essential8: Reproducible Cardiovascular Health Metric Scoring
Provides a reproducible R implementation of the American Heart Association Life's Essential 8 cardiovascular health scoring framework for adults aged 20 years or older and children aged 4 months to 19 years. Calculates the eight component scores and their unweighted composite score from available component data, including raw MEPA, DASH, and HEI-2015 diet inputs and pediatric growth-chart and blood-pressure percentiles, using the 2022 definitions described by Lloyd-Jones et al. (2022) <doi:10.1161/CIR.0000000000001078>.
| Version: | 0.9.0 |
| Depends: | R (≥ 4.1.0) |
| Imports: | cli (≥ 3.6.0), generics, rlang (≥ 1.1.0) |
| Suggests: | cdcanthro, dplyr (≥ 1.1.0), ggforestplotR (≥ 0.6.0), ggplot2 (≥ 3.4.0), knitr, mice (≥ 3.16.0), pedbp, rmarkdown, testthat (≥ 3.0.0), tibble |
| Published: | 2026-11-14 |
| DOI: | 10.32614/CRAN.package.essential8 |
| Author: | Carson Richardson 
[aut, cre, cph],
Amrik Khalsa
[ctb],
Sara Conroy [ctb] |
| Maintainer: | Carson Richardson <carson.richardson at outlook.com> |
| BugReports: | https://github.com/thatoneguy006/essential8/issues |
| License: | MIT + file LICENSE |
| URL: | https://thatoneguy006.github.io/essential8/, https://github.com/thatoneguy006/essential8 |
| NeedsCompilation: | no |
| Language: | en-US |
| Materials: | README, NEWS |
| CRAN checks: | essential8 results |
Documentation:
| Reference manual: | essential8.html , essential8.pdf |
| Vignettes: |
Case study: cardiovascular health across the lifespan (source, R code) Get started with essential8 (source, R code) Pediatric AHA Scoring (source, R code) Diet scoring in Life's Essential 8 (source, R code) |
Downloads:
| Package source: | essential8_0.9.0.tar.gz |
| Windows binaries: | r-devel: essential8_0.2.0.zip, r-release: essential8_0.2.0.zip, r-oldrel: essential8_0.2.0.zip |
| macOS binaries: | r-release (arm64): essential8_0.2.0.tgz, r-oldrel (arm64): essential8_0.2.0.tgz, r-release (x86_64): essential8_0.2.0.tgz, r-oldrel (x86_64): essential8_0.2.0.tgz |
| Old sources: | essential8 archive |
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