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NHSDataDictionaRy (version 1.2.5)

NHS Data Dictionary Toolset for NHS Lookups

Description

Providing a common set of simplified web scraping tools for working with the NHS Data Dictionary . The intended usage is to access the data elements section of the NHS Data Dictionary to access key lookups. The benefits of having it in this package are that the lookups are the live lookups on the website and will not need to be maintained. This package was commissioned by the NHS-R community to provide this consistency of lookups. The OpenSafely lookups have now been added .

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Install

install.packages('NHSDataDictionaRy')

Monthly Downloads

202

Version

1.2.5

License

MIT + file LICENSE

Maintainer

Gary Hutson

Last Published

July 9th, 2021

Functions in NHSDataDictionaRy (1.2.5)

len_xl

len_xl function
xpathTextR

xpathTextR function
right_xl

right_xl function
openSafely_listR

openSafely_listR function
scrapeR

ScrapeR - scrape web information with scrapeR
tableR

tableR function
mid_xl

mid_xl function
linkScrapeR

linkScrapeR
left_xl

left_xl function This function replicates the LEFT function in Excel and is utilised for left trimming of character strings
nhs_data_elements

NHS data elements method
nhs_table_findeR

nhs_table_findeR function