kfre: Kidney Failure Risk Equation (KFRE) Tools

Implements the Kidney Failure Risk Equation (KFRE; Tangri and colleagues (2011) <doi:10.1001/jama.2011.451>; Tangri and colleagues (2016) <doi:10.1001/jama.2015.18202>) to compute 2- and 5-year kidney failure risk using 4-, 6-, and 8-variable models. Includes helpers to append risk columns to data frames, classify chronic kidney disease (CKD) stages and end-stage renal disease (ESRD) outcomes, and evaluate and plot model performance.

Version: 0.0.2
Depends: R (≥ 3.6)
Imports: ggplot2, grDevices, R6
Suggests: devtools, knitr, readxl, rmarkdown, rprojroot, spelling, svglite, testthat (≥ 3.0.0)
Published: 2025-08-28
Author: Leonid Shpaner ORCID iD [aut, cre] (URL: https://www.leonshpaner.com)
Maintainer: Leonid Shpaner <lshpaner at ucla.edu>
BugReports: https://github.com/lshpaner/kfre_r/issues
License: MIT + file LICENSE
URL: https://github.com/lshpaner/kfre_r, https://lshpaner.github.io/kfre_r/
NeedsCompilation: no
Language: en-US
Citation: kfre citation info
Materials: README, NEWS
CRAN checks: kfre results

Documentation:

Reference manual: kfre.html , kfre.pdf
Vignettes: kfre: Getting Started (source, R code)

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Package source: kfre_0.0.2.tar.gz
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