dbcturbo: High-Performance Streaming Reader for 'DATASUS' DBC Files
A modern, memory-efficient R package for reading and converting
DBC files produced by the Brazilian Ministry of Health's 'DATASUS' system.
DBC files are DBF databases compressed with the 'PKWare' implode algorithm.
Unlike 'read.dbc', this package processes files in streaming mode, never
loading the full dataset into RAM. It can export directly to CSV or DBF
and provides R helpers for in-memory reading and Parquet conversion.
| Version: |
0.2.0 |
| Depends: |
R (≥ 4.0.0) |
| Suggests: |
data.table (≥ 1.14.0), arrow (≥ 12.0.0), testthat (≥
3.0.0), knitr, rmarkdown |
| Published: |
2026-10-10 |
| DOI: |
10.32614/CRAN.package.dbcturbo (may not be active yet) |
| Author: |
Gumercindo Pimentel Peralta
 [aut, cre],
Juliana da Silva
[ths],
Mark Adler [ctb] (Author of blast.c (PKWare implode decompressor)),
Daniela Petruzalek [ctb] (Author of read.dbc, dbc2dbf.c),
Pablo Fonseca [ctb] (Author of blast-dbf) |
| Maintainer: |
Gumercindo Pimentel Peralta <gumercindopimentel at gmail.com> |
| BugReports: |
https://github.com/GPimentel14/dbcturbo/issues |
| License: |
AGPL-3 |
| URL: |
https://github.com/GPimentel14/dbcturbo |
| NeedsCompilation: |
yes |
| SystemRequirements: |
C99 compiler |
| Citation: |
dbcturbo citation info |
| Materials: |
README, NEWS |
| CRAN checks: |
dbcturbo results |
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