allofus R Package

The goal of the allofus R package is to streamline the use of R within the All of Us Researcher Workbench. It has 4 primary goals:

1. Facilitate the use of popular tidyverse ecosystem of R packages on the Researcher Workbench
2. Help researchers more efficiently and accurately extract and synthesize survey data and EHR data
3. Increase the interoperability between tools created by the Observational Health Data Sciences and Informatics community (OHDSI) for the OMOP CDM) and the Researcher Workbench
4. Make connecting to the database and managing files simple

The allofus R package was developed by Louisa Smith and Rob Cavanaugh at Northeastern University and is not affiliated with or endorsed by the All of Us Research Program.

Installation

Install the released version of allofus from CRAN:

install.packages("allofus")

Install the development version from Github:

install.packages("pak")
pak::pak("roux-ohdsi/allofus")

Use

Read through the getting started vignette to learn how to use the package.

A community workspace on the All of Us Researcher Workbench will soon be available.

Citation

Please cite the allofus package as:

Smith LH, Cavanaugh R (2024). “allofus: An R Package to Facilitate Use of the All of Us Researcher Workbench.” Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association, ocae198. doi:10.1093/jamia/ocae198.

or with

citation("allofus")

Note: A pre-print of the special issue can be found here: https://doi.org/10.1101/2024.04.10.24305611

We also encourage you to reference the specific version of the package you use for an analysis. You can look this up with

packageVersion("allofus")

Bugs

Please leave us comments, requests, and report bugs using the “Issues” tab on github.