epidict

0.3.0

Epidemiology Data Dictionaries and Random Data Generators

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2.5Kdownloads / year

97.4%test coverage

13/13checks pass

Overview

About

Maintained by Alexander SpinaFirst published 2025-11-133 releasesCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗

The 'R4EPIs' project https://r4epi.github.io/sitrep/ seeks to provide a set of standardized tools for analysis of outbreak and survey data in humanitarian aid settings. This package currently provides standardized data dictionaries from Medecins Sans Frontieres Operational Centre Amsterdam for outbreak scenarios (Acute Jaundice Syndrome, Cholera, Diphtheria, Measles, Meningitis) and surveys (Retrospective mortality and access to care, Malnutrition, Vaccination coverage and Event Based Surveillance) - as described in the following https://scienceportal.msf.org/assets/standardised-mortality-surveys?utm_source=chatgpt.com. In addition, a data generator from these dictionaries is provided. It is also possible to read in any Open Data Kit format data dictionary.

Install

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

install.packages("epidict", 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("R4EPI/epidict")

Development version from R4EPI/epidict. 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-epidict

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-epidict

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

Health

CRAN checks

13OK

Slowest check: 1.9 min · r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

Code health

Yes

Tests · ratio 0.26

97.4%

Coverage · measured lines

100%

Documentation · exports

Dependencies · direct

Check history

OK2026-03-10
14 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE

Documentation

READMEYes · 345 wordsVignettesYes · dynamicpkgdown siteNoNEWSYes · 100% structuredCode of conductNoContributing guideNo

Examples that run: 100%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 100%
References docs: 0%

Downloads

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Repository

GitHub ↗ r4epi/epidict

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4Releases

219Commits

3Contributors

License GPL-3.0 · 219 commits · Last activity 2026-05-15

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Checks run against github.com/r4epi/epidict on 2026-07-19.

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cran-comments.mdCRAN-SUBMISSION

Docs source (1)

README.Rmd

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Dependencies

Declared dependencies

14 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Depends (0)

none

Imports (8)

clipr dplyr readxl rlangstatstibble tidyrutils

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (8)

covr DT knitr matchmaker rmarkdown sitrep testthat (>= 2.1.0)withr

Enhances (0)

none

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Reverse dependencies

1direct

0indirect

sitrep

Code & Tests

People & History

People (7)

Maintainer (1)

Alexander Spina

Author, Maintainer

Authors (4)

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Author

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Contributors (1)

Annick Lenglet

Contributor

Applied Epi Incorporated

Funders (1)

Medecins Sans Frontieres Operational Centre Amsterdam

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Package Timeline

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Package metadata

First published: 2025-11-13
Total releases: 3 / 1 yrs
License: GPL-3 OSI
Download size: 476 KB
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