About this 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 and 2015 datasets, imported to R as a data.frame, to facilitate use of the data in R. The source of the original data is documented here: countyhealthrankings.org/about-project -- I obtained the data 3/27/2015 and slightly modified it to provide 5-digit FIPS as a character field, and the State 2-character abbreviation field renamed as ST.

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Installation and Related Packages

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")