climatehealth

1.0.3

Statistical Tools for Modelling Climate-Health Impacts

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Overview

About

Maintained by Kenechi OmekeFirst published 2026-03-314 releasesCRAN page ↗

Tools for producing climate-health indicators and supporting official statistics from health and climate data. Implements analytical workflows for temperature-related mortality, wildfire smoke exposure, air pollution, suicides related to extreme heat, malaria, and diarrhoeal disease outcomes, with utilities for descriptive statistics, model validation, attributable fraction and attributable number estimation, relative risk estimation, minimum mortality temperature estimation, and plotting for reporting. These six indicators are endorsed by the United Nations Statistical Commission for inclusion in the Global Set of Environment and Climate Change Statistics. Implemented methods include distributed lag non-linear models (DLNM), quasi-Poisson time-series regression, case-crossover analysis, Bayesian spatio-temporal models using the Integrated Nested Laplace Approximation ('INLA'), and multivariate meta-analysis for sub-national estimates. The package is based on methods developed in the Standards for Official Statistics on Climate-Health Interactions (SOSCHI) project https://climate-health.officialstatistics.org. For methodologies, see Watkins et al. (2026) doi:10.5281/zenodo.14865904, Jose et al. (2026) doi:10.5281/zenodo.14052183, Pearce et al. (2026) doi:10.5281/zenodo.14050224, Byukusenge et al. (2026) doi:10.5281/zenodo.15585042, Dzakpa et al. (2026) doi:10.5281/zenodo.14881886, and Dzakpa et al. (2026) doi:10.5281/zenodo.14871506.

Install

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

install.packages("climatehealth", 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-climatehealth

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-climatehealth

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

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

Health

CRAN checks

1NOTE12OK

Failing flavors

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Slowest check: 9.6 min · r-devel-linux-x86_64-fedora-clang

Code health

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Tests · ratio 0.98

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100%

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Documentation

READMEYes · 1,282 wordsVignettesYes · dynamicpkgdown siteNoNEWSYes · 100% structuredCode of conductNoContributing guideNo

Examples that run: 7%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 100%
References docs: 2%

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R >= 4.4.0

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Maquines Odhiambo Sewe

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Treesa Shaji

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Ellie Watkins

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Package Timeline

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1.0.3Latest
2026-07-06 · current release · diff ↗
1.0.2
2026-06-09 · diff ↗
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R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
1.0.1
2026-04-09 · diff ↗
1.0.0
2026-03-31
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R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11

Package metadata

First published: 2026-03-31
Total releases: 4 / 1 yrs
License: MIT + file LICENSE OSI
Additional repositories: inla.r-inla-download.org
Minimum R: ≥ 4.4.0
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