get_cdc_data: Get CDC United States Cancer Statistics Data: All Data...

Description Usage Arguments Details Value

Description

Downloads and unzips pathToZip file from CDC website returns data.table version of BYAGE.TXT file which contains mortality and incidence rates by age group, race, sex, site, and year

Usage

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  get_cdc_data(pathToZip = "http://www.cdc.gov/cancer/npcr/uscs/USCS_1999_2014_ASCII.zip")

Arguments

pathToZip

character Path to zip file on cdc website

Details

see https://www.cdc.gov/cancer/npcr/uscs/download_data.htm which has links to all historical data

Value

data.table


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