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nhanes_search

Search the results from nhanes_variables or nhanes_data_files

Search the results from nhanes_variables or nhanes_data_files

nhanes_search(nhanes_data, query, ..., fuzzy = FALSE, ignore_case = TRUE,
  max_distance = 0.2)

`nhanes_data`	nhanes variable list, from nhanes_variables function, or data file list, from nhanes_data_files
`query`	regular expression search query
`...`	additional arguments to pass to dplyr::filter
`fuzzy`	whether to use fuzzy string matching for search (based on edit distances)
`ignore_case`	whether search query is case-sensitive
`max_distance`	parameter for tuning fuzzy string matching, 0-1

data frame filtered by search query

## Not run: 
nhanes_files <- nhanes_data_files()

# Search for data files about pesticides
nhanes_search(nhanes_files, "pesticides")

## End(Not run)

Facilitates Analysis of CDC NHANES Data

v1.1.0

Apache License 2.0 | file LICENSE

Authors

Herb Susmann [cre, aut], Silent Spring Institute [cph]

Initial release

2016-11-28