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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.

The functions in the nhanesA package allow for fully customizable selection and import of data directly from the NHANES website thus it is essential to have an active network connection.

Install from CRAN: install.packages("nhanesA")

Install from the dev repo: install_github("cjendres1/nhanes")

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install.packages('nhanesA')

Monthly Downloads

2,280

Version

0.6.5.3

License

GPL (>= 2)

Last Published

January 31st, 2021

Functions in nhanesA (0.6.5.3)

nhanesAttr

Returns the attributes of an NHANES data table.
nhanesSearchVarName

Search for tables that contain a specified variable.
browseNHANES

Open a browser to NHANES.
nhanesTableVars

Displays a list of variables in the specified NHANES table.
nhanesTranslate

Display code translation information.
nhanesSearchTableNames

Search for matching table names
nhanesSearch

Perform a search over the comprehensive NHANES variable list.
nhanesTables

Returns a list of table names for the specified survey group.
nhanes

Download an NHANES table and return as a data frame.
nhanesDXA

Import Dual Energy X-ray Absorptiometry (DXA) data.