cihitbls: Catalogue of CIHI open data-table workbooks (with Wayback...
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cihitbls

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Catalogue of CIHI open data-table workbooks (with Wayback fallbacks)

Description

Returns the bundled catalogue of the public data-table .xlsx workbooks published on the Canadian Institute for Health Information (CIHI) “Access data and reports > Data tables” page (https://www.cihi.ca/en/access-data-and-reports/data-tables). Each row carries the table title, its direct url, and a wayback_url snapshot on the Internet Archive so the table stays retrievable even if CIHI rotates or removes the live file.

Usage

cihitbls(archonly = FALSE)

Arguments

archonly

If TRUE, drop rows with no Wayback snapshot. Default FALSE (return the full catalogue).

Details

Pair with rmorie::morie_ingest_cihi_xlsx() to download + parse any row (that helper tries url first and falls back to wayback_url). The Wayback snapshots were resolved with rmoriebricklayer::wbsnpurl().

Value

A data.frame with columns title, url, wayback_url.

Source

Canadian Institute for Health Information, Data tables (https://www.cihi.ca/en/access-data-and-reports/data-tables). Snapshotted to the Internet Archive (https://web.archive.org). Catalogue current as of 2026-07.

Examples

# Full catalogue: title, live url, Wayback snapshot url.
cat <- cihitbls()
nrow(cat)
names(cat)
head(cat$title, 3)

# `archonly = TRUE` keeps only rows that have a Wayback snapshot,
# i.e. tables still retrievable if CIHI rotates the live file.
arch <- cihitbls(archonly = TRUE)
nrow(arch) # <= nrow(cat)
all(nzchar(arch$wayback_url)) # TRUE

# Find a table by keyword before fetching it.
cat$title[grepl("hospital", cat$title, ignore.case = TRUE)][1:3]

rmoriedata documentation built on Nov. 12, 2026, 9:06 a.m.