nhanesA (version 0.6.5.3)

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

Description

DXA data were acquired from 1999-2006.

Usage

nhanesDXA(year, suppl = FALSE, destfile = NULL)

Arguments

year

The year of the data to import, where 1999<=year<=2006.

suppl

If TRUE then retrieve the supplemental data (default=FALSE).

destfile

The name of a destination file. If NULL then the data are imported into the R environment but no file is created.

Value

By default the table is returned as a data frame. When downloading to file, the return argument is the integer code from download.file where 0 means success and non-zero indicates failure to download.

Details

Provide destfile in order to write the data to file. If destfile is not provided then the data will be imported into the R environment.

Examples

# NOT RUN {
dxa_b <- nhanesDXA(2001)
# }
# NOT RUN {
dxa_c_s <- nhanesDXA(2003, suppl=TRUE)
# }
# NOT RUN {
nhanesDXA(1999, destfile="dxx.xpt")
# }