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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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