Catalogue of CIHI open data-table workbooks (with Wayback fallbacks)

Returns the bundled catalogue of the public data-table .xlsx workbooks published on the Canadian Institute for Health Information (CIHI) “Access data and reports > Data tables” page (https://www.cihi.ca/en/access-data-and-reports/data-tables). Each row carries the table title, its direct url, and a wayback_url snapshot on the Internet Archive so the table stays retrievable even if CIHI rotates or removes the live file.

Usage

cihitbls(archonly = FALSE)

Source

Canadian Institute for Health Information, Data tables (https://www.cihi.ca/en/access-data-and-reports/data-tables). Snapshotted to the Internet Archive (https://web.archive.org). Catalogue current as of 2026-07.

Arguments

archonly

If TRUE, drop rows with no Wayback snapshot. Default FALSE (return the full catalogue).

Value

A data.frame with columns title, url, wayback_url.

Details

Download any row with cihiget(), which tries url first and falls back to wayback_url. The Wayback snapshots were resolved with rmoriebricklayer::wbsnpurl().

Examples

# Full catalogue: title, live url, Wayback snapshot url.
cat <- cihitbls()
nrow(cat)
#> [1] 232
names(cat)
#> [1] "title"           "url"             "format"          "wayback_url"    
#> [5] "retrieved"       "source_page_url" "license"        
head(cat$title, 3)
#> [1] "Injury and Trauma Emergency Department and Hospitalization Statistics, 2024–2025"
#> [2] "Wait Times for Priority Procedures in Canada, 2008 to 2025 — Data Tables"        
#> [3] "Health Workforce in Canada, 2024 — Quick Stats"                                  

# `archonly = TRUE` keeps only rows that have a Wayback snapshot,
# i.e. tables still retrievable if CIHI rotates the live file.
arch <- cihitbls(archonly = TRUE)
nrow(arch) # <= nrow(cat)
#> [1] 218
all(nzchar(arch$wayback_url)) # TRUE
#> [1] TRUE

# Find a table by keyword before fetching it.
cat$title[grepl("hospital", cat$title, ignore.case = TRUE)][1:3]
#> [1] "Injury and Trauma Emergency Department and Hospitalization Statistics, 2024–2025"
#> [2] "Hospital Beds, 2024–2025"                                                        
#> [3] "Inpatient Hospitalization, Surgery and Newborn Statistics, 2024-2025"