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countyhealthrankings package

The countyhealthrankings package was developed as a way to give R users easier access to the excellent data at countyhealthrankings.org.

This package provides their 2014 - 2019 datasets, imported to R as a data.frame, to facilitate use of the data in R. Source of original data is documented here: countyhealthrankings.org/about-project

Key functions/uses include data(countyhealth19) to obtain a dataset of health indicators for US Counties, and urls.countyhealthrankings() to get URLs for US County health indicator reports.

Installation

This package is not on CRAN yet, but you can install it from Github:

if (!require('devtools')) install.packages('devtools')
devtools::install_github('ejanalysis/countyhealthrankings')

Documentation

In addition to documentation in the package, the help in pdf format is here: http://ejanalysis.github.io/countyhealthrankings/countyhealthrankings.pdf

Related Packages

This package is one of a series of R packages related to environmental justice (EJ) analysis, as part of ejanalysis.com.

This and related packages, once each is made available as a public repository on GitHub, until available on cran, can be installed using the devtools package:

if (!require('devtools')) install.packages('devtools')
devtools::install_github("ejanalysis/analyze.stuff")  
devtools::install_github("ejanalysis/countyhealthrankings")  
devtools::install_github("ejanalysis/UScensus2010blocks")  
devtools::install_github("ejanalysis/ACSdownload")  
devtools::install_github(c("ejanalysis/proxistat", "ejanalysis/ejanalysis"))
devtools::install_github("ejanalysis/ejscreen")

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