read.dbc: Read Data Stored in 'DBC' (Compressed 'DBF') Files

Functions for reading and decompressing the 'DBC' (compressed 'DBF') files. Please note that this is the file format used by the Brazilian Ministry of Health ('DATASUS') to publish healthcare datasets. It is not related to the 'FoxPro' or 'CANdb' 'DBC' file formats.

Version: 1.2.0
Depends: R (≥ 3.3.0)
Imports: foreign
Suggests: testthat (≥ 3.0.0)
Published: 2025-11-28
DOI: 10.32614/CRAN.package.read.dbc
Author: Daniela Petruzalek [aut, cre, cph], Mark Adler [cph, ctb], Pablo Marcondes Fonseca [cph, ctb]
Maintainer: Daniela Petruzalek <daniela.petruzalek at gmail.com>
BugReports: https://github.com/danicat/read.dbc/issues
License: AGPL-3
Copyright: 2016 Daniela Petruzalek
URL: https://github.com/danicat/read.dbc
NeedsCompilation: yes
Materials: README, NEWS
CRAN checks: read.dbc results

Documentation:

Reference manual: read.dbc.html , read.dbc.pdf

Downloads:

Package source: read.dbc_1.2.0.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
Old sources: read.dbc archive

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