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AdhereR: an R package for computing adherence to medications and for visualising medication histories

This is a package for the R open-source statistical environment implementing various ways of computing adherence to medications and visualisations high quality (publication-ready) of medication histories.

There is an accompanying package AdhereRViz that specifically implements an interactive graphical user interface (a GUI) that allows the user to explore various datasets, computations and visualisations. The present package (AdhereR) can be installed without AdhereRViz if there is no need for an interactive GUI and/or if the setup does not allow all of AdhereRViz's dependencies to be installed or run (e.g., in a server/batch environment or on some old Operating Systems).

More information is given in the package's various vignettes and in the accompanying paper:

Dima AL, Dediu D (2017). Computation of adherence to medication and visualization of medication histories in R with AdhereR: Towards transparent and reproducible use of electronic healthcare data. PLoS ONE, 12(4): e0174426. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0174426

While the package can be created from the source or installed using the source package (.tar.gz) provided in this repository, we recommend that users install it directly from The Comprehensive R Archive Network (CRAN) using the normal procedure1 (i.e., install.packages("AdhereR", dep=TRUE)).

The package is implemented in pure R, but optimised to work on mid-range hardware even for large databases (stored, for example, in an SQL RDBMS), single-threaded or parallelized in large heterogeneous clusters (using, for example, Apache Hadoop), and runs on any platform that supports R. A standardized interface allows AdhereR to be used transparently from other programming languages or platforms, and a fully functional bridge to Psython 3 is provided as an example. The code is released under GPL v3.

Feedback is welcome, preferably by using GitHub's Issues system for bug reporting and suggestions.

For what is new in each release, please see the NEWS.md file.

Copyright (by period, in alphabetical order by family name; please see individual files for details) (C):

  • 2015-2018: Alexandra Dima, Dan Dediu
  • 2018-2019: Samuel Allemann, Alexandra Dima, Dan Dediu

1 There might be a delay between the release of new versions here and their availability on CRAN; in this case, we would recommend, if possible, to wait for the version to appear on CRAN.