vigicaen

2.0.0

'VigiBase' Pharmacovigilance Database Toolbox

0packages depend

3Kdownloads / year

100.0%test coverage

11/13checks pass

Overview

About

Maintained by Charles DolladilleFirst published 2025-02-215 releasesCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗

Perform the analysis of the World Health Organization (WHO) Pharmacovigilance database 'VigiBase' (Extract Case Level version), https://who-umc.org/ e.g., load data, perform data management, disproportionality analysis, and descriptive statistics. Intended for pharmacovigilance routine use or studies. This package is NOT supported nor reflect the opinion of the WHO, or the Uppsala Monitoring Centre. Disproportionality methods are described by Norén et al (2013) doi:10.1177/0962280211403604.

Install

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

install.packages("vigicaen", 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("pharmacologie-caen/vigicaen")

Development version from pharmacologie-caen/vigicaen. 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-vigicaen

Fast Ubuntu binaries via r2u (no compilation). The cranapt setup runs once and is skipped when it is already enabled.

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-vigicaen

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-vigicaen

RPMs auto-built from CRAN on openSUSE OBS (Tumbleweed).

Health

CRAN checks

2NOTE11OK

Failing flavors

NOTE r-devel-linux-x86_64-debian-clang
NOTE r-devel-linux-x86_64-debian-gcc

Slowest check: 7.4 min · r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

Code health

Yes

Tests · ratio 2.23

100.0%

Coverage · measured lines

100%

Documentation · exports

Dependencies · direct

Check history

NOTE2026-07-22
11 OK · 2 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
ERROR2026-07-11
9 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 4 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
OK2026-06-09
13 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
ERROR2026-06-08
12 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 1 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
OK2026-03-10
14 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE

Documentation

READMEYes · 586 wordsVignettesYes · dynamicpkgdown siteNoNEWSYes · 100% structuredCode of conductNoContributing guideNo

Examples that run: 100%
Documented parameters: 97%
Return-value docs: 97%
References docs: 11%

Downloads

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #14,072 · ~8/day · ~253/mo

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27230 days

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Repository

GitHub ↗ pharmacologie-caen/vigicaen

3Stars

0Forks

11Open issues

8Open PRs

13Releases

639Commits

5Contributors

datamanagementpharmacovigilancer

639 commits · Last activity 2026-07-27 · 0% stars, 30d

Stars over time

2024-06-14 · 12026-07-07 · 3

Repository practices

Upstream repositoryBeta

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

Checks run against github.com/pharmacologie-caen/vigicaen on 2026-07-31.

Continuous integration (1)

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cran-comments.mdrevdep/

Docs source (1)

README.Rmd

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Dependencies

Declared dependencies

18 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Depends (1)

R >= 4.1.0

Imports (12)

arrow cli dplyr data.table ggplot2 glue gridExtra lifecycle purrr rlang stringr tidyr

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none

Suggests (6)

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Code & Tests

People & History

People (4)

Maintainer (1)

Charles Dolladille

Author, Maintainer

Authors (2)

Charles Dolladille

Author, Maintainer

Basile Chrétien

Author

Unite de pharmaco-epidemiologie

Universite de Caen Normandie

Package Timeline

5 releases. Pick two to compare their code metrics. R releases are shown for context.

2.0.0Latest
2026-06-24 · current release · diff ↗
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R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
1.0.0
2026-02-06 · diff ↗
0.16.1
2025-07-25 · diff ↗
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R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11
0.15.6
2025-03-13 · diff ↗
0.15.5
2025-02-21
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R 4.4.0 released · 2024-04-24

Package metadata

First published: 2025-02-21
Total releases: 5 / 1 yrs
License: CeCILL-2.1
Minimum R: ≥ 4.1.0
Bundled data: 389 KB / 15 files
Download size: 1.3 MB
Installed size: not tracked yet
With dependencies: not tracked yet

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