rxref

0.4.0

Tidy Utilities for RxNorm and NDC Resolution

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744downloads / year

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Overview

About

Maintained by Steven SmithFirst published 2026-05-271 releasesCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗

Provides a tidy, vectorized interface to the 'RxNorm' / 'RxNav' API for resolving drug names, RxCUIs, National Drug Codes (NDCs), and related drug concept metadata. The package supports workflows for mapping between drug names, RxCUIs, NDCs, ingredients, products, drug classes, and related concepts using data from the National Library of Medicine's 'RxNav' services https://lhncbc.nlm.nih.gov/RxNav/APIs/ and 'RxNorm' https://www.nlm.nih.gov/research/umls/rxnorm/.

Install

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

install.packages("rxref", 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("ssmithm/rxref")

Development version from ssmithm/rxref. Installs pak first if it is not already available.

# 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-rxref

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

Health

CRAN checks

13OK

Slowest check: 2.5 min · r-oldrel-macos-x86_64

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
OK2026-05-28
7 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE

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GitHub ↗ ssmithm/rxref

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R >= 4.1

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cachem cli digest dplyr httr2 jsonlite lifecycle memoise purrr rlang stringr tibble tidyr vctrs

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Steven Smith

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2026-05-27 · current release
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Package metadata

First published: 2026-05-27
Total releases: 1 / 1 yrs
License: MIT + file LICENSE OSI
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