07-07 · 4

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

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

Checks run against github.com/guiboucher/polypharmacy on 2026-10-22.

Docs source (1)

README.Rmd

Reproducibility and dev environment (1)

data-raw/

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

9 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing polypharmacy adds 17 packages (9 with compiled code, 21 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: stringi 11 MB, data.table 5.7 MB, vctrs 1.0 MB.

Depends (1)

R >= 3.5.0

Imports (7)

data.table doParallel foreach itertools lubridateparallelstringr

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (3)

knitr rmarkdown testthat

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

0direct

0indirect

Nothing depends on this yet.

How these are counted

Code & Tests

Datasets

People & History

People (5)

Guillaume Boucher

Author, Maintainer since 1.0.0 (2021)

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Releases (1)

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R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
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R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11
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R 4.4.0 released · 2024-04-24
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R 4.3.0 released · 2023-04-21
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R 4.2.0 released · 2022-04-22
1.0.0Latest
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2021-07-12 · current release
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R 4.1.0 released · 2021-05-18

Package metadata

First published: 2021-07-12
Total releases: 1 / 5 yrs
License: MIT + file LICENSE OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 3.5.0
Bundled data: 39 KB / 2 files
Download size: 335 KB

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("polypharmacy")

Format

Boucher, G., Candas, B., Missaoui, H., Simard, M., & Sirois, C. (2021). polypharmacy: Calculate Several Polypharmacy Indicators (Version 1.0.0) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.polypharmacy

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Format

APA

Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for polypharmacy version 1.0.0 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-25. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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