README.md

In SophiaJia/NCDBR: Tools for NCDB Analyses in R

NCDBR

Makes National Cancer Database (NCDB) R binaries. To install it use:

devtools::install_github("SophiaJia/NCDBR")

To set up NCDB data use in R, place the NCDB ASCII *.dat text file(s) in your ~/data/NCDB folder where ~ is your home directory. These files are then converted into an R binary file as follows

library(NCDBR)   #loads installed package NCDBR into memory 
d=getFields()    #gets wanted fields into a data frame
d=pickFields(d)  #picks a subset of the fields and defines their types
canc=mkNCDB(d)   #makes R binary file ~/data/NCDB/cancDef.Rdata

Check the NCDB data installation using

load("~/data/NCDB/cancDef.RData")#loads data.frame canc into memory 
head(canc,3)                     #returns top 3 rows of canc

SophiaJia/NCDBR documentation built on May 29, 2019, 12:36 p.m.