getData: Get MCAPS data objecdts

In MCAPS: MCAPS data and results

Description

Retrieve MCAPS data objects from remote database.

Usage

getData(name = NULL)

Arguments

name	character, name of data object to retrieve

Details

If name is NULL for getData, then a character vector is returned (invisibly) containing the names of all the available data objects. Current data objects are

APWdata

a list of air pollution and weather data for all 204 U.S. counties.

siteList

character vector containing 5-digit FIPS codes for all counties.

estimates.subset

subset of county-specific log-relative risk estimates from MCAPS study.

estimates.full

full set of county-specific log-relative risk estimates from MCAPS study.

Author(s)

Roger D. Peng [e-mail]

References

Dominici F, Peng RD, Bell ML, Pham L, McDermott A, Zeger SL, Samet JM (2006). "Fine Particulate Air Pollution and Hospital Admission for Cardiovascular and Respiratory Diseases," Journal of the American Medical Association, 295 (10) 1127–1134.

Examples

## Not run: 
initMCAPS()
getData()
siteList <- getData("sitesList")
head(siteList)

## End(Not run)

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