Download DATASUS territorial tables — datasus_get

Downloads and reads tables from the DATASUS territorial data section. The DATASUS FTP publishes a ZIP archive per year containing reference tables for municipalities, health regions, and other geographic divisions used by SUS, in CSV, DBF, and TXT formats.

Usage

datasus_get_territory(
  table = "tb_municip",
  year = NULL,
  format = "csv",
  cache_dir = NULL,
  verbose = TRUE
)

Arguments

table: Name of the table to read. Common values: "tb_municip" (municipalities), "tb_uf" (states), "tb_regsaud" (health regions), "tb_macsaud" (macro health regions), "tb_regiao" (geographic regions), "tb_micibge" (IBGE micro-regions), "tb_regmetr" (metropolitan regions), "tb_dsei" (indigenous health districts). Relationship tables start with "rl_" (e.g. "rl_municip_regsaud").
year: Year of the territorial table. Defaults to the current year. Use datasus_ftp_ls("ftp://ftp.datasus.gov.br/territorio/tabelas/") to see available years.
format: File format to extract from the ZIP: "csv" (default) or "dbf".
cache_dir: Optional cache directory.
verbose: Logical. Emit progress messages (default TRUE).

Value

A tibble with column names in snake_case.

Examples

# \donttest{
tryCatch({
  # Download territorial tables into tempdir() (network required).
  municipios <- datasus_get_territory(
    "tb_municip",
    cache_dir = tempdir(),
    verbose   = FALSE
  )
  ufs <- datasus_get_territory(
    "tb_uf",
    cache_dir = tempdir(),
    verbose   = FALSE
  )
}, error = function(e) message("FTP unavailable: ", conditionMessage(e)))
# }