healthbR: Access Brazilian Public Health Data

Provides easy access to Brazilian public health data from multiple sources including VIGITEL (Surveillance of Risk Factors for Chronic Diseases by Telephone Survey), PNS (National Health Survey), SIM (Mortality Information System), SINASC (Live Birth Information System), and other health information systems. Data is downloaded from the Brazilian Ministry of Health VIGITEL repository <https://svs.aids.gov.br/download/Vigitel/>. Data is returned in tidy format following tidyverse conventions.

Version:	0.1.0
Depends:	R (≥ 4.2.0)
Imports:	tibble, dplyr, readxl, curl, cli, rlang, stringr, janitor, arrow, purrr
Suggests:	testthat (≥ 3.0.0), knitr, rmarkdown, furrr, future
Published:	2026-02-03
DOI:	10.32614/CRAN.package.healthbR (may not be active yet)
Author:	Sidney Bissoli [aut, cre]
Maintainer:	Sidney Bissoli <sbissoli76 at gmail.com>
BugReports:	https://github.com/SidneyBissoli/healthbR/issues
License:	MIT + file LICENSE
URL:	https://github.com/SidneyBissoli/healthbR
NeedsCompilation:	no
Citation:	healthbR citation info
Materials:	README, NEWS
CRAN checks:	healthbR results

Documentation:

Reference manual:	healthbR.html , healthbR.pdf
Vignettes:	Introduction to healthbR (source, R code)

Downloads:

Package source:	healthbR_0.1.0.tar.gz
Windows binaries:	r-devel: not available, r-release: not available, r-oldrel: not available
macOS binaries:	r-release (arm64): not available, r-oldrel (arm64): not available, r-release (x86_64): not available, r-oldrel (x86_64): not available

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