NHSRdatasets

0.3.0

NHS and Healthcare-Related Data for Education and Training

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Overview

About

Maintained by Chris MaineyFirst published 2019-08-034 releasesCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗

Free United Kingdom National Health Service (NHS) and other healthcare, or population health-related data for education and training purposes. This package contains synthetic data based on real healthcare datasets, or cuts of open-licenced official data. This package exists to support skills development in the NHS-R community: https://nhsrcommunity.com/.

Install

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

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

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

if (!requireNamespace("pak", quietly = TRUE))
  install.packages("pak", repos = "https://cloud.r-project.org/")
pak::pak("nhs-r-community/NHSRdatasets")

Development version from nhs-r-community/NHSRdatasets. Installs pak first if it is not already available.

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-nhsrdatasets

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-NHSRdatasets

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: 2.2 min · r-release-macos-x86_64

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Tests · ratio 0.00

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Coverage

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ERROR2026-06-08
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NOTE2026-03-10
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Documentation

READMEYes · 356 wordsVignettesYes · dynamicpkgdown siteNoNEWSYes · 100% structuredCode of conductNoContributing guideNo

Examples that run: 100%
Documented parameters: not tracked
Return-value docs: not tracked
References docs: 0%

Downloads

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Repository

GitHub ↗ nhs-r-community/nhsrdatasets

72Stars

26Forks

17Open issues

0Open PRs

5Releases

361Commits

16Contributors

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License CC0-1.0 · 361 commits · Last activity 2024-12-05 · +1.4% stars, 30d

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data-raw/

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cran-comments.md

Docs source (1)

README.Rmd

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Dependencies

Declared dependencies

22 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Depends (1)

R >= 3.5.0

Imports (1)

tibble

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none

Suggests (23)

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Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

2direct

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NHSRplotthedots runcharter

Code & Tests

Datasets

People & History

People (5)

Maintainer (1)

Chris Mainey

Author, Maintainer

Authors (4)

Chris Mainey

Author, Maintainer

Gary Hutson

Author · added in 0.3.0

Tom Jemmett

Author · added in 0.1.2

Zoë Turner

Author · added in 0.2.0

NHS-R community

Package Timeline

4 releases. Pick two to compare their code metrics. R releases are shown for context.

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R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
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R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11
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R 4.4.0 released · 2024-04-24
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R 4.3.0 released · 2023-04-21
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R 4.2.0 released · 2022-04-22
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R 4.1.0 released · 2021-05-18
0.3.0Latest
2021-03-14 · current release · diff ↗
0.2.0
2020-05-04 · diff ↗
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R 4.0.0 released · 2020-04-24
0.1.2
2019-09-27 · diff ↗
0.1.1
2019-08-03
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R 3.6.0 released · 2019-04-26

Package metadata

First published: 2019-08-03
Total releases: 4 / 7 yrs
License: CC0
Minimum R: ≥ 3.5.0
Bundled data: 155 KB / 5 files
Download size: 304 KB
Installed size: not tracked yet
With dependencies: not tracked yet

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