microdatasus: Download and Process 'DataSUS' Files
Downloads and processes health microdata from Brazilian Unified Health System ('DataSUS') information systems. It handles the compressed 'DBC' format internally and provides functions to organize variables and add labels to categorical fields from mortality, live births, hospital admissions, outpatient care, health facilities, and notifiable diseases data. For details, see Saldanha et al. (2019) <doi:10.1590/0102-311x00032419>.
| Version: | 3.0.0 |
| Depends: | R (≥ 4.1.0) |
| Imports: | checkmate, cli, curl, data.table, dplyr (≥ 1.2.0), foreign, magrittr, rlang, stringi, tibble, utils, zip |
| Suggests: | lubridate, testthat (≥ 3.0.0) |
| Published: | 2026-07-29 |
| DOI: | 10.32614/CRAN.package.microdatasus |
| Author: | Raphael Saldanha 
[aut, cre],
Sidney da Silva Pereira Bissoli [ctb, cph] (DBC decompression code),
Mark Adler [ctb, cph] (blast decompressor) |
| Maintainer: | Raphael Saldanha <raphael.saldanha at fiocruz.br> |
| BugReports: | https://github.com/rfsaldanha/microdatasus/issues |
| License: | MIT + file LICENSE |
| Copyright: | See file inst/COPYRIGHTS. microdatasus copyright details |
| URL: | https://github.com/rfsaldanha/microdatasus, https://rfsaldanha.github.io/microdatasus/ |
| NeedsCompilation: | yes |
| Citation: | microdatasus citation info |
| Materials: | NEWS |
| CRAN checks: | microdatasus results |
Documentation:
| Reference manual: | microdatasus.html , microdatasus.pdf |
Downloads:
| Package source: | microdatasus_3.0.0.tar.gz |
| Windows binaries: | r-devel: not available, r-release: not available, r-oldrel: not available |
| macOS binaries: | r-release (arm64): microdatasus_3.0.0.tgz, r-oldrel (arm64): microdatasus_3.0.0.tgz, r-release (x86_64): microdatasus_3.0.0.tgz, r-oldrel (x86_64): microdatasus_3.0.0.tgz |
| Old sources: | microdatasus archive |
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