healthiar: Quantifying and Monetizing Health Impacts Attributable to Exposure

This R package has been developed with a focus on air pollution and noise but can be applied to other exposures. The initial development has been funded by the European Union project BEST-COST. Disclaimer: It is work in progress and the developers are not liable for any calculation errors or inaccuracies resulting from the use of this package. Selection of relevant references (in chronological order): WHO (2003) <https://www.who.int/publications/i/item/9241546204>, Murray et al. (2003) <doi:10.1186/1478-7954-1-1>, Miller & Hurley (2003) <doi:10.1136/jech.57.3.200>, Steenland & Armstrong (2006) <doi:10.1097/01.ede.0000229155.05644.43>, WHO (2011) <https://iris.who.int/items/723ab97c-5c33-4e3b-8df1-744aa5bc1c27>, GBD 2019 Risk Factors Collaborators (2020) <doi:10.1016/S0140-6736(20)30752-2>.

Version: 0.2.3
Depends: R (≥ 4.2.0)
Imports: dplyr, tidyr, purrr, tibble, Rdpack
Suggests: sf, terra, exactextractr, testthat, devtools, knitr, rmarkdown
Published: 2026-02-19
DOI: 10.32614/CRAN.package.healthiar
Author: Alberto Castro ORCID iD [cre, aut], Axel Luyten ORCID iD [aut], Arno Pauwels ORCID iD [ctb], Liliana Vazquez Fernandez ORCID iD [ctb], Gianni Ardielli ORCID iD [ctb], Iracy Pimenta ORCID iD [ctb], Susanne Breitner ORCID iD [ctb], Carl Baravelli ORCID iD [ctb], Vanessa Gorasso ORCID iD [ctb], Maria Lepnurm ORCID iD [ctb], Andreia Novais ORCID iD [ctb], Maria Jose Rueda Lopez ORCID iD [ctb], Minh Nhat Pham ORCID iD [ctb], Ana Barbosa ORCID iD [ctb], Joao Vasco Santos ORCID iD [ctb], Anette Kocbach Bolling ORCID iD [ctb]
Maintainer: Alberto Castro <alberto.castrofernandez at swisstph.ch>
BugReports: https://github.com/SwissTPH/healthiar/issues
License: GPL (≥ 3)
URL: https://swisstph.github.io/healthiar/, https://github.com/SwissTPH/healthiar, https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.18220361
NeedsCompilation: no
Citation: healthiar citation info
Materials: README, NEWS
CRAN checks: healthiar results

Documentation:

Reference manual: healthiar.html , healthiar.pdf
Vignettes: Vignette: Intro to healthiar (source, R code)

Downloads:

Package source: healthiar_0.2.3.tar.gz
Windows binaries: r-devel: healthiar_0.2.2.zip, r-release: healthiar_0.2.2.zip, r-oldrel: healthiar_0.2.2.zip
macOS binaries: r-release (arm64): healthiar_0.2.2.tgz, r-oldrel (arm64): healthiar_0.2.2.tgz, r-release (x86_64): healthiar_0.2.2.tgz, r-oldrel (x86_64): healthiar_0.2.2.tgz
Old sources: healthiar archive

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