territory.load: Load Brazil's territory data

In danicat/datasus: An Interface for the Brazilian Public Healthcare Datasets (DATASUS)

Description

This function loads the territory data about the Brazilian federated units (UF).

Usage

territory.load(english = TRUE)

Arguments

english

Logical. Set to true to translate column names to English. Otherwise the column names are loaded in portuguese. Default is true.

Details

Code Book:

state.code integer. Code (key) used by other DATASUS systems state character. Two digit UF code (official short name) state.name character. State name in uppercase region.code integer. 1=north, 2=northeast, 3=southeast, 4=south, 5=centerwest area integer. Area in square kilometers

Value

a data.frame with Brazil's territory data

Note

DATASUS is the name of the Department of Informatics of the Brazilian Unified Health System (SUS) and is resposible for publishing public healthcare data. Besides the DATASUS, the Brazilian National Agency for Supplementary Health (ANS) also uses this file format for its public data. The name DATASUS is also often used to represent the public datasets they provide.

Neither this project, nor its author, has any association with the brazilian government.

Author(s)

Daniela Petruzalek, [e-mail]

See Also

datasus.init

Examples

tb_uf <- territory.load()

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