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In mustafaascha/nisr: Read and Translate National Inpatient Sample Data

nisr

Easily read National Inpatient Sample data into R

This package makes it easier to read National Inpatient Sample (NIS) data into R. This package is a wrapper for read_fwf from the readr package, but with all of the options set up for you using formatting files provided by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality.

Of course, you will have to provide the data. Assuming you have the NIS ASCII file of interest, you can read it using read_nis. You'll have to specify the file path, the particular type of NIS file that you'd like to read ("core", "hospital", "severity", "diagnosis"), and the year.

For example, if I wanted to read the data from the Core NIS file from 2012, I would run the following command:

NIS_core_2012 <- read_nis("CORE_NIS_2012", file_type = "core", year = 2012)

To install, use devtools:

install.packages("devtools")

devtools::install_github("mustafaascha/nisr")

Feel free to contribute or ask questions.

Note: I don't have all of the NIS years, so I can only guarantee that the year 2012 will work. Also, I have yet to ensure that the hospitality, severity, and diagnosis/procedure files work.

mustafaascha/nisr documentation built on May 23, 2019, 10:52 a.m.