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# nhanesA | ||
R package for browsing and retrieving NHANES data. | ||
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The goal of nhanesA is to allow fully customizable selection and import of NHANES data, as well as retrieval of information pertaining to NHANES data. | ||
With nhanesA, most NHANES tables that are in SAS 'XPT' format can be readily imported as a data frame object. | ||
NHANES tables are imported directly from the NHANES website so it is essential to have an active network connection. | ||
No data is stored internally to nhanesA. | ||
R package for browsing and retrieving data from the National Health And Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES). | ||
This package is designed to be useful for research and instructional purposes. | ||
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The functions in the nhanesA package allow for fully customizable selection and import of data directly from the [NHANES website](http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/nhanes/) thus it is essential to have an active network connection. | ||
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Install from CRAN: install.packages("nhanesA") | ||
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Install from the dev repo: install_github("cjendres1/nhanes") | ||
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[Manual](https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/nhanesA/nhanesA.pdf) | ||
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[Vignette: Introducing nhanesA](https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/nhanesA/vignettes/Introducing_nhanesA.html) | ||
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Several functions are provided to browse the NHANES database, including browseNHANES() which opens a browser to the NHANES website. | ||
There are also functions that make use of rvest web scraping utilities to list available NHANES tables, their attributes, constituent variables, and code translations. |
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