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datasusr: Fast Access to Brazilian Public Health Data from 'DATASUS'

Description

Provides fast, in-memory reading of 'DATASUS' 'DBC' files using native 'C' code, along with a catalog of public health data sources, 'FTP' file discovery, caching downloads, and a high-level datasus_fetch() function that lists, downloads, and reads files in a single call. Bundles the 'blast' decompressor from 'zlib' contrib/blast to decode 'PKWare DCL' compressed 'DBC' files and parses 'DBF' records directly for efficient import into tibbles. See the 'DATASUS' file transfer site https://datasus.saude.gov.br and Adler (2003) https://github.com/madler/zlib/tree/master/contrib/blast for details on the underlying data and compression format.

Author(s)

Maintainer: Andre Leite [e-mail] (ORCID)

Authors:

• Andre Leite [e-mail] (ORCID)

• Marcos Wasiliew [e-mail] (ORCID)

• Hugo Vasconcelos [e-mail] (ORCID)

• Carlos Amorim [e-mail] (ORCID)

• Diogo Bezerra [e-mail] (ORCID)

Other contributors:

• Mark Adler (Author of bundled blast.c and blast.h from zlib contrib/blast) [contributor, copyright holder]

See Also

Useful links:

• https://strategicprojects.github.io/datasusr/

• https://github.com/StrategicProjects/datasusr

• Report bugs at https://github.com/StrategicProjects/datasusr/issues

datasusr documentation built on Sept. 26, 2026, 1:08 a.m.