InSilicoVA

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Probabilistic Verbal Autopsy Coding with 'InSilicoVA' Algorithm

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Overview

About

Maintained by Zehang Richard LiFirst published 2015-12-0524 releasesCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗

Computes individual causes of death and population cause-specific mortality fractions using the 'InSilicoVA' algorithm from McCormick et al. (2016) DOI:10.1080/01621459.2016.1152191. It uses data derived from verbal autopsy (VA) interviews, in a format similar to the input of the widely used 'InterVA' method. This package provides general model fitting and customization for 'InSilicoVA' algorithm and basic graphical visualization of the output.

Install

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

install.packages("InSilicoVA", 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("verbal-autopsy-software/InSilicoVA")

Development version from verbal-autopsy-software/InSilicoVA. 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-insilicova

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-InSilicoVA

RPMs from the iucar/cran COPR, rebuilt from CRAN.

For install.packages() integration in R, also: sudo dnf install R-CoprManager

Health

CRAN checks

13OK

Slowest check: 2.7 min · r-devel-linux-x86_64-fedora-clang

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Documentation

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Examples that run: 57%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 64%
References docs: 48%

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Repository

GitHub ↗ verbal-autopsy-software/insilicova

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Last activity 2025-08-08

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Dependencies

Declared dependencies

5 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Depends (5)

R >= 3.5.0rJava coda ggplot2 InterVA5

Imports (2)

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openVA

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People & History

People (3)

Maintainer (1)

Zehang Richard Li

Author, Maintainer · added in 1.2.7

Authors (3)

Zehang Richard Li

Author, Maintainer · added in 1.2.7

Sam Clark

Author

Tyler McCormick

Author

Listed in earlier versions (2)

Zehang Li

no longer listed · 1.0 to 1.2.6

no longer listed · 1.4.2

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Package metadata

First published: 2015-12-05
Total releases: 24 / 11 yrs
License: GPL-2 OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 3.5.0
Bundled data: 144 KB / 10 files
Download size: 3.8 MB
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