phsmethods

1.1.0

Standard Methods for Use in Public Health Scotland

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Overview

About

Maintained by Tina FuFirst published 2023-11-034 releasesCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗

A collection of methods for commonly undertaken analytical tasks, primarily developed for Public Health Scotland (PHS) analysts, but the package is also generally useful to others working in the healthcare space, particularly since it has functions for working with Community Health Index (CHI) numbers. The package can help to make data manipulation and analysis more efficient and reproducible.

Install

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

install.packages("phsmethods", 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("Public-Health-Scotland/phsmethods")

Development version from Public-Health-Scotland/phsmethods. 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-phsmethods

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-phsmethods

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

Health

CRAN checks

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14 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE

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Downloads

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Repository

GitHub ↗ public-health-scotland/phsmethods

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802 commits · Last activity 2026-07-20 · +1.7% stars, 30d

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cran-comments.mdrevdep/

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README.Rmd

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Dependencies

Declared dependencies

19 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Depends (1)

R >= 3.6

Imports (12)

cli dplyr lifecycle lubridate magrittr readr rlang scales stringr tibbleutilswithr

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Code & Tests

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People & History

People (13)

Maintainer (1)

Tina Fu

Author, Maintainer

Authors (9)

Tina Fu

Author, Maintainer

David Caldwell

Author

Nicolaos Christofidis

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Author

Author

Author

Author · added in 1.1.0

Jaime Villacampa

Author

Contributors (2)

Alice Byers

Contributor

Alan Yeung

Contributor

Public Health Scotland

Reviewers (1)

Lucinda Lawrie

Reviewer

Listed in earlier versions (2)

James McMahon

no longer listed · 1.0.0 to 1.0.2

Public Health Scotland phs.datascience@phs.scot

no longer listed · 1.0.0 to 1.1.0

Package Timeline

4 releases. R releases are shown for context.

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R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
1.1.0Latest
2026-03-30 · current release · diff ↗
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R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11
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R 4.4.0 released · 2024-04-24
1.0.2
2024-01-09 · diff ↗
1.0.1
2023-11-28 · diff ↗
1.0.0
2023-11-03
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R 4.3.0 released · 2023-04-21

Package metadata

First published: 2023-11-03
Total releases: 4 / 3 yrs
License: GPL (>= 2) OSI
Download size: 149 KB
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