R Observatory: Metrics for healthbR version 0.2.0

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

healthbR

0.2.0

Access Brazilian Public Health Data

0packages depend

1.9Kdownloads / year

54.2%test coverage

13/13checks pass

Overview

About

Maintained by Sidney BissoliFirst published 2026-02-033 releasesCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗

Provides easy access to Brazilian public health data from multiple sources including VIGITEL (Surveillance of Risk Factors for Chronic Diseases by Telephone Survey), PNS (National Health Survey), 'PNAD' Continua (Continuous National Household Sample Survey), 'POF' (Household Budget Survey with food security and consumption data), 'Censo Demografico' (population denominators via 'SIDRA' API), SIM (Mortality Information System), SINASC (Live Birth Information System), 'SIH' (Hospital Information System), 'SIA' (Outpatient Information System), 'SINAN' (Notifiable Diseases Surveillance), 'CNES' (National Health Facility Registry), 'SI-PNI' (National Immunization Program - aggregated 1994-2019 via FTP, individual-level 'microdata' 2020+ via 'OpenDataSUS' API), 'SISAB' (Primary Care Health Information System - coverage indicators via REST API), ANS ('Agencia Nacional de Saude Suplementar' - supplementary health beneficiaries, consumer complaints, and financial statements), 'ANVISA' ('Agencia Nacional de Vigilancia Sanitaria' - product registrations, 'pharmacovigilance', 'hemovigilance', 'technovigilance', and controlled substance sales via 'SNGPC'), and other health information systems. Data is downloaded from the Brazilian Ministry of Health and 'IBGE' repositories. Data is returned in tidy format following tidyverse conventions.

Install

R (CRAN)pak (dev)Ubuntu (r2u)Fedora (COPR)openSUSE (OBS)

install.packages("healthbR", repos = "https://cloud.r-project.org/")

Installs the current CRAN release. Prebuilt binaries on Windows and macOS.

if (!requireNamespace("pak", quietly = TRUE))
  install.packages("pak", repos = "https://cloud.r-project.org/")
pak::pak("SidneyBissoli/healthbR")

Development version from SidneyBissoli/healthbR. Installs pak first if it is not already available.

Release

# enable cranapt (r2u) if it is not already set up, then install
grep -rqs r2u.stat.illinois.edu /etc/apt/sources.list /etc/apt/sources.list.d/ \
  || curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/eddelbuettel/r2u/master/inst/scripts/add_cranapt_noble.sh | sudo bash
sudo apt install -y r-cran-healthbr

Fast Ubuntu binaries via r2u (no compilation). The cranapt setup runs once and is skipped when it is already enabled.

bspm (used by r2u) also needs make: sudo apt install make

# enable the iucar/cran COPR if it is not already present, then install
ls /etc/yum.repos.d/*iucar*cran*.repo >/dev/null 2>&1 \
  || sudo dnf copr enable -y iucar/cran
sudo dnf install -y R-CRAN-healthbR

RPMs from the iucar/cran COPR, rebuilt from CRAN.

For install.packages() integration in R, also: sudo dnf install R-CoprManager

# add the autoCRAN OBS repo (Tumbleweed) if it is missing, then install
zypper -q lr | grep -qi autoCRAN \
  || sudo zypper addrepo https://download.opensuse.org/repositories/devel:/languages:/R:/autoCRAN/openSUSE_Tumbleweed/devel:languages:R:autoCRAN.repo
sudo zypper install -y R-healthbR

RPMs auto-built from CRAN on openSUSE OBS (Tumbleweed).

Health

CRAN checks

13OK

Slowest check: 22.3 min · r-oldrel-macos-x86_64

Code health

Yes

Tests · ratio 0.57

54.2%

Coverage · measured lines

100%

Documentation · exports

10

Dependencies · direct

Check history

OK2026-08-05
13 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
NOTE2026-08-01
12 OK · 1 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
OK2026-06-08
13 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
ERROR2026-06-07
12 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 1 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
OK2026-03-10
14 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE

Documentation

READMEYes · 382 wordsVignettesYes · dynamicpkgdown siteNoNEWSYes · 100% structuredCode of conductNoContributing guideNo

Examples that run: 100%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 100%
References docs: 0%

Downloads

1.9K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #11,756 · ~5/day · ~160/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

20830 days

84290 days

1.9K1 year

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Repository

GitHub ↗ sidneybissoli/healthbr

8Stars

2Forks

1Open issues

0Open PRs

0Releases

97Commits

1Contributors

97 commits · Last activity 2026-07-31 · +33.3% stars, 30d

Stars over time

2026-02-19 · 12026-07-29 · 8

Repository practices

Upstream repositoryBeta

3 development-tooling and community-health practices detected across 3 families in the upstream repository

Checks run against github.com/sidneybissoli/healthbr on 2026-08-09.

Continuous integration (1)

GitHub Actions

CRAN release process (1)

cran-comments.md

Lint, format, editor (1)

RStudio project

How this is detected·Detection ruleset v1 (2026-07-18)

Development tooling

AI-assisted toolingBeta

Uses AI-assisted development tooling (declared in repo)

Earliest detected marker: claude on 2026-01-29

claude

Most recent: claude on 2026-01-29

Evidence

claude: on 2026-01-29 · evidence B, D

How this is detected·Detection ruleset v2 (updated 2026-07-29)

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

22 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Depends (1)

R >= 4.2.0

Imports (10)

tibble dplyr curl cli rlang stringr purrr readr jsonliteforeign

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (13)

testthat knitr rmarkdown readxl haven furrr future arrow dbplyr duckdb piggyback survey srvyr

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

0direct

0indirect

Nothing depends on this yet.

Code & Tests

People & History

People (1)

Maintainer (1)

Sidney Bissoli

Author, Maintainer

Authors (1)

Sidney Bissoli

Author, Maintainer

Package Timeline

3 releases. Pick two to compare their code metrics. R releases are shown for context.

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R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
0.2.0Latest
2026-02-15 · current release · diff ↗
0.1.1
2026-02-04 · diff ↗
0.1.0
2026-02-03
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R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11

Package metadata

First published: 2026-02-03
Total releases: 3 / 1 yrs
License: MIT + file LICENSE OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 4.2.0
Download size: 410 KB
Installed size: not tracked yet
With dependencies: not tracked yet

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("healthbR")

Format

Bissoli, S. (2026). healthbR: Access Brazilian Public Health Data (Version 0.2.0) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.healthbR

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Format

APA

Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for healthbR version 0.2.0 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-08-09. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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