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codeditr: Implementing Cause-of-Death Data Checks Based on the WHO CoDEdit Tool

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.

What does codeditr do?

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.

Installation

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)

Usage

Citation

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/},
#>   }

Community guidelines

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.