openSafely_listR {NHSDataDictionaRy}

openSafely_listR function

Description

This function uses the tableR parent function to return a table of elements, specifically from the OpenSafely Code List https://www.opencodelists.org/

Usage

openSafely_listR(list_name, version = "", ...)

Arguments

list_name

The code list ID from https://www.opencodelists.org/ for which to return the National table of elements, for example "opensafely/ace-inhibitor-medications"

version

The version of the code list if not the most recent

...

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

• type - the OpenSafely type

• id - the id for the OpenSafely element

• bnf_code - British National Formulary - NICE guidelines code

• nm - medicine type, dosage and manufacturer

• Dict_type - title specified for dictionary

• DttmExtracted - the date and time the code set was extracted

Examples

openSafely_listR("opensafely/ace-inhibitor-medications")
#Pull back current list
openSafely_listR("opensafely/ace-inhibitor-medications", "2020-05-19")
#Pull back list with date