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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 ORCID iD [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: microdatasus_3.0.0.zip, 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

Linking:

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These binaries (installable software) and packages are in development.
They may not be fully stable and should be used with caution. We make no claims about them.
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