sae4health

1.2.3

Small Area Estimation for Key Health and Demographic Indicators from Household Surveys

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Overview

About

Maintained by Yunhan WuFirst published 2025-03-284 releasesCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗

Enables small area estimation (SAE) of health and demographic indicators in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs). It powers an R 'shiny' application for generating subnational estimates and prevalence maps of 150+ binary indicators from Demographic and Health Surveys (DHS). It builds on the SAE analysis workflow from the 'surveyPrev' package. For documentation, visit https://sae4health.stat.uw.edu/. Methodological details can be found at Wu et al. (2025) doi:10.48550/arXiv.2505.01467.

Install

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

install.packages("sae4health", 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("wu-thomas/sae4health")

Development version from wu-thomas/sae4health. 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-sae4health

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-sae4health

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-sae4health

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

Health

CRAN checks

13OK

Slowest check: 3.5 min · r-devel-linux-x86_64-fedora-clang

Code health

Yes

Tests · ratio 0.01

6.4%

Coverage · measured lines

100%

Documentation · exports

Dependencies · direct

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Documentation

READMEYes · 1,030 wordsVignettesNopkgdown siteNoNEWSNoCode of conductNoContributing guideNo

Examples that run: 100%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 67%
References docs: 7%

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Repository

GitHub ↗ wu-thomas/sae4health

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115 commits · Last activity 2026-07-10 · 0% stars, 30d

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Dependencies

Declared dependencies

38 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

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R >= 4.3

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Yunhan Wu

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Package Timeline

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R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
1.2.3Latest
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R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11
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R 4.4.0 released · 2024-04-24

Package metadata

First published: 2025-03-28
Total releases: 4 / 1 yrs
License: AGPL-3 OSI
Additional repositories: inla.r-inla-download.org
Minimum R: ≥ 4.3
Bundled data: 419 KB / 9 files
Download size: 606 KB
Installed size: not tracked yet
With dependencies: not tracked yet

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