cran/mwana

:exclamation: This is a read-only mirror of the CRAN R package repository. mwana — An Efficient Workflow for Plausibility Checks and Prevalence Analysis of Wasting in R. Homepage: github.com, mphimo.github.io Report bugs for this package: github.com # mwana: An efficient workflow for plausibility checks and prevalence analysis of wasting in R Child anthropometric assessments are central to child nutrition and food-security surveillance worldwide. Ensuring the quality of these data is essential for accurate estimates of child undernutrition prevalence. Timely reporting is also critical for situation analysis and for mounting effective responses. The `mwana` package streamlines data-quality checks and acute-undernutrition prevalence estimation from anthropometric data for children aged 6–59 months. It builds on methods and guidance from the SMART initiative and provides convenient wrappers around functions in the `nipnTK` package. The term ***mwana*** means child in *Elómwè*, a local language spoken in the central-northern regions of Mozambique where the author hails from. It also has a similar meaning across other Bantu languages, such as *Swahili*, spoken in many parts of Africa. ## Motivation The standard child-anthropometry appraisal workflow is complex and time-consuming, relying on multiple tools—such as SPSS, Microsoft Excel, and SMART ENA software—for various steps of the process. Each dataset requires the repetition of these steps—often under tight deadlines, which makes the manual and repetitive workflow highly error-prone. `mwana` provides functions that simplify this cumbersome workflow, enabling it to be programmatically designed, particularly when handling multi-area datasets. ## Installation You can install `mwana` from CRAN with: ``` r if (!require(pak)) { install.packages("pak") } pak::pkg_install("mwana") ``` You can install the development version of `mwana` from GitHub with: ``` r if (!require(pak)) { install.packages("pak") } pak::pkg_install(pkg = "mphimo/mwana", dependencies = TRUE) ``` ## What does `mwana` do? ### 1. Data plausibility checks of acute undernutrition anthropometric data of children 6-59 months old `mwana` provides functions to perform data plausibility …