nhanesSearchVarName: Search for tables that contain a specified variable.
In oslerinhealth/nhanesA: NHANES Data Retrieval

Description Usage Arguments Details Examples

View source: R/nhanes.R

Returns a list of table names that contain the variable

nhanesSearchVarName(
  varname = NULL,
  ystart = NULL,
  ystop = NULL,
  includerdc = FALSE,
  nchar = 100,
  namesonly = TRUE
)

`varname`	Name of variable to match.
`ystart`	Four digit year of first survey included in search, where ystart >= 1999.
`ystop`	Four digit year of final survey included in search, where ystop >= ystart.
`includerdc`	If TRUE then RDC only tables are included in list (default=FALSE).
`nchar`	Truncates the variable description to a max length of nchar.
`namesonly`	If TRUE then only the table names are returned (default=TRUE).

The NHANES Comprehensive Variable List is scanned to find all data tables that contain the given variable name. Only a single variable name may be entered, and only exact matches will be found.