The World Health Organization’s CoDEdit electronic tool is intended to help producers of cause-of-death statistics in strengthening their capacity to perform routine checks on their data. This package ports the original tool built using Microsoft Access into R so as to leverage the utility and function of the original tool into a usable application program interface that can be used for building more universal tools or for creating programmatic scientific workflows aimed at routine, automated, and large-scale monitoring of cause-of-death data.
The codeditr
package provides functions for implementing data quality
checks on cause-of-death records. It is built upon the same heuristics
and algorithms that the WHO CoDEdit v2.0 electronic tool uses to
evaluate quality of cause-of-death data produced and used by country
level statisticians in charge of mortality reporting.
Through this package, end users will have the ability to programmatically create scientific workflows for research on cause-of-death data and their quality or build more open tools or applications for routine monitoring of cause-of-death data.
coeditr
is not yet on CRAN but can be installed through the Oxford
IHTM R-universe with:
install.packages(
"codeditr",
repos = c("https://oxfordihtm.r-universe.dev", "https://cloud.r-project.org")
)
then load codeditr
# load package
library(codeditr)
If you find the codeditr
package useful please cite using the
suggested citation provided by a call to the citation()
function as
follows:
citation("codeditr")
#> To cite codeditr in publications use:
#>
#> Anita Makori, Ernest Guevarra (2024). _codeditr: Implementing
#> Cause-of-Death Data Checks Based on World Health Organization's
#> CoDEdit Tool_. R package version 0.0.9000,
#> <https://oxford-ihtm.io/codeditr/>.
#>
#> A BibTeX entry for LaTeX users is
#>
#> @Manual{,
#> title = {codeditr: Implementing Cause-of-Death Data Checks Based on World Health Organization's CoDEdit Tool},
#> author = {{Anita Makori} and {Ernest Guevarra}},
#> year = {2024},
#> note = {R package version 0.0.9000},
#> url = {https://oxford-ihtm.io/codeditr/},
#> }
Feedback, bug reports and feature requests are welcome; file issues or seek support here. If you would like to contribute to the package, please see our contributing guidelines.
This project is released with a Contributor Code of Conduct. By participating in this project you agree to abide by its terms.