R Observatory: Metrics for preventr version 0.12.1

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

preventr

0.12.1Package record

An Implementation of the PREVENT and Pooled Cohort Equations

1packages depend

8.1Kdownloads / year

87.9%test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Martin MayerCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Website ↗

Implements the American Heart Association Predicting Risk of cardiovascular disease EVENTs (PREVENT) equations from Khan SS, Matsushita K, Sang Y, and colleagues (2023) doi:10.1161/CIRCULATIONAHA.123.067626, with optional comparison with their de facto predecessor, the Pooled Cohort Equations from the American Heart Association and American College of Cardiology (2013) doi:10.1161/01.cir.0000437741.48606.98 and the revision to the Pooled Cohort Equations from Yadlowsky and colleagues (2018) doi:10.7326/M17-3011.

Changes in 0.12.1

User-visible changes:
This is a patch to implement the correction issued by the authors of the PREVENT equations on 2026-10-14 for models that use the HbA1c coefficients (i.e., the 10- and 30-year HbA1c models and the 10- and 30-year full models).
This correction was formally published as an erratum (https://doi.org/10.1161/CIR.0000000000001491), and it was also accompanied by a notification on their website page for their calculator (https://professional.heart.org/en/guidelines-and-statements/prevent-calculator) with an accompanying PDF of FAQs (https://professional.heart.org/-/media/PHD-Files/Guidelines-and-Statements/PREVENT/PREVENT-Update-FAQ-101426.pdf).
I have also created archived versions of the website notification (https://web.archive.org/web/20261015220358/https://professional.heart.org/en/guidelines-and-statements/prevent-calculator) and PDF of FAQs (https://web.archive.org/web/20261016222755/https://professional.heart.org/-/media/PHD-Files/Guidelines-and-Statements/PREVENT/PREVENT-Update-FAQ-101426.pdf)
Minor updates to documentation stemming from new notes returned during checks of the package before submission. This was due to citations occassionally pointing to PubMed instead of using DOIs, with the new notes indicating these should be converted to DOIs. As a result of these changes, the estimate_risk() / est_risk() function documentation now has a dedicated "References" section that points to key references.
Internal changes:
Updates to test cases in accordance with the above

From NEWS.md in the release

Install

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

install.packages("preventr", 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("martingmayer/preventr")

Development version from martingmayer/preventr. 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-preventr

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-preventr

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-preventr

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: 10.1 min · r-release-macos-x86_64

Status changes

OK13 OK2026-08-05
NOTE12 OK, 1 NOTE2026-08-01
OK13 OK2026-07-03
NOTE13 NOTE2026-06-08
WARNING12 NOTE, 1 WARNING2026-06-07

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NOTE3 OK, 11 NOTE2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 0.12.1

READMEYes · 1,473 wordsVignettesYes · 2 · dynamicNEWSYes · 100% structured · mentions 0.12.1Citation fileNoWebsiteYes

The repository also keeps web-only articles.

Help pages: 3
Examples that run: 100%3 run in a plain check (1 of them under a condition)
Exported functions with examples: 100%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 100%
Help pages citing references: 33%

Vignettes (2)

How these are measured

Downloads

8.1K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #3,689 · ~22/day · ~677/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

1.1K30 days

2.7K90 days

8.1K1 year

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Also on77 r2u7 autocran

How downloads are counted

Repository

martingmayer/preventr ↗Account: martingmayer

46Stars

8Forks

0Open issues

0Open PRs

5Releases

14Commits

1Commit identities

14 commits · Last activity 2026-10-17 · +2.2% stars, 30d

Responsiveness

How these are sampled

PRs merged (all time): not measured
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed issues: 34
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed PRs: not measured

Stars over time

2025-10-18 · 322026-10-04 · 46

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

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

Checks run against github.com/martingmayer/preventr on 2026-10-21.

Docs source (2)

README.Rmdpkgdown

CRAN release process (1)

cran-comments.md

Lint, format, editor (1)

RStudio project

Git structural (1)

.gitattributes

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

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

10 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing preventr adds 25 packages (12 with compiled code, 16 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: ggplot2 6.0 MB, isoband 1.5 MB, farver 1.2 MB.

Depends (1)

R >= 4.1.0

Imports (2)

dplyr ggplot2

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (9)

data.table devtools knitr patchwork purrr rmarkdown testthatutilsvdiffr

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

1direct

0indirect

Imports 1

Depends, Imports or LinkingTo, most downloaded first

CVrisk

How these are counted

Code & Tests

People & History

People (1)

Martin Mayer

Releases (5)

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0.12.0
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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

Package metadata

First published: 2024-02-26
Total releases: 5 / 2 yrs
License: MIT + file LICENSE OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 4.1.0
Download size: 801 KB

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("preventr")

Format

Mayer, M. (2026). preventr: An Implementation of the PREVENT and Pooled Cohort Equations (Version 0.12.1) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.preventr

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 preventr version 0.12.1 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-25. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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