NHSDataDictionaRy

1.2.5

NHS Data Dictionary Toolset for NHS Lookups

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Overview

About

Maintained by Gary HutsonFirst published 2021-01-257 releasesCRAN page ↗

Providing a common set of simplified web scraping tools for working with the NHS Data Dictionary https://datadictionary.nhs.uk/data_elements_overview.html. 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 https://nhsrcommunity.com/ to provide this consistency of lookups. The OpenSafely lookups have now been added https://www.opencodelists.org/docs/.

Install

R (CRAN)Ubuntu (r2u)openSUSE (OBS)

install.packages("NHSDataDictionaRy", repos = "https://cloud.r-project.org/")

Installs the current CRAN release. Prebuilt binaries on Windows and macOS.

Release

# enable cranapt (r2u) if it is not already set up, then install
grep -rqs r2u.stat.illinois.edu /etc/apt/sources.list /etc/apt/sources.list.d/ \
  || curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/eddelbuettel/r2u/master/inst/scripts/add_cranapt_noble.sh | sudo bash
sudo apt install -y r-cran-nhsdatadictionary

Fast Ubuntu binaries via r2u (no compilation). The cranapt setup runs once and is skipped when it is already enabled.

bspm (used by r2u) also needs make: sudo apt install make

# add the autoCRAN OBS repo (Tumbleweed) if it is missing, then install
zypper -q lr | grep -qi autoCRAN \
  || sudo zypper addrepo https://download.opensuse.org/repositories/devel:/languages:/R:/autoCRAN/openSUSE_Tumbleweed/devel:languages:R:autoCRAN.repo
sudo zypper install -y R-NHSDataDictionaRy

RPMs auto-built from CRAN on openSUSE OBS (Tumbleweed).

Health

CRAN checks

2NOTE11OK

Failing flavors

NOTE r-devel-linux-x86_64-fedora-clang
NOTE r-devel-linux-x86_64-fedora-gcc

Slowest check: 1.8 min · r-oldrel-macos-x86_64

Check history

NOTE2026-03-10
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Dependencies

Declared dependencies

11 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Depends (0)

none

Imports (8)

xml2 dplyr magrittr rvest stringr purrr tibble httr

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (3)

knitr rmarkdown spelling

Enhances (0)

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Code & Tests

People & History

People (3)

Maintainer (1)

Gary Hutson

Author, Maintainer

Authors (3)

Gary Hutson

Author, Maintainer

Tom Jemmett

Author · added in 1.2.4

Calum Polwart

Author · added in 1.2.2

Package Timeline

7 releases. R releases are shown for context.

R
R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
R
R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11
R
R 4.4.0 released · 2024-04-24
R
R 4.3.0 released · 2023-04-21
R
R 4.2.0 released · 2022-04-22
1.2.5Latest
2021-07-09 · current release · diff ↗
1.2.4
2021-06-21 · diff ↗
R
R 4.1.0 released · 2021-05-18
1.2.3
2021-05-05 · diff ↗
unarchivedReturned to CRAN
2021-05-05
archivedRemoved from CRAN
2021-03-31
policy violation On Internet access, repeatedly
1.2.2
2021-03-30 · diff ↗
1.2.1
2021-02-17 · diff ↗
1.2.0
2021-02-02 · diff ↗
0.1.2
2021-01-25
R
R 4.0.0 released · 2020-04-24

Package metadata

First published: 2021-01-25
Total releases: 7 / 5 yrs
License: MIT + file LICENSE OSI
Download size: 155 KB
Installed size: not tracked yet
With dependencies: not tracked yet

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