WHORiskCalculator

1.0.0

WHO Cardiovascular Disease Risk Calculator

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1.5Kdownloads / year

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Overview

About

Maintained by Andrea PedotFirst published 2026-04-071 releasesCRAN page ↗

Implements the 2019 World Health Organization (WHO) cardiovascular disease (CVD) risk prediction models, as described in Kaptoge et al. (2019) doi:10.1016/S2214-109X(19)30318-3. Provides two validated models for estimating 10-year risk of fatal and non-fatal cardiovascular events (myocardial infarction and stroke): a laboratory-based model using age, sex, systolic blood pressure, total cholesterol, smoking status, and diabetes history; and a non-laboratory-based model substituting body mass index (BMI) for cholesterol and diabetes, suitable for resource-limited settings. Risk estimates are recalibrated to 21 Global Burden of Disease regions using region-specific incidence rates and risk factor distributions derived from the Emerging Risk Factors Collaboration. Functions are fully vectorized for efficient batch calculations and support automatic country-to-region mapping via ISO 3166-1 alpha-3 country codes.

Install

R (CRAN)Ubuntu (r2u)openSUSE (OBS)

install.packages("WHORiskCalculator", repos = "https://cloud.r-project.org/")

Installs the current CRAN release. Prebuilt binaries on Windows and macOS.

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-whoriskcalculator

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

# 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-WHORiskCalculator

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

Health

CRAN checks

13OK

Slowest check: 49 s · r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

Code health

Yes

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Check history

OK2026-04-08
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Documentation

READMEYes · 561 wordsVignettesNopkgdown siteNoNEWSYes · 67% structuredCode of conductNoContributing guideNo

Examples that run: 100%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 100%
References docs: 17%

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People & History

People (2)

Maintainer (1)

Andrea Pedot

Maintainer, Contributor

Authors (1)

WHO CVD Risk Chart Working Group

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Contributors (1)

Andrea Pedot

Maintainer, Contributor

Package Timeline

1 release. R releases are shown for context.

R
R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
1.0.0Latest
2026-04-07 · current release
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R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11

Package metadata

First published: 2026-04-07
Total releases: 1 / 1 yrs
License: MIT + file LICENSE OSI
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