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[Jason Pickering <jason.p.pickering@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi again Tom,

As is the case in many tasks for R, there are numerous ways to do this. I
have used  the RODBC and RPostgreSQL  packages of R to retrieve data from
the DHIS2 database. Both of these are documented in the documentation. The
trick of course is that you must write the SQL to retrieve the data into an
R data frame.

Other ways might be to export the data as DXF or through the WebAPI and
then parse the XML in R.   CSV is another good option of course, which
DHIS2 supports in various modules, such as the report tables which can
export CSV directly.

Regards,
Jason




On Mon, May 21, 2012 at 5:50 AM, <hiattt@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>  What’s the best way to extract the DHIS data for further analysis, etc.
> in a statistical program like R? Is there a more automatic way to do it, or
> would I need to export the data manually in order to re-import it into R. I
> would have thought the API would do this, but it seems to only contain
> metadata as far as I can tell.****
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