A Curated Collection of Pulmonary and Respiratory Disease Datasets

Provides a comprehensive and curated collection of datasets related to the lungs, respiratory system, and associated diseases. This package includes epidemiological, clinical, experimental, and simulated datasets on conditions such as lung cancer, asthma, Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD), tuberculosis, whooping cough, pneumonia, influenza, and other respiratory illnesses. It is designed to support data exploration, statistical modeling, teaching, and research in pulmonary medicine, public health, environmental epidemiology, and respiratory disease surveillance.

PulmoDataSets

The PulmoDataSets package offers a thematically rich and diverse collection of datasets focused on the lungs, respiratory system, and associated diseases. It includes data related to chronic respiratory conditions such as asthma, chronic bronchitis, and COPD, as well as infectious diseases like tuberculosis, pneumonia, influenza, and whooping cough.

Installation

You can install the PulmoDataSets package from CRAN with the following R function:

install.packages("PulmoDataSets")

Load the Package

library(PulmoDataSets)

Dataset Suffixes

Each dataset in the PulmoDataSets package uses a suffix to denote the type of R object:

• _df: data frame

• _dt: data table

• _tbl_df: tibble

• _ts: time series

Example Datasets

Below are selected example datasets included in the PulmoDataSets package:

• bronchitis_Cardiff_df: Chronic Bronchitis in Cardiff Men.

• smoking_UK_tbl_df: UK Smoking Habits.

• nicotine_gum_df: Nicotine Gum and Smoking Cessation.

Example Code:

# Load the package

library(PulmoDataSets)

# List all datasets in the package

view_datasets_PulmoDataSets()

# Load dataset

data(nicotine_gum_df)

# Preview the dataset

head(nicotine_gum_df)

# Open in Viewer

View(nicotine_gum_df)