R Observatory: Metrics for sae4health version 1.2.3

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

sae4health

1.2.3Package record

Small Area Estimation for Key Health and Demographic Indicators from Household Surveys

0packages depend

6Kdownloads / year

0.1%test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Yunhan WuCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Website ↗Issues ↗

Enables small area estimation (SAE) of health and demographic indicators in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs). It powers an R 'shiny' application for generating subnational estimates and prevalence maps of 150+ binary indicators from Demographic and Health Surveys (DHS). It builds on the SAE analysis workflow from the 'surveyPrev' package. For documentation, visit https://sae4health.stat.uw.edu/. Methodological details can be found at Wu et al. (2025) doi:10.48550/arXiv.2505.01467.

Install

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

install.packages("sae4health", 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("wu-thomas/sae4health")

Development version from wu-thomas/sae4health. 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-sae4health

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-sae4health

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-sae4health

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: 2.7 min · r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

Status changes

OK13 OK2026-08-04
NOTE12 OK, 1 NOTE2026-08-01
OK13 OK2026-06-09
ERROR12 OK, 1 ERROR2026-06-08
OK13 OK2026-05-11

Show 4 earlier changesHide 4 earlier changes

WARNING12 OK, 1 WARNING2026-05-10
OK13 OK2026-05-02
ERROR11 OK, 1 ERROR2026-04-25
NOTE12 OK, 2 NOTE2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 1.2.3

READMEYes · 1,030 wordsVignettesNoNEWSNoCitation fileYes · software entry onlyWebsiteYes

Help pages: 15includes a package overview page
Examples that run: 100%2 run in a plain check
Exported functions with examples: 67%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 67%
Help pages citing references: 7%

How these are measured

Downloads

6K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #8,756 · ~16/day · ~501/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

39930 days

1.1K90 days

6K1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on69 r2u7 autocran

How downloads are counted

Repository

wu-thomas/sae4health ↗Account: wu-thomas

2Stars

5Forks

0Open issues

0Open PRs

0Releases

134Commits

8Commit identities

134 commits · Last activity 2026-10-08 · 0% stars, 30d

Responsiveness

How these are sampled

PRs merged (all time): 94%
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

2025-10-15 · 12026-07-07 · 2

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/wu-thomas/sae4health on 2026-10-11.

Continuous integration (1)

GitHub Actions

Docs source (1)

README.Rmd

Reproducibility and dev environment (2)

renvDockerfile

CRAN release process (1)

cran-comments.md

How this is detected·Detection ruleset v3 (2026-09-26)

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

38 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing sae4health adds 165 packages (81 with compiled code, 171 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: stringi 11 MB, sf 9.3 MB, ggplot2 6.0 MB.

Depends (1)

R >= 4.3

Imports (39)

config dplyr DT ggplot2 golemgridgridExtra htmltools htmlwidgets leaflet R6 sf sp shiny shinyBS shinydashboard shinyFeedback shinyjs shinyWidgets SUMMER surveyPrev survey geodata bookdown markdown haven ggridges ggthemes RColorBrewer viridisLite scales patchwork leaflegend leafsyncmethodsgraphicsplotly readr sn

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (2)

INLA 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 (4)

Yunhan Wu

Maintainer since 1.2.0 (2025), Author

Qianyu Dong

Author

Zehang R Li

Author

Jon Wakefield

Author

Releases (4)

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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

Package metadata

First published: 2025-03-28
Total releases: 4 / 1 yrs
License: AGPL-3 OSI
Additional repositories: inla.r-inla-download.org
Minimum R: ≥ 4.3
Bundled data: 419 KB / 9 files
Download size: 606 KB

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' entry:

citation("sae4health")

The package provides a citation file, so citation() returns the authors' own entry.

Cite the R Observatory

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Format

APA

Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for sae4health version 1.2.3 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-19. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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