Download, Parse, and Analyze NHANES Data with Mortality Linkage R package nhanesR version 0.1.6 Provides tools for downloading and organizing National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES) public-use data files and the National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS) Public-Use Linked Mortality Files (LMF). Supports structured local caching, codebook access, survey-aware merging, and preparation of survival analysis datasets using NHANES-National Death Index (NDI) linked mortality data (follow-up through December 31, 2019). NHANES methodology is described at <https://wwwn.cdc.gov/nchs/nhanes/Default.aspx>. Software Depends: R (>= 4.1.0) Imports: httr2 (>= 1.0.0), haven (>= 2.5.0), readr (>= 2.1.0), rlang (>= 1.1.0), cli (>= 3.6.0), tools Suggests: foreign, survey, survival, rvest, Hmisc, testthat (>= 3.0.0), knitr, rmarkdown David Winsemius <dwinsemius@comcast.net> Comprehensive R Archive Network (CRAN) David Winsemius [aut, cre] MIT + file LICENSE (https://CRAN.R-project.org/package=nhanesR/LICENSE) 2026-08-25 application/tgz https://CRAN.R-project.org/package=nhanesR doi:10.32614/CRAN.package.nhanesR en-US