findSVI

0.2.0

Calculate Social Vulnerability Index for Communities

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2.7Kdownloads / year

19.6%test coverage

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Overview

About

Maintained by Heli XuFirst published 2023-08-252 releasesCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗

Developed by CDC/ATSDR (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention/ Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry), Social Vulnerability Index (SVI) serves as a tool to assess the resilience of communities by taking into account socioeconomic and demographic factors. Provided with year(s), region(s) and a geographic level of interest, 'findSVI' retrieves required variables from US census data and calculates SVI for communities in the specified area based on CDC/ATSDR SVI documentation. Reference for the calculation methods: Flanagan BE, Gregory EW, Hallisey EJ, Heitgerd JL, Lewis B (2011) doi:10.2202/1547-7355.1792.

Install

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

install.packages("findSVI", 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("heli-xu/findSVI")

Development version from heli-xu/findSVI. 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-findsvi

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-findSVI

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-findSVI

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

Health

CRAN checks

13OK

Slowest check: 3.8 min · r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

Code health

Yes

Tests · ratio 0.13

19.6%

Coverage · measured lines

83%

Documentation · exports

Dependencies · direct

Check history

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 · 1,618 wordsVignettesYes · dynamicpkgdown siteNoNEWSYes · 100% structuredCode of conductNoContributing guideNo

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

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Repository

GitHub ↗ heli-xu/findsvi

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Dependencies

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19 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Depends (1)

R >= 3.5.0

Imports (10)

cli dplyr magrittr purrr stringr tidycensus tidyr tidyselect rlangutils

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Heli Xu

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Authors (3)

Heli Xu

Author, Maintainer, Copyright holder

Usama Bilal

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Ran Li

Author · added in 0.2.0

Heli Xu

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Package metadata

First published: 2023-08-25
Total releases: 2 / 3 yrs
License: MIT + file LICENSE OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 3.5.0
Bundled data: 1.7 MB / 50 files
Download size: 2.4 MB
Installed size: not tracked yet
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