ipedals is designed to simplify access to IPEDS, the Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System from the U.S. Department of Education's National Center for Education Statistics.
You can install the released version of ipedals from GitHub with:
remotes::install_github("associatedpress/ipedals")
library(ipedals)
hd2016 <- ipedals::ipeds_table("HD2016")
hd2016$table
hd2016$variables
hd2016$codebook