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Intoduction to ukhsadatR

Intoduction to ukhsadatR

Introduction

The ukhsadatR package provides easy access to UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) data via their API.

Example

Below demonstrates how to retrieve daily reported COVID-19 cases at the national level for England:

library(ukhsadatR)

get_data(
  theme = "infectious_disease",
  sub_theme = "respiratory",
  topic = "COVID-19",
  geography_type = "Nation",
  geography = "England",
  metric = "COVID-19_cases_casesByDay"
) |> 
  head()
#>                theme   sub_theme    topic geography_type geography
#> 1 infectious_disease respiratory COVID-19         Nation   England
#> 2 infectious_disease respiratory COVID-19         Nation   England
#> 3 infectious_disease respiratory COVID-19         Nation   England
#> 4 infectious_disease respiratory COVID-19         Nation   England
#> 5 infectious_disease respiratory COVID-19         Nation   England
#> 6 infectious_disease respiratory COVID-19         Nation   England
#>   geography_code                    metric metric_group stratum sex age year
#> 1      E92000001 COVID-19_cases_casesByDay        cases default all all 2020
#> 2      E92000001 COVID-19_cases_casesByDay        cases default all all 2020
#> 3      E92000001 COVID-19_cases_casesByDay        cases default all all 2020
#> 4      E92000001 COVID-19_cases_casesByDay        cases default all all 2020
#> 5      E92000001 COVID-19_cases_casesByDay        cases default all all 2020
#> 6      E92000001 COVID-19_cases_casesByDay        cases default all all 2020
#>   month epiweek       date metric_value in_reporting_delay_period
#> 1     1       5 2020-01-30            1                     FALSE
#> 2     1       5 2020-01-31            0                     FALSE
#> 3     2       5 2020-02-01            0                     FALSE
#> 4     2       5 2020-02-02            1                     FALSE
#> 5     2       6 2020-02-03           18                     FALSE
#> 6     2       6 2020-02-04            0                     FALSE

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