Getting Started with the PicnicHealth R Package

PicnicHealth Package

This PicnicHealth package is has a small set of functions, to help you start looking through the data.

Installation

In order to install the Picnichealth Package you will need the latest version of R (v4+)

The PicnicHealth Package is available online through the PicnicHealth RStudio Package Manager. To install this package, you can run the following:

From R

options(repos = c(getOption("repos"),
                  PicnicRSPM = "https://rspm.picnichealth.com/github/latest"))

install.packages("PicnicHealth")

Using the package

Loading Package

You can load the PicnicHealth package similarly to other packages you typically use.

library(PicnicHealth)

Loading the PicnicHealth Dataset

Start off by loading the data set into a single object

data_set = load_data_set('path/to/data')

Once you have the dataset object, you may want to load each data table into your global environment.

list2env(data_set, env = .GlobalEnv)

Investigate Data

We provide functions to get you started with using PicnicHealth Data. Take a look at the Reference section for more information.