My group plans to implement a conversion procedure between ICD-9 and ICD-10 codes in R based on the codes found here: http://www.nber.org/data/icd9-icd-10-cm-and-pcs-crosswalk-general-equivalence-mapping.html. It seems like this package would be a natural location for such functionality -- would you consider a pull request if I added such a feature? Do you have any preferences what the API would look like?