nhs_table_findeR {NHSDataDictionaRy}

nhs_table_findeR function

Description

This function uses the tableR parent function to return a table of elements, specifically from the NHS Data Dictionary

Usage

nhs_table_findeR(data_element_name, ...)

Arguments

data_element_name

The data element name from NHS Data Dictionation i.e. ACCOMMODATION STATUS CODE

...

Function forwarding to parent function to pass additional arguments to function (e.g. title, add_zero_prefix)

Value

A tibble (class data.frame) output from the results of the web scrape

• result - the extracted national HTML code table from the element page of the NHS Data Dictionary

• DictType - defaults to Not Specified if nothing passed, however allows for custom dictionary / data frame tags to be created

• DttmExtracted - a date and time stamp

Examples

#Returns a tibble from tableR parent function
nhs_table_findeR("ACCOMMODATION STATUS CODE", title="ACCOM_STATUS")
nhs_table_findeR("accommodation status code") #Changes case to match