A Curated Collection of Pulmonary and Respiratory Disease Datasets
Overview
Provides a comprehensive and curated collection of datasets related to the lungs, respiratory system, and associated diseases. This package includes epidemiological, clinical, experimental, and simulated datasets on conditions such as lung cancer, asthma, Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD), tuberculosis, whooping cough, pneumonia, influenza, and other respiratory illnesses. It is designed to support data exploration, statistical modeling, teaching, and research in pulmonary medicine, public health, environmental epidemiology, and respiratory disease surveillance.
Minor Changes
- Updated
inst/CITATIONfile to include the official CRAN DOI (10.32614/CRAN.package.PulmoDataSets) for proper citation support.
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Install
Health
- OK13 OK2026-09-08
- ERROR12 OK, 1 ERROR2026-09-07
- OK13 OK2026-08-05
- NOTE12 OK, 1 NOTE2026-08-01
- OK14 OK2026-03-10
Documentation
- Help pages
- 38includes a package overview page
- Examples that run
- 100%1 run in a plain check (under a condition)
- Exported functions with examples
- 3%
- Documented parameters
- 0%
- Return-value docs
- 3%
- Help pages citing references
- 0%
Downloads
Repository
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GitHub Pages site last deployed 2026-03-05
pkgdown site last built 2026-03-04, before release 0.2.1 (2026-03-05)
Dependencies
Installing PulmoDataSets adds no packages beyond those that come with R.
Code & Tests
Datasets
People & History
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- RR 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
- 0.2.1Latest
- 0.2.0
- 0.1.02025-06-03
- RR 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11
Package metadata
- First published
- 2025-06-03
- Total releases
- 3 / 1 yrs
- License
- GPL-3 OSI
- Minimum R
- ≥ 4.1.0
- Bundled data
- 186 KB / 36 files
- Download size
- 383 KB
Cite
Cite this package
Run in R for the authors' entry:
citation("PulmoDataSets")The package provides a citation file, so citation() returns the authors' own entry.
It points to 10.32614/cran.package.pulmodatasets.
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For a number measured here: a download total, a coverage figure, an archival date.
From data release v2026-10-23, which the citation names so these numbers can be found later. More on citing and the projects behind them.