R Observatory: Metrics for ricu version 0.6.3

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

ricu

0.6.3Package record

Intensive Care Unit Data with R

0packages depend

4.8Kdownloads / year

44.6%test coverage

11/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Nicolas BennettCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Website ↗Issues ↗

Focused on (but not exclusive to) data sets hosted on PhysioNet (https://physionet.org), 'ricu' provides utilities for download, setup and access of intensive care unit (ICU) data sets. In addition to functions for running arbitrary queries against available data sets, a system for defining clinical concepts and encoding their representations in tabular ICU data is presented.

Changes in 0.6.3

Docs only update

From NEWS.md in the release

Install

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

install.packages("ricu", 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("eth-mds/ricu")

Development version from eth-mds/ricu. 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-ricu

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-ricu

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-ricu

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

2NOTE11OK

Check messages

NOTECRAN incoming feasibilityr-devel-linux-x86_64-debian-clang, r-devel-linux-x86_64-debian-gcc

Maintainer: ‘Nicolas Bennett <r@nbenn.ch>’

Found the following (possibly) invalid URLs:
  URL: %22https://eth-mds.github.io/physionet-demo%22
    From: inst/doc/ricu.pdf
    Message: Invalid URI scheme

CRAN check page ↗

Slowest check: 3.9 min · r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

Status changes

NOTE11 OK, 2 NOTENow
NOTE9 OK, 5 NOTE2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 0.6.3

READMEYes · 785 wordsVignettesYes · 3 · evaluation depends on the environmentNEWSYes · 100% structured · mentions 0.6.3Citation fileNoWebsiteYes

Help pages: 38 (9 internal)includes a package overview page
Examples that run: 85%17 run in a plain check · 3 never run
Exported functions with examples: 54%
Documented parameters: 89%
Return-value docs: 86%
Help pages citing references: 13%

Vignettes (3)

How these are measured

Downloads

4.8K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #10,213 · ~13/day · ~397/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

40730 days

1K90 days

4.8K1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on75 r2u2 autocran1.1K conda_forge

How downloads are counted

Repository

eth-mds/ricu ↗Organization: eth-mds

65Stars

19Forks

21Open issues

10Open PRs

0Releases

1,066Commits

8Commit identities

License file reads as GPL-3.0 · 1,066 commits · Last activity 2025-09-03 · +3.2% stars, 30d

Responsiveness

How these are sampled

PRs merged (all time): 19%
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed issues: 170
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed PRs: 38

Stars over time

2025-10-01 · 432026-10-21 · 65

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

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

Checks run against github.com/eth-mds/ricu 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 (4)

README.Rmdpkgdown

GitHub Pages site last deployed 2023-04-09 · The repository has a site deploy workflow

Coverage (1)

Coverage reporting (Codecov)

CRAN release process (1)

cran-comments.md

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

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

34 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing ricu adds 37 packages (24 with compiled code, 19 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: data.table 5.7 MB, Rcpp 1.8 MB, openssl 1.1 MB.

Depends (1)

R >= 3.5.0

Imports (17)

data.table curl assertthat fst readr jsonlitemethodsstatsprt tibble backports rlang vctrs cli (>= 2.1.0)fansi opensslutils

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (21)

xml2 covr testthat withr mockthat pkgload mimic.demo eicu.demo progress knitr rmarkdown ggplot2 cowplotsurvivalforestmodel rticles kableExtra units pdftools magick pillar

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

0direct

0indirect

Nothing depends on this yet.

How these are counted

Code & Tests

People & History

People (3)

Nicolas Bennett

Author, Maintainer since 0.1.2 (2020)

Drago Plecko

Author

Ida-Fong Ukor

Author

Releases (11)

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R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
0.6.3Latest
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2025-09-03 · current release · diff ↗
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R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11
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R 4.4.0 released · 2024-04-24
0.5.6
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2023-09-04 · diff ↗
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R 4.3.0 released · 2023-04-21
0.5.5
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2023-04-09 · diff ↗
0.5.4
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2022-10-30 · diff ↗
0.5.3
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2022-07-12 · diff ↗
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2022-04-27 · diff ↗
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R 4.2.0 released · 2022-04-22
0.5.1
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2021-10-07 · diff ↗ ·
removed 2 exports
sed, vent_dur
0.5.0
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2021-08-18 · diff ↗ ·
removed 2 exports
.cbind.id_tbl, .rbind.id_tbl

added 10 exports
as_win_tbl, cbind_id_tbl, change_dur_unit, dur_col, dur_unit, dur_var, is_win_tbl, load_win, rbind_id_tbl, win_tbl
0.4.0
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2021-05-20 · diff ↗ ·
removed 2 exports
auto_load_src_names, vent

added 38 exports
add_concept, attached_srcs, auto_attach_srcs, avpu, bmi, col_renamer, combine_callbacks, concept_availability, default_vars, delta_cummin, delta_min, delta_start, detach_src, explain_dictionary, fmt_msg, is_data_avail, is_src_env, is_src_tbl, is_tbl_avail, merge_lst, mews_score, news_score, norepi_equiv, qsofa_score, safi, sep3, set_val, setup_src_data, sirs_score, src_extra_cfg and 8 more
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R 4.1.0 released · 2021-05-18
unarchivedReturned to CRAN
2021-01-30

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0.1.3
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2021-01-30 · diff ↗
archivedRemoved from CRAN
2021-01-29
policy violation Unconditionally creates ~/.local/share/ricu/
0.1.2
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2020-11-03
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R 4.0.0 released · 2020-04-24

Package metadata

First published: 2020-11-03
Total releases: 11 / 6 yrs
License: GPL-3 OSI
Additional repositories: eth-mds.github.io
Minimum R: ≥ 3.5.0
Download size: 1.4 MB

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("ricu")

Format

Bennett, N., Plecko, D., & Ukor, I. (2025). ricu: Intensive Care Unit Data with R (Version 0.6.3) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.ricu

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 ricu version 0.6.3 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-24. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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