R Observatory: Metrics for brfssdata version 0.1.0

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

brfssdata

0.1.0

Access CDC Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System Data

0packages depend

87downloads / year

28.3%test coverage

12/12checks pass

Overview

About

Maintained by Muntasir MasumFirst published 2026-08-211 releasesCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗

Download, cache, and analyze annual microdata from the United States Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System (BRFSS) https://www.cdc.gov/brfss/. Each requested survey year is downloaded once as a compact file hosted on public releases, verified against a published checksum, and cached locally; queries then run through 'DuckDB' (via the 'duckdb' package), so column selection and repeat analyses never re-transfer data. Survey-design helpers construct 'srvyr' design objects with year-appropriate weights, strata, and primary sampling units, including explicit handling of the 2011 weighting methodology change and of the codes CDC uses for missing-type answers.

Install

R (CRAN)pak (dev)Fedora (COPR)

install.packages("brfssdata", 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("muntasirmasum/brfssdata")

Development version from muntasirmasum/brfssdata. Installs pak first if it is not already available.

# 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-brfssdata

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

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

Health

CRAN checks

12OK

Slowest check: 7.9 min · r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

Code health

Yes

Tests · ratio 1.06

28.3%

Coverage · measured lines

100%

Documentation · exports

9

Dependencies · direct

Check history

OK2026-08-22
7 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE

Documentation

READMEYes · 841 wordsVignettesYes · dynamicpkgdown siteNoNEWSYes · 67% structuredCode of conductNoContributing guideNo

Examples that run: 100%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 92%
References docs: 0%

Downloads

87

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #24,866 · ~0/day · ~7/mo

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Repository

GitHub ↗ muntasirmasum/brfssdata

3Stars

0Forks

5Open issues

0Open PRs

42Releases

93Commits

1Contributors

93 commits · Last activity 2026-08-24 · +200% stars, 30d

Stars over time

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Repository practices

Upstream repositoryBeta

5 development-tooling and community-health practices detected across 4 families in the upstream repository

Checks run against github.com/muntasirmasum/brfssdata on 2026-08-23.

Continuous integration (1)

GitHub Actions

Reproducibility and dev environment (1)

data-raw/

CRAN release process (1)

cran-comments.md

Lint, format, editor (2)

AirVS Code

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

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

15 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Depends (1)

R >= 4.2

Imports (9)

cli DBI duckdb jsonlite rlang srvyr (>= 1.0.0)tibbletoolsutils

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (8)

curl dplyr knitr rmarkdown spelling survey testthat withr

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

0direct

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Nothing depends on this yet.

Code & Tests

Datasets

People & History

People (1)

Maintainer (1)

Muntasir Masum

Author, Maintainer, Copyright holder

Authors (1)

Muntasir Masum

Author, Maintainer, Copyright holder

Copyright holders (1)

Muntasir Masum

Author, Maintainer, Copyright holder

Package Timeline

1 release. R releases are shown for context.

0.1.0Latest
2026-08-21 · current release
R
R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24

Package metadata

First published: 2026-08-21
Total releases: 1 / 1 yrs
License: MIT + file LICENSE OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 4.2
Bundled data: 1.7 KB / 2 files
Download size: 456 KB
Installed size: not tracked yet
With dependencies: not tracked yet

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("brfssdata")

Format

Masum, M. (2026). brfssdata: Access CDC Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System Data (Version 0.1.0) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.brfssdata

This is what citation() produces when a package has no citation file of its own. If it prints something else, use that.

Cite the R Observatory

For a number measured here: a download total, a coverage figure, an archival date.

Format

APA

Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for brfssdata version 0.1.0 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-08-26. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

From data release v2026-08-26, which the citation names so these numbers can be found later. More on citing and the projects behind them.

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