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Convert between measurements and z-scores/percentiles for INTERGROWTH-21st and WHO Child Growth Standards, and classify growth patterns.

github.com/ropensci/gigs ↗

gigs redesigned its whole conversion API for rOpenSci, then spent three releases getting the docs to build.

growth-standardsneonatal-healthr-packageropenscianthropometry
◆Current state
gigs implements international newborn and infant growth standards — INTERGROWTH-21st, WHO — converting anthropometric measurements to z-scores and centiles and classifying growth outcomes. The 0.5.0 release rewrote the public API around rOpenSci review feedback; the two releases after it change no code at all, existing purely to get the documentation site building.
◆Where it's heading
The package has moved from vector-in, vector-out conversion helpers to a data.frame-oriented interface with a single classify_growth() entry point that computes whatever outcomes the supplied columns allow. That is a shift from library to tool — the user describes their data rather than picking the right function. The trailing releases suggest the code is settled and the remaining work is packaging and discoverability.
◆Prediction
With the API rewrite absorbed and hosting moved to rOpenSci, the next substantive release should add growth standards or outcomes rather than reshape the interface again.

◆Recent moves

  1. 1y ago

    Docs and Zenodo archiving

    Article and documentation adjustments for the rOpenSci website build, plus Zenodo caching. The third consecutive release with no functional change.

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  2. 1y ago

    Docs-only release; nothing changed internally

    The notes say it outright — nothing internal changed from 0.5.0, the release exists to get the docs site building. Published a day after the release it patches.

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  3. 1y ago

    Conversion API rewritten around data frames and classify_growth()

    ⚡ SPARK

    The release the current package dates from: a breaking redesign of both conversion and classification, plus an id parameter that lets the package reason about individuals rather than isolated measurements.

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  4. 2y ago

    Documentation fixes for autotest compliance

    Documentation and vignette adjustments to pass automated package testing. Part of the run-up to rOpenSci review.

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  5. 2y ago

    INTERGROWTH-21st fetal standards and input validation

    Substantial content growth — fetal growth, Doppler, and brain development standards — plus checkmate-based input validation and configurable warning behaviour. The largest coverage expansion in the window, before the interface was redesigned around it.

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  6. 2y ago

    Patch release with documentation update

    A pull-request list with no described user-facing change. The release notes carry no detail beyond the merge history.

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