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nhanesdata

Harmonized Access to NHANES Survey Data

v0.2.1 · Feb 28, 2026 · MIT + file LICENSE

Description

Instant access to harmonized National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES) data spanning 1999-2023. Retrieve pre-processed datasets from reliable cloud storage with automatic type reconciliation and integrated search tools for variables and datasets. Simplifies NHANES data workflows by handling cycle management and maintaining data consistency across survey waves. Data is sourced from <https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/nhanes/>.

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ERROR r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

re-building of vignette outputs

Error(s) in re-building vignettes:
--- re-building 'covid-data-exclusion.Rmd' using rmarkdown
--- finished re-building 'covid-data-exclusion.Rmd'

--- re-building 'getting-started.Rmd' using rmarkdown

Quitting from getting-started.Rmd:57-63 [load-demo]
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<error/rlang_error>
Error:
! Failed to load dataset 'DEMO'.
  URL: https://nhanes.kylegrealis.com/demo.parquet
  Error: cannot open URL 'https://nhanes.kylegrealis.com/demo.parquet'
  Did you misspell the dataset name?
---
Backtrace:
    ▆
 1. └─nhanesdata::read_nhanes("demo")
 2.   └─base::tryCatch(...)
 3.     └─base (local) tryCatchList(expr, classes, parentenv, handlers)
 4.       └─base (local) tryCatchOne(expr, names, parentenv, handlers[[1L]])
 5.         └─value[[3L]](cond)
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Error: processing vignette 'getting-started.Rmd' failed with diagnostics:
Failed to load dataset 'DEMO'.
  URL: https://nhanes.kylegrealis.com/demo.parquet
  Error: cannot open URL 'https://nhanes.kylegrealis.com/demo.parquet'
  Did you misspell the dataset name?
--- failed re-building 'getting-started.Rmd'

--- re-building 'survey-design.Rmd' using rmarkdown
--- finished re-building 'survey-design.Rmd'

--- re-building 'the-datasets.Rmd' using rmarkdown
--- finished re-building 'the-datasets.Rmd'

SUMMARY: processing the following file failed:
  'getting-started.Rmd'

Error: Vignette re-building failed.
Execution halted
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ERROR 13 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 1 ERROR · 0 FAILURE Mar 9, 2026
ERROR r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

re-building of vignette outputs

Error(s) in re-building vignettes:
--- re-building 'covid-data-exclusion.Rmd' using rmarkdown
--- finished re-building 'covid-data-exclusion.Rmd'

--- re-building 'getting-started.Rmd' using rmarkdown

Quitting from getting-started.Rmd:57-63 [load-demo]
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<error/rlang_error>
Error:
! Failed to load dataset 'DEMO'.
  URL: https://nhanes.kylegrealis.com/demo.parquet
  Error: cannot open URL 'https://nhanes.kylegrealis.c

Dependency Network

Dependencies Reverse dependencies arrow dplyr nhanesA rlang scales stringr srvyr tibble nhanesdata

Version History

new 0.2.1 Mar 9, 2026