anthro: Computation of the WHO Child Growth Standards

Provides WHO Child Growth Standards (z-scores) with confidence intervals and standard errors around the prevalence estimates, taking into account complex sample designs. More information on the methods is available online: <https://www.who.int/tools/child-growth-standards>.

Version: 1.1.0
Depends: R (≥ 3.2)
Imports: survey
Suggests: testthat
Published: 2026-01-29
DOI: 10.32614/CRAN.package.anthro
Author: Dirk Schumacher [aut], Elaine Borghi [ctb, cre], Jonathan Polonsky [ctb], Giovanna Gatica Dominguez [ctb], World Health Organization [cph]
Maintainer: Elaine Borghi <nfsdata at who.int>
BugReports: https://github.com/WorldHealthOrganization/anthro/issues
License: GPL-3
URL: https://github.com/WorldHealthOrganization/anthro
NeedsCompilation: no
Materials: README, NEWS
CRAN checks: anthro results

Documentation:

Reference manual: anthro.html , anthro.pdf

Downloads:

Package source: anthro_1.1.0.tar.gz
Windows binaries: r-devel: anthro_1.0.1.zip, r-release: anthro_1.0.1.zip, r-oldrel: anthro_1.0.1.zip
macOS binaries: r-release (arm64): anthro_1.1.0.tgz, r-oldrel (arm64): anthro_1.1.0.tgz, r-release (x86_64): anthro_1.1.0.tgz, r-oldrel (x86_64): anthro_1.1.0.tgz
Old sources: anthro archive

Reverse dependencies:

Reverse imports: anthroplus
Reverse suggests: sitrep

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