Download ANVISA Data

Downloads and returns data from the ANVISA (Agencia Nacional de Vigilancia Sanitaria) open data portal. Supports 14 data types across 4 categories: product registrations, reference tables, post-market surveillance, and controlled substance sales (SNGPC).

Usage

anvisa_data(
  type = "medicines",
  year = NULL,
  month = NULL,
  vars = NULL,
  cache = TRUE,
  cache_dir = NULL,
  lazy = FALSE,
  backend = c("arrow", "duckdb")
)

Arguments

type

Character. Type of data to download. Default: "medicines". Use anvisa_types() to see all 14 available types.

Snapshot types (no year/month needed): "medicines", "medical_devices", "food", "cosmetics", "sanitizers", "tobacco", "pesticides", "hemovigilance", "technovigilance", "vigimed_notifications", "vigimed_medicines", "vigimed_reactions".

Time-series types (year required): "sngpc", "sngpc_compounded".

year

Integer. Year(s) of the data. Only used for SNGPC types (2014-2026). Ignored with a warning for snapshot types.

month

Integer. Month(s) 1-12. Only used for SNGPC types. If NULL (default), downloads all 12 months. Ignored with a warning for snapshot types.

vars

Character vector. Variables to keep. If NULL (default), returns all available variables. Use anvisa_variables() to see available variables per type.

cache

Logical. If TRUE (default), caches downloaded data for faster future access.

cache_dir

Character. Directory for caching. Default: tools::R_user_dir("healthbR", "cache").

lazy

Logical. If TRUE, returns a lazy query object instead of a tibble. Only available for SNGPC types (partitioned cache). Requires the arrow package. Default: FALSE.

backend

Character. Backend for lazy evaluation: "arrow" (default) or "duckdb". Only used when lazy = TRUE.

Value

A tibble with ANVISA data. SNGPC types include year and month partition columns.

Details

Data is downloaded from the ANVISA open data portal at https://dados.anvisa.gov.br/dados/.

Snapshot types: Download a single CSV file representing the current state of the registry/database. No time dimension. Cached as flat files.

SNGPC types: Monthly CSV files with controlled substance sales data. Data available from January 2014 to October 2021, with new data from January 2026. Cached as Hive-style partitioned parquet datasets.

The three VigiMed types share the IDENTIFICACAO_NOTIFICACAO key for linking notifications, medicines, and reactions.

See also

anvisa_types() for available types, anvisa_variables() for variable descriptions.

Other anvisa: anvisa_cache_status(), anvisa_clear_cache(), anvisa_info(), anvisa_types(), anvisa_variables()

Examples

if (FALSE) { # interactive()
# registered medicines
med <- anvisa_data(type = "medicines")

# hemovigilance notifications
hemo <- anvisa_data(type = "hemovigilance")

# SNGPC controlled substance sales, Jan 2020
sngpc <- anvisa_data(type = "sngpc", year = 2020, month = 1)
}