R Automatic Data System (RADS)

Purpose

RADS is a suite of tools written in R and designed to make standard public health analyses faster, more standardized, and less prone to error. While we hope the tools are applicable for different settings, the toolset has been customized to the needs of PHSKC's APDE. While this package has only been tested in Windows, it should work identically on a Linux or Mac OS machine.

Installation

If you haven't yet installed rads, follow these steps:

1. Make sure remotes is installed:

   install.packages("remotes")
   

2. Install rads:

   remotes::install_github("PHSKC-APDE/rads", auth_token = NULL)
   

   To install GitHub from a particular branch, specify it with the ref argument, e.g.,

   remotes::install_github("PHSKC-APDE/rads", ref = "dev", auth_token = NULL)
   

3. Load rads:

   library(rads)
   

Reference Data

All reference data are either built into rads or are available via rads.data, which is automatically installed when you install rads.

Permissions

As of version 1.5.2, all functions that need SQL Server fo file server access have been deprecated and moved to a private package. Therefore you should not need any permissions to run a current RADS release.

Releases

Please refer to the releases page for details on the package history and particular releases.

Getting started

After installation, we highly recommend that you start by walking through a vignette on the wiki, e.g., calc().

Problems?

If you come across a bug or have specific suggestions for improvement, please click on Issues at the top of this page and then click New Issue and provide the necessary details.