icd9 (version 1.3.1)

parseLeafDescriptionsVersion: read the ICD-9-CM description data as provided by the Center for Medicaid Services.

Description

ICD9-CM data unfortunately has no comma separation, so have to pre-process. Note that this canonical data doesn't specify non-diagnostic higher-level codes, just the specific diagnostic 'child' codes.

The file can be pulled from the zip files on the CMS web site or from within the package. Pulled data can be saved to the package development tree.

Usage

parseLeafDescriptionsVersion(version = getLatestBillableVersion(), save = FALSE, fromWeb = FALSE, verbose = FALSE)

Arguments

save
logical whether to attempt to re-save source files in inst
icd9path
path of the source data which is in /extddata in the installed package, but would be in inst/extdata in development tree.
path
Absolute path in which to save parsed data

Value

invisibly return the result