R Observatory: Metrics for NHSDataDictionaRy version 1.2.5

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

NHSDataDictionaRy

1.2.5

NHS Data Dictionary Toolset for NHS Lookups

0packages depend

2.6Kdownloads / year

0.0%test coverage

11/13checks pass

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)Fedora (COPR)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

# enable the iucar/cran COPR if it is not already present, then install
ls /etc/yum.repos.d/*iucar*cran*.repo >/dev/null 2>&1 \
  || sudo dnf copr enable -y iucar/cran
sudo dnf install -y R-CRAN-NHSDataDictionaRy

RPMs from the iucar/cran COPR, rebuilt from CRAN.

For install.packages() integration in R, also: sudo dnf install R-CoprManager

# 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

Code health

Yes

Tests · ratio 0.01

0.0%

Coverage · measured lines

100%

Documentation · exports

8

Dependencies · direct

Check history

NOTE2026-03-10
12 OK · 2 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE

Documentation

READMENoVignettesYes · dynamicpkgdown siteNoNEWSYes · 33% structuredCode of conductNoContributing guideNo

Examples that run: 100%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 100%
References docs: 0%

Downloads

2.6K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #15,763 · ~7/day · ~215/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

18030 days

66890 days

2.6K1 year

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Also on96 r2u24 autocran

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)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

0direct

0indirect

Nothing depends on this yet.

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

R
R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
R
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
1.2.5Latest
2021-07-09 · current release · diff ↗
1.2.4
2021-06-21 · diff ↗
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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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citation("NHSDataDictionaRy")

Format

Hutson, G., Jemmett, T., & Polwart, C. (2021). NHSDataDictionaRy: NHS Data Dictionary Toolset for NHS Lookups (Version 1.2.5) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.NHSDataDictionaRy

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Format

APA

Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for NHSDataDictionaRy version 1.2.5 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-08-22. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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