brfssdata: Access CDC Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System Data

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.

Version:	0.1.0
Depends:	R (≥ 4.2)
Imports:	cli, DBI, duckdb (≥ 1.5.5), jsonlite, rlang, srvyr (≥ 1.0.0), tibble, tools, utils
Suggests:	curl, dplyr, knitr, rmarkdown, spelling, survey, testthat, withr
Published:	2026-08-21
DOI:	10.32614/CRAN.package.brfssdata (may not be active yet)
Author:	Muntasir Masum [aut, cre, cph]
Maintainer:	Muntasir Masum <muntasir.1124 at gmail.com>
BugReports:	https://github.com/muntasirmasum/brfssdata/issues
License:	MIT + file LICENSE
URL:	https://muntasirmasum.github.io/brfssdata/, https://github.com/muntasirmasum/brfssdata
NeedsCompilation:	no
Language:	en-US
Citation:	brfssdata citation info
Materials:	README, NEWS
CRAN checks:	brfssdata results

Documentation:

Reference manual:	brfssdata.html , brfssdata.pdf
Vignettes:	Getting started with brfssdata (source, R code)

Downloads:

Package source:	brfssdata_0.1.0.tar.gz
Windows binaries:	r-devel: not available, r-release: not available, r-oldrel: not available
macOS binaries:	r-release (arm64): brfssdata_0.1.0.tgz, r-oldrel (arm64): brfssdata_0.1.0.tgz, r-release (x86_64): brfssdata_0.1.0.tgz, r-oldrel (x86_64): not available

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