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 complete adult records from people aged 20 years or older. Calculates the eight component scores and their unweighted composite score using the 2022 adult definition described by Lloyd-Jones et al. (2022) <doi:10.1161/CIR.0000000000001078>.

Version:	0.1.0
Imports:	cli (≥ 3.6.0)
Suggests:	knitr, rmarkdown, testthat (≥ 3.0.0)
Published:	2026-09-03
DOI:	10.32614/CRAN.package.essential8
Author:	Carson Richardson [aut, cre, cph]
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:	Get started with essential8 (source, R code)

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Package source:	essential8_0.1.0.tar.gz
Windows binaries:	r-devel: essential8_0.1.0.zip, r-release: essential8_0.1.0.zip, r-oldrel: essential8_0.1.0.zip
macOS binaries:	r-release (arm64): essential8_0.1.0.tgz, r-oldrel (arm64): essential8_0.1.0.tgz, r-release (x86_64): essential8_0.1.0.tgz, r-oldrel (x86_64): essential8_0.1.0.tgz

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