ramptools

Shared R package for the Uganda RAMP (Routine Assessment of Malaria Programs) project. Provides metadata tables, shapefiles, and database utilities used by the ETL pipeline (uga-etl-facility-data) and analytics repos (outbreak). An R package providing utility functions and reference data for working with health information systems databases, particularly DHIS2 (District Health Information System 2) data from Uganda.

Overview

ramptools simplifies working with versioned health data by providing:

• Database utilities for managing and querying versioned SQLite databases
• Period handling for DHIS2 temporal data formats (weekly/monthly)
• Reference datasets for Uganda’s administrative geography and health indicators
• Data transformation utilities for working with health information data

Key Features

Database Management

• get_latest_version() - Retrieve the most recent data version from a database
• get_version_metadata() - Access metadata for specific data versions
• get_data() - Query versioned data with filtering by ID variables and version
• get_db_diff() - Identify new or changed data compared to existing database records
• get_id_vars() / get_value_var() - Discover database schema information

Period Utilities

• get_period_range() - Generate sequences of DHIS2-formatted periods (weekly/monthly)
• make_week_map() - Create mappings between ISO weeks and dates
• make_month_map() - Create mappings between months and dates

Output Management

• get_output_dir() - Create versioned output directories with standardized naming (YYYY_MM_DD.VV)
• get_latest_output_date_index() - Find the latest version index for a given date

Data Transformation

• make_human_readable() - Merge human-readable location and indicator names onto raw DHIS2 data

Included Datasets

The package includes reference data for Uganda:

Geographic Data

• uga_district_shp - District-level shapefiles
• uga_subcounty_shp - Subcounty-level shapefiles
  
• uga_region_shp - Region-level shapefiles
• uga_water_shp - Water body shapefiles

Reference Tables

• loc_table - Location hierarchy with administrative units
• district_pop - Population data by district
• indicator_table - DHIS2 indicator definitions and metadata
• age_sex_table - Age-sex stratification reference data

Installation

# install.packages("devtools")
devtools::install_github("dd-harp/ramptools")

Contents

Data

Object	Description
loc_table	Location hierarchy — 11,229 facilities and admin units with parent-child relationships (Uganda → Region → District → DLG → Subcounty → Facility)
health_facility_table	8,676 health facilities with ownership, status, coordinates, facility type
indicator_table	~100 DHIS2 data element mappings (DHIS ID → code_name, display_name, frequency, dhis_version)
district_pop	District-level population estimates
age_sex_table	Age-sex disaggregated indicator definitions
uga_district_shp	District-level shapefile
uga_subcounty_shp	Subcounty-level shapefile
uga_region_shp	Region-level shapefile
uga_water_shp	Water body geometries

Functions

SQLite utilities (local/legacy)

• get_data() — Read versioned data from a SQLite database
• get_db_diff() — Compare new pull against stored DB, return only new/changed rows
• get_latest_version() — Get latest version number from DB
• get_version_metadata() — Get metadata for a specific version
• get_id_vars() / get_value_var() — Introspect database schema
• make_human_readable() — Join DHIS IDs to human-readable names

BigQuery utilities (cloud)

• bq_connect() — Create a BigQuery connection
• bq_get_data() — Read raw data from BigQuery (with version/filter support)
• bq_get_clean_data() — Read clean aggregated data from BigQuery
• bq_get_db_diff() — Diff new data against BigQuery
• bq_get_latest_version() — Get latest version from BigQuery
• bq_append_raw_data() / bq_append_version_metadata() — Append to BigQuery
• bq_write_clean_data() / bq_write_imputed_data() — Overwrite clean outputs
• bq_init_tables() — Initialize BigQuery schema

Period utilities

• get_period_range() — Generate DHIS-formatted period vectors
• make_week_map() / make_month_map() — Date lookup tables for DHIS periods

Output management

• get_output_dir() — Create versioned output directories

BigQuery Setup

The pipeline stores data in Google BigQuery under project uganda-malaria, dataset uga_facility_data. Tables:

Table	Description
raw_{frequency}_data	Append-only versioned raw DHIS pulls
raw_{frequency}_version_metadata	Provenance metadata per version
clean_{frequency}_data	Latest clean aggregated data (overwritten each run)
imputed_{frequency}_facility_data	Facility-level imputed data (overwritten each run)

To initialize:

library(ramptools)
bq_init_tables(frequency = "both")

Install from source

devtools::install_github(“yourusername/ramptools”) ```

Dependencies

• data.table
• DBI
• RSQLite
• dplyr

Use Case

This package is designed for teams working with: - DHIS2 health information systems data - Versioned data workflows requiring audit trails - Uganda health and geographic data analysis - Time series analysis of health indicators

License

MIT License